摘要： The paper deals with the results of the scientific discussion on the management of the complementary development of the adjacent territories to river freight. The main purpose is to substantiate the nature and directions of implementing the river transport potential in the country's logistics system by applying the concept of complementary development of the economy of port regions, focusing on the development of river ports as nodes of the country's logistics system. The relevance of the study is that the factors of radical growth of demand for inland waterway transportation from businesses and the state require a corresponding reorientation of logistics for many sectors of the economy, especially from the riparian territories. The research of the problems of river freight transportation сoncerning dimensional and functional economy restructuring of Ukraine's regions within logistics concept is carried out in the following logical sequence: the evaluation of the ability of river transport to form a direct and multiplicative effect of logistics, generated by gross regional product and export processes in the country's port regions; clustering of areas adjacent to river ports based on development potential (Gross Regional Product and exports); confirmation of the division of regions according to the mathematical algorithm of hierarchical clustering of adjacent regions; the evaluation of investment attractiveness of the country's port regions; managing the intensification of the impact of river transport for the development of surrounding areas; the evaluation of the potential of multiplier effect at the system of management of the river ports complementary development. The mathematical algorithm of hierarchical clustering of port regions using the SPSS software system and the heuristic approach to their structure (by author's method of forming clusters based on the contribution of river transport to the formation of the direct and multiplicative effect of logistics: formed GRP and export processes in the port regions of the country). The subject of the study is the port regions. The evaluation results of the contribution of river freight transport for the economy of the adjacent territories conducted based on regression analysis and analysis of the intensity of river transport use during 2007-2016 period, showed that river transport is not a market-forming factor of development of the adjacent territories. The results of the study can be useful for the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine, administration of river ports, logistics operators, business in port regions, other participants of the market of water transportation in the process of prioritization of the goals of combined freight transportation
关键词：logistics; regional development; river transport; port regions; territorial structure of Ukrainian; complementary development
