Lesnik O. The Principles of Organization and the Methods of Activities for Ports on Attracting Cargo Flows in a CompetitiveEnvironment.

The task of enhancing the effectiveness of use port productive capacity in the conditions of competition for cargo flows is solved in the Thesis. A system of measures for attracting cargo flows to ports based on the results of analysis of forming trends of port development is proposed Logistic principles of the organization of production activities are taken as its basis.Definitely, it makes sense for the port to be engaged primarily in those cargo flows that are best suited to its technical and operational characteristics. A complex of mathematical models realized with the account of various levels of planning and degree of adequacy to the processes described is proposed for making a choice of optimal cargo flows. Various optimization criteria for the task of choosing cargo flows are substantiated and formalized.