The global crisis caused by COVID-19 pandemic exerted significant impact upon most industries, however, the fertilizer industry has shown some resilience in the supply chain during the crisis. The main research question of the paper concerns the major factors ensuring the resilience of fertilizer companies under such circumstances. The paper presents current situation on the mineral fertilizers market, the influence of COVID-19 pandemic on fertilizer companies, and identifies the main market and industry trends. Then, it offers analytical framework for revealing key factors of success (potential competitive advantages) in the fertilizer industry as well as discusses their role in ensuring resilience of the companies during the crisis. The paper suggests categorization of competitive advantages that helps to identify the sustainable ones. It also reveals special role played by competitive advantages, based on core competencies, and justifies why they need to be developed in this new situation caused by the pandemic. One of the main findings in the paper is the conclusion about «global immunity» of fertilizer companies to environmental turbulence, as well as the conclusion about the new role and the need to transform traditional competitive advantages for the further successful growth of fertilizer companies.

由 COVID-19 大流行引起的全球危机对大多数行业产生了重大影响，但是，化肥行业在危机期间在供应链中表现出了一定的弹性。本文的主要研究问题是在这种情况下确保化肥企业韧性的主要因素。本文介绍了矿物肥料市场的现状、COVID-19 大流行对肥料公司的影响，并确定了主要市场和行业趋势。然后，它提供了揭示化肥行业成功关键因素（潜在竞争优势）的分析框架，并讨论了它们在确保公司在危机期间的弹性方面的作用。该文件建议对竞争优势进行分类，以帮助确定可持续的竞争优势。它还揭示了基于核心能力的竞争优势所发挥的特殊作用，并说明了为什么需要在大流行造成的新形势下发展它们。该论文的主要发现之一是关于化肥公司对环境动荡的“全球免疫力”的结论，以及关于化肥公司进一步成功发展的新角色和转变传统竞争优势的必要性的结论。