KYIV, Dec 29 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Nova Poshta group of companies have signed an agreement on a loan of EUR 13 million for the construction of an automated sorting hub in the city of Dnipro.

"The loan, available in EUR os and Ukrainian hryvnia, will be used to build an innovative, automated sorting hub in the south-central Ukrainian city of Dnipro. A state-of-the-art facility will feature a new smart system designed by Equinox, a Lithuanian provider of solutions for robotization and the optimization of logistics," the bank said in a press release.