COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES OF TRANSPORT LOGISTICS OF THE REGIONAL GRAIN MARKET
The article deals with the place of transport logistics in the system of specialization of the region, territorial labor division and the grain business export potential. It examines the competitive advantages in relation to territorial and environmental factors, production, business, and grain market, the role of these factors in raising the economic efficiency of grain business, taking into account rapidly changing conditions in domestic and global markets. It gives details of the competitive advantages of the port transit segment of the Krasnodar region on the grain major sea carriers example. Effective use of the strong sides of land and sea components of the grain transit will help to further successful integration of the region grain business into the global economics system, it will increase the regional grain production competitiveness. The grain transit schemes improving process should be built taking into account optimization of the delivery channels, excluding parasitic mediators, motivate all participants on the final result according to the criterion of profit which is received not due to the increase in tariff rates, but by providing diverse services, enhancing productivity, introducing of specialization and specific transport costs reducing. It is also proposed to reduce transport costs during the grain transit to domestic and foreign markets due to the capabilities of specialized logistical centers, to organize transport corridors for the grain delivery on their base