KIEV, June 15 ??“ Five companies, led by Siemens of Germany, submitted preliminary bids to buy a 76% stake in Luhanskteplovoz, Ukraine??™s only manufacturer of locomotives, State Property Fund Chairwoman Valentyna Semeniuk said.

Other major bidders included AutoKrAZ holding, Ukraine??™s producer of heavy duty trucks, Transmashholding of Russia and a Polish firm, Semeniuk said.