Associate Professor of the Department of economics and marketing of the Academic Institute of Spatial Planning and Advanced Technologies of the Lviv Polytechnic National University
The article deals with the general tendencies and problems of the development of the Ukrainian coal industry in recent years. The main reasons for the problems and reduction of coal production in Ukraine due to the corresponding exhaustion of stocks as a result of long-term exploitation of coal mining enterprises are outlined. In addition, the unsatisfactory condition of the main equipment of the mines and its high level of deterioration and low rates of restoration of fixed assets are determined. The pace of investment and innovation processes in the coal industry of Ukraine today does not correspond to real needs and opportunities for increasing of coal production. The reformation and restructuring of coalmining enterprises is far behind the planned state program measures, including privatization processes, attracting private investment, improving approaches to management, closing unprofitable loss-making mines and building new prospective mines. The article highlights prospective directions of increasing coal mining, both operating mines and the possibility of building new explored reserves of energy and coking coal, in particular, in the Lviv-Volyn coal basin. The main reasons for the unprofitability of coal enterprises, untimely payment of wages to miners, problems of investment and innovation development of the coal industry are outlined. The complexity of the processes of voluntary association of communities in coal regions in the framework of the decentralization reform consists in the presence of environmental problems and the future closure of coal mining enterprises, negatively affecting the overall economic potential of the future united territorial communities. The paper proves that the strategic development of the united territorial communities in the areas of coal deposits (on the example of the Lviv region) is closely connected to the presence of coal mining enterprises there and the construction of new mines there. Strategic directions of innovative development of Ukraine's coal industry, the principles of reform and restructuring of the coal enterprises are defined.
coal industry, coal products, coal enterprises, financial and economic status of coal enterprises, investment and innovation development
The article researches certain aspects of preparation and holding of international project regarding hosting the final games of 2012 European Football Championships in Ukraine, which concerns various spheres of national economic activity: construction, various services, security, communications, logistics, etc. The problems of current condition of infrastructural objects constructed or renovated for Euro 2012 are outlined, analysis of their impact on the development of regional economy is conducted, and capacity created to hold the Championships and still used at the territories and in the branches according to its functions is evaluated. Hosting the 2012 European Football Championships in Ukraine, which was one of the first international events of the kind, has successfully ended. However, there is still the range of unsolved problems, which turn out to be more urgent as the time passes. They slow down the dynamic development of enterprises, which should have been functioning efficiently after the Euro 2012. It concerns the facilities, which were put into service for various reasons in the first stage of construction before the Championships, enabling holding the matches, but to date in six years these enterprises have been conducting their activity on the basis of capacities not put into service according to current legislation. The problem of second stages of construction not put into service and current condition of their exploitation is examined on the example of Public Enterprise «Arena Lviv» and Public Enterprise «Danylo Halytskyi International Airport Lviv» on the basis of 2015-2017 financial accounts. Analysis of certain parameters shows positive and successful activity of Lviv Airport, testifying to high efficiency of reconstruction and expansion of the enterprise, as well as social nature of the project of stadium «Arena Lviv» construction. It is currently the base for athletes’ Olympic preparation and is planning the breakeven activity, but in fact is operating at a loss. The mechanisms and ways to overcome the problems of efficient management and development for the abovementioned enterprises are suggested, including in the first place the issues of putting into service the complete complex of facilities according to projects, transfer of Public Enterprise «Arena Lviv» to communal ownership of the city or oblast and concessioning on the basis of public and private partnership.
2012 European Football Championships, infrastructural objects, public and private partnership, public enterprise, Arena Lviv, Danylo Halytskyi International Airport Lviv
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