Editing Economy of Ukraine (section)

====Shipbuilding====
{{main|Shipbuilding in Ukraine}}
[[File:Minerva underway in Black Sea Krasnodarskiy Kray Sochi 8 October 2015 (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[MV Minerva]] − a passenger ship built in Ukraine]]
Ukraine is one of the 10 largest shipbuilding countries in Europe. There are 49 shipbuilding companies registered in Ukraine. They are able to build a wide range of vessel types: [[Motorboat|powerboats]], [[barge]]s, [[bulk carrier]]s (dry cargo ship), [[tanker (ship)|tankers]], liquefied gas carriers, etc.<ref name="shipbuilding">{{Cite web|url=http://www.mayger.ua/en/market-review/shipbuilding-in-ukraine-investments-and-government-support/|title=MAYGER Development & Consulting – Shipbuilding in Ukraine: Investments and Government Support|website=www.mayger.ua|date=31 July 2006 }}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite web |url=http://ukrexport.gov.ua/eng/economy/brief/ukr/201.html |title=Shipbuilding of Ukraine (2007) |access-date=28 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203002925/http://ukrexport.gov.ua/eng/economy/brief/ukr/201.html |archive-date=3 December 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The USSR's collapse put Ukraine's [[shipbuilding]] into a long-term decline. This lasted until 1999 and was mostly due to a minimum volume of state shipbuilding orders. Between 1992 and 2003, Ukraine's 11 [[shipyard]]s produced 237 navigation units for a total value of US$1.5&nbsp;billion. Production facilities are not working near full capacity, and customers are not always timely in paying for services. The shipbuilding industry grew between 2000 and 2006, in line with the wider Ukrainian economic expansion at the time.<ref name="shipbuilding"/><ref name="auto1"/>

State support and the opening of [[free economic zone]]s, foremost at enterprises based in [[Mykolaiv]] were a crucial recent development in Ukraine's shipbuilding industry. Within the Mykolaiv Special Economic Zone, enterprises like [[Okean Shipyard|Damen Shipyards Okean]], [[Black Sea Shipyard|Chornomorskyi (Black Sea) Shipbuilding Plant]] (defunct since 2021), [[Mykolayiv Shipyard|61 Communards Shipbuilding Plant]], as well as the Veselka (Rainbow) paint and insulation enterprise are implementing investment projects targeted to raise efficiency and quality in primarily export-oriented vessels through production upgrades. The new engineering developments and high potential of Ukrainian designers provide the ability to build high quality vessels with competitive prices.<ref name="shipbuilding"/><ref name="auto1"/>