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The purpose of the paper is to present the issues relating to methods of transport and commercial process management and support in logistics. Moreover, it will describe shipping actions in relation to the conflicts in Europe and worldwide. The study follows the work plan described as follows: The first chapter comprises an overview, logistics function, and classification of strategies in a logistics project. The second chapter includes information about the review and selection of methods of logistics project management. The third chapter pertains to the application of solutions restoring an old form of value stream mapping, known as the brown book exercise or the brown paper method. The fourth chapter refers to the aspects and solutions used in logistics project management in the hard times of logistic service market operations. Finally, the fifth chapter specifies the forms of trust management as the methods supporting logistics project management.

Marine passenger ports are integrated into the transport systems of cities and regions today. If there are sufficient developed mathematical forecasting models in the class of polynomial models, probability series, and a number of others, then the models describing the influence of the external environment on ferry market are not sufficient. The developed scheme of interaction between the participants of the cruise market and the mathematical model of the port as a technical system is presented in this research. The article substantiates new purposes to use the logistic function to assess the external environment. A mathematical model and the derivation of the new basic equation of the logistic function for ferry market are given. Analytical data werecollected on the ports and terminals of the Adriatic Sea and the Baltic Sea,and data were selected of ship calls at the passenger port St. Petersburg “Marine Facade”(2019-2020). The article proposes the consideration of new various proportionality factors thatwill determine the demand for cruise transportation modeling in the short-term forecasting interval. A complete mathematical model is given taking into account the real schedule of the sea passenger port. The logistic function proposed in the article allows us to solve the forecasting problem in a new way in relation to the selection and evaluation of a cruise product. Moreover, it allows us to solve a group of economic problems related to promotion problem for particular cruise product on the market, allows us to evaluate the activity of passengers when they are choosing a cruise product, and allows us to make adjustments to the planned port working schedules and to make timely adjustments. The main advantage of the proposed model is an analytical assessment of the effect of the external environment, both on passenger ports and on ferry and cruise companies.

Among the traditional determinants, transport infrastructures affect directly and significantly the territorial attractiveness of the foreign direct investment in the host countries. The increasing importance of this new determinant is essentially due to the great causal relationship with several other factors such as the territorial management in the host country. The aim of the present paper is to evaluate the importance of transport infrastructures to develop the territorial attractiveness of the developing countries to the multinational firms through their contribution to developing the territorial management and to enhance the quality of the private investment conditions. To do this, we have used a panel data model for 27 developing countries over the period between 1990 and 2014. The results prove that the transport infrastructures affect positively and significantly the territorial attractiveness by the positive influence on the territorial management. Also, the results indicate that the impact of these infrastructures on the territorial management, subsequently on the FDI attractiveness, becomes more important in presence of a good logistics function.