Impact of Integration Process for Development of Economic Agents

Global economy, national economic systems, regions and industries, business-structures have advantages, taking part in integration processes. The aim of the article is to study the influence of integration processes of different levels on the results of economic agent’s development. The dialectical method allowed to investigate the definition of the integration and the integration process. The method of system analysis was used to study the development of integration associations. The system-structural method helped to study basic measures to the development of the integration process in the state economic system and its components. The positive and sometimes the negative integration effects are systematized. Integration processes are investigated in different levels. Development trends of integration activities in the field of maritime transport are identified in the article. The trends in the development of integration activities in the maritime transport as a structure-forming sphere of the national economy of Ukraine are identified in the article.