The current state of maritime logistics of international transport corridors in the Black Sea-Caspian region

In today's rapidly changing world, in which there is a gradual transition to a multipolar world order, the development of the economic power of States – the world's centers of power – and the intensification of trade relations between them are becoming increasingly important. Taking into account the concentration of a significant part of the world's production capacities in rapidly developing Asian countries, primarily in China and India, i.e. in the east and south of the Eurasian continent, and the consumer market mainly in the west and north of the continent, in Europe, logistics transit communications are of particular importance, running both from east to west and from north to south, and in the opposite directions. In these conditions, the Black Sea-Caspian region, due to various geopolitical and economic factors, becomes the most important structural element of the world space, where the main interethnic transport corridors pass and intersect. The Russian Federation, due to its advantageous territorial location, occupies a unique transit position, including in the region of the Black and Caspian Seas under consideration. The current state, existing problems and prospects for the development of logistics routes in the North – South and West – East directions have been widely considered separately in numerous domestic and foreign scientific studies. Recently there has been a significant intensification of the formation and development of alternative cargo transportation routes in the above-mentioned directions, especially the maritime component of transport logistics, bypassing Russia, such as the European-Caucasian-Asian transport corridor (EUCAASTC). Due to the intensification of competition in the redistribution of cargo flows between individual countries of the Black Sea-Caspian region, the current state and existing problematic issues of maritime logistics of international transport corridors passing through the region are considered. There is an urgent need to form and expand a competitive domestic segment of the maritime logistics of transnational transport communications, primarily the port infrastructure, taking into account the specifics of the economic development of the region and the main directions of development of transit corridors, depending on current geopolitical trends.