LOGISTICS AND ORGANIZATION OF TRANSPORT OF THE PORT RAILWAY AT THE PRESENT STAGE
The development of the transportation service in mixed international transport through seaports has been considered. An assessment of the current state of the seaports' cargo turnover and the Russian Railways was carried out, as well as a comparative analysis of the ports' operation of basins of the Russian Federation. It is given that the regression dependence of the Russian Railways revenues on the range of the transportation service and the structure of cargo turnover in relation to the level of the transported goods profitability, the quantitative assessment of the ports' role in the southern Russia and the port of the North Caucasus Railway in transportation service in international traffic. Special attention is paid to the problems of the cargo turnover development, the analysis of negative factors affecting the growth of traffic volume and cargo turnover of the southern ports. An analysis was carried out of the factors contributing to the non-stability and stability of the cargo flows to seaports and mixed transport. It has been shown that digital technologies, in conditions of limited investment in transport infra-structure, are the main direction of the transport industry's development.