KIEV, Jan. 3 – Oleksandr Yaroslavsky's DCH Group will send to the State Property Fund its formal appeal about the group's willingness to take a lease of the Odessa Port-Side Plant.

"Such legal form as renting the Odessa Port-Side Plant will allow us to thoroughly understand the economic mechanism of activities of the plant and choose the best way to modernize it. At the moment, our specialists are preparing a formal appeal to the State Property Fund where we will state our willingness to take the enterprise on lease," DCH said in a statement on Friday night.