Abstract:
Pricing in port industry is a strategic issue for Ukraine, carefully justified tariffs and port dues should become an important competitive advantage in the international market of stevedoring services. The task of creating competitive tariffs brings to the fore the cost management process, which should be aimed not only at minimizing costs, but also at the mechanism for making effective decisions, which will optimize costs, achieve maximum profit, both in the short and long term. The existing system of port tariffs and dues in foreign ports has a higher degree of flexibility, which makes them attractive to ship owners. This makes it necessary to improve methodological approaches to the formation of port tariffs and dues in Ukraine, taking into account the world experience, based on a sound approach to cost management and the introduction of a controlling system for port enterprises. The competitive position of Ukrainian port enterprises is weak, primarily due to the insufficiently justified level of port dues and tariffs. The transition to the use of flexible pricing for cargo handling operations for Ukrainian port enterprises requires the development of economically sound approaches to determining contractual rates for services. Changes in the level of port tariffs are associated with a decrease or increase in the competitiveness of market participants in stevedoring services, so the decision to reduce or increase the level of port tariffs should be based on economic feasibility
