KIEV, March 30 – Ukraine's State Property Fund intends to announce an auction on the privatization of public joint-stock company Odessa Port-Side Plant in the second half of May and hold it in June, Fund head Ihor Bilous said.

"I think that we will announce the deal in the second half of May. We jointly with the investment bank conducted a pre-sounding for investors and identified near 10 buyers that are international companies with a desire to participate in the auction that might take place in June," he said, speaking at the Business Forum Netherlands-Ukraine held in the Hague (the Netherlands) on Wednesday.