STATISTICAL OVERVIEW OF CAPITAL INVESTMENTS TRENDS OF STATE STIVIDOR COMPANIES OF UKRAINE

The research analyzes capital investments of state-owned stevedoring companies using statistical methods of relative and average values and indices. It has been established that the current trends in the port industry of Ukraine indicate insufficient capital investments, inconsistency of actual indicators with planned ones, and the lack of external financing. Against the general tendency of profitability deterioration of state-owned stevedoring companies and the decrease of their marketshare of port services vs the increase of privately-owned stevedoring companies, the importance of competitiveness strengthening is increasing namely through the availability of sufficient fixed assets in the form of portal cranes and a port fleet. The tendencies of the indicator «capital investments» for the state stevedoring companies of Ukraine has been determined. The analysis has demonstrated the existence of a stable trend of a capital investments decrease of almost all companies, which is very typical for most of the analyzed companies and is associated with the lack of: investment activity, executing capital investments and expanding production capacities. In addition to the above, all capital investments are financed with own assets, without using alternative methods of financing, such as funds from the state and local budgets, national and foreign bank loans. The most actively implemented type of the capital investments is modernization, modification (restructuring, additional equipment, reconstruction) of existing fixed assets. The least popular types are capital construction and major repairs. It is proposed to determine the relationship between the tendencies of capital investments in fixed assets and the increase in investment activity by the application of the ratio of the average annual growth rates of capital investments in fixed assets divided by the indicator of their efficiency (profitability of fixed assets), calculated as the ratio of net profit to the average annual cost of fixed assets. It is recommended to use factor analysis using classical methods of deterministic analysis, as well as simulation modelling, for more detailed analysis of capital investments in fixed assets.