{"id":276928,"date":"2019-05-23T09:03:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T13:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiYGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LjJtZXJrYXRvLmNvbS9uZXdzL2FsZXJ0cy81NzE5LXNreXdheS1haW1zLXRvLWJyaW5nLWluLWNhYmxlLWNhcnMtdG8tZXRoaW9waWEtcy1za2llc9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:48:23","slug":"belarus-based-skyway-pitched-cable-cars-for-ethiopian-cities-and-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276928","title":{"rendered":"Belarus-based SkyWay pitched cable cars for Ethiopian cities and mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 2merkato reported that SkyWay Investment Group of Belarus presented a commercial cableway idea to Ethiopia\u2019s transport minister, arguing that elevated cable cars could link airports, suburbs, and hard-to-reach highland areas with less land take than new railways.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-355987\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Belarus-based SkyWay pitched cable cars for Ethiopian cities and mountains\" \/>\n<p>The company claimed lower earthworks and tunnel needs compared with conventional rail, and said the technology suited mountainous terrain.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.2merkato.com\/news\/alerts\/5719-skyway-aims-to-bring-in-cable-cars-to-ethiopias-skies\">2merkato<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SkyWay Aims to Bring Cable Cars to Ethiopia&#8217;s Skies&nbsp;&nbsp;2merkato &#8211; Ethiopian Business PortalSkyWay Investment Group (SWIG), a firm based in Belarus, aims to bring cable transport to Ethiopia. The company presented the idea of building a commerci&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":355987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a2A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754877,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276928\/revisions\/754877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}