Review article

Increasing competitiveness of the Baltic Sea Region ports is becoming one of priority tasks of the state in conditions of the world globalization and integration of Russia into the international transport community. For the purpose of complete implementation of the transport and transit capacity of the Baltic Sea Region ports, it is proposed to create a cluster in the form of a multiport multimodal system of the Leningrad Region. Economic assessment of the efficiency of such cluster initiative implementation is carried out according to the technique of financial and economic project evaluation of investment within the «Development of the Transport System of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region till 2020» program.