Nowadays increasing the efficiency of using modern technologies is one of the main priorities of the development of higher professional education. The development of technologies, informatization of society requires changes in the professional training of future marine specialists in the formation of their professional competencies. The strategic goal of the development of higher education institutions is the continuous improvement of the information infrastructure, resulting in the development of a higher educational institution. The article is devoted to the questions of pedagogical information infrastructure formation in the higher marine educational institution. The approaches to the definition of "information infrastructure" of the higher educational institution, components, features of the formation and functioning of the structure are analyzed. The purpose of the creation of information pedagogical infrastructure-the availability to information resources and services through the improvement of the quality of educational information is identified. In the context of the identified problems in the article the processes of creating a pedagogical information infrastructure in the system of higher maritime education are disclosed. The experience of using pedagogical information infrastructure in the Kherson State Maritime Academy on the example of "Virtual-Real Ship" is presented. The article describes the tasks, the main components of the pedagogical information infrastructure. An example of the use of the electronic environment, LMS Moodle, shows the possibility of developing, creating and implementing a unified system that combines electronic courses and simulators, contains a mechanism for obtaining knowledge and its evaluation. It is shown that the creation of a pedagogical information infrastructure in order to form the professional competencies of future marine specialists is a powerful and promising mechanism in higher marine education. The article concludes that the problem of creating the informational pedagogical infrastructure of a higher maritime educational institution is very relevant and requires an integrated approach and a priority solution to the development of society's digitization.