between the Solomonovo Industrial Park and the centers of Slovenia is 290 km,
Hungary 370 km, and Austria 760 km. The customs border with Slovakia is 24 km,
Poland is 78 km, Hungary 2 km, Romania 170 km.
Figure 3. Geographical location and logistic connections of Solomonovo Industrial
Park with the EU [15]
Benefits of work in Zakarpattya were appreciated by corporations like Skoda,
Jabil, Flex, Yazaki Corporation, Forschner, Groclin Group and others [15].
The results of automobile development in recent years make it possible to
consider Uzhgorod district of Zakarpattya region of Ukraine as a potential first cluster
in the automobile industry. According to the development plan, industrial park
"Solomonovo" and "Eurocar" plant are the car cluster basis of the Western part of
Ukraine. It should be noted that for transforming purposes of Ukraine into an attractive
market for foreign investment, strategic development of the vector of formation of
cluster structures is extremely important. Especially when it comes to the clusters
formations around key industries, among which is automotive as a branch of
mechanical engineering.
Currently, the first automotive cluster in Western Ukraine is practically formed in
Ukraine, which creates the potential for localization of automotive industry production.
This is easy to prove, since the number of already built capacities, plans for
construction, the appearance in the industrial park of component manufacturers, make
it possible to consider this region as the future automotive cluster in Ukraine.
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