The organizational and economic mechanism of competitiveness of the seaport region: methodology of formation and tools of realization

The aim of the article. The modern trends of the development of the marine economy demonstrate the increasing competition in the maritime transport market. Therefore, the port is the point of economic growth and strategic advantage in the region. It creates the additional competitive advantages for businesses, the region's economy and society. The aim of this study is to support the organizational-economic mechanism of competitiveness of the maritime port in the region. It will create the conditions for the effective use of its competitive advantage. The results of the analysis. Several tasks were solved: the contemporary approaches to the identification of the principles to ensure the regulatory influences; the justification of the restrictive and incentive-based methods. The competitive tools are offered, including the port special economic zones, integration, concession, public-privatepartnership, port-industrial clusters. It was formalized the organizational-economic mechanism of the competitiveness of the seaport of the region. The necessity of assessing of the competitiveness of the port of the region was considered. A function of a freight transshipment complex and the supply chain were offered. The scientific innovation is the development of the scientific-theoretical foundations of the organizational-economic mechanism of the competitiveness of the maritime port in the region. Conclusions and directions of further researches. The author considers the important scientific and applied tasks of the development of the competitive advantages of the port. The effective use of the internal capacity in the region is shown. The organizational-economic mechanism of the competitiveness is submitted in the scientific work. It is based on the study of the modern theories of competition. The organizational-economic mechanism of the competitiveness forms the basis of the process, marketing and clustered. The role of the port in the region as part of the infrastructure and logistics system is considered.