In May 2019 2merkato reported that SkyWay Investment Group of Belarus presented a commercial cableway idea to Ethiopia’s transport minister, arguing that elevated cable cars could link airports, suburbs, and hard-to-reach highland areas with less land take than new railways.
The company claimed lower earthworks and tunnel needs compared with conventional rail, and said the technology suited mountainous terrain.
Such pitches often stay on PowerPoint for years; the archive value is the date when Ethiopian officials were being sold aerial transit as a leapfrog option.
Kept as tech and infrastructure archive, the SkyWay file marks a speculative mobility proposal from the same weeks as more grounded hydro and road projects.
Sources: 2merkato