TRANSFORMATION OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN SEAPORTS OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The article covers changes of direction in development of the maritime management complex of Ukraine. The need for a comprehensive study of specific stages of seaports development is due to the fact that maritime ports are an integral part of the transport and industrial infrastructure of the state since they are located on the routes of international transport corridors. The European integration of Ukraine and activation of its transit influence enhancing the quality of services of the maritime management complex. By the adoption of the Law of Ukraine “On the Seaports of Ukraine”, there were significant changes in the public administration of the maritime industry, which remain in force to this day. The methodological basis of the research is formed by a system of general scientific and special legal methods of scientific knowledge (historical, dialectical, analysis and synthesis, scientific abstraction, forecasting). Based on the study of scientific works on the public management theory and the public administration, the author’s definition of the category “public administration” in the maritime industry at the stage of transformation has been formulated. Aspects of management have been analyzed, tasks and functions have been revised in accordance with European standards and best management practices; critical factors for the successful administration of the port sector of Ukraine have been identified. It was pointed out, that nowadays the Ukrainian maritime industry has a unique opportunity to create its own port management model based on the European “port-landlord” management pattern. It was emphasized, that there is a need for a seminal work in the direction of changing national legislation, a significant change in the approach, not only in planning the development of ports, but also a binding development implementation through the application of a direct rule on prosecution for failure to comply with strategic documents on the development of the industry. Fostering the emergence of an approach for determining the direction of public administration development of the maritime industry at the stage of changes involves solving the following issues: withdrawal of land administration from the public sector; optimization of managerial decision making; adoption of the institution for the implementation of plans for the development of ports and the responsibility for the execution of those tasks.