Abstract
The article identifies major problems of the development of the automotive industry in Ukraine in 2010-2015, such as: catastrophic decrease of the production volume of cars, trucks and buses; reduction of the production capacity of automotive industry enterprises; loss of the competitiveness of the domestic automakers on the national automobiles market; increase of the dependence of automakers from borrowed funds; prevailing unprofitability of automakers and bankruptcy of some of them. Nowadays the only way to preserve the Ukrainian automotive industry is an active state protectionism of the development of the automotive industry as a strategically important sector of the national economy.
Highlights
Automotive industry is the important part of the mechanical engineering in Ukraine
Creation of one workplace in enterprises of the automotive industry entails the creation of six workplaces in the related industries» (Concept of the state target economic program of the passenger car industry development for the period until 2020)
The discovered peculiarities indicate the urgent need for state regulation of development of the automotive industry in Ukraine
Summary
Automotive industry is the important part of the mechanical engineering in Ukraine. According to the «Concept of the state target economic program of the passenger car industry development for the period until 2020» «...vehicle production in Ukraine provides the high level of the added value (over 70 percent), generates the demand for goods and services of the related industries enterprises (production of metal, plastics, car windows, chemicals, etc.) and promotes the research activity. The information base of research is the statistical data the Ukrainian motor vehicle manufacturers association «UkrAvtoprom» and Agency for infrastructure development of the stock market in Ukraine «SMIDA». About company) one of the most dynamic enterprises in Ukraine, combines the capacity to produce buses and trolley buses, cars, trucks and commercial vehicles, and has its own extensive retail and service network. The main products are the small class buses «Dolphin», Chaz Baz and Baz. Member of Etalon Corporation * compiled by the authors based on Official web-portals of JSC «ZAZ», BOGDAN Corporation, SKODA in Solomonovo, JSC PA «KrASZ», PJSC «AutoKrAZ», PJSC «BAZ», PAT «Chasivoyarski avtobusy», PJSC «Chernihiv autoplant», JSC «Cherkassy bus». The dynamics of the production volume of the cars, trucks and buses in Ukraine in 2010-2015 years are represented on Figures 1-3. In the analyzed period Ukrainian automakers mostly lost their competitive position in the cars and trucks market (Table 3)
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