The ASMARA-MASSAWA CABLEWAY: When Eritrea had the longest cableway in the world in 1938. The Massawa-Asmara cableway is now recognized as the longest three-cable aerial line ever constructed. It was dismantled by the British.
اطول كابل معلق في العالم لترحيل البضائع في عام ١٩٣٨ وفريد من نوعه حتي الأن كان يربط بين مصوع واسمرا . قام الأنجليز بتفكيكه
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The cableway was built by the Italian engineering firm "Ceretti and Tanfani" in Eritrea. It connected the port of Massawa with the city of Asmara and ran a distance of some 75 kilometres. It moved food, supplies and war materials for the Imperial Italian Army then conquering Ethiopia. With the capacity to transport 30 tons of material every hour in each direction from the seaport of Massawa to 2326 meters above sea level in Asmara, the cableway was the longest of its kind in the world when was inaugurated in 1938. It had 13 sections, was powered by diesel engines, and carried freight in small transport gondolas. During their eleven-year occupation of the former Italian colony as a result of World War II, the British salvaged the diesel engines and removed other equipment. The towers remained until they were scrapped in the 1980s.
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The cableway was built by the Italian engineering firm "Ceretti and Tanfani" in Eritrea. It connected the port of Massawa with the city of Asmara and ran a distance of some 75 kilometres. It moved food, supplies and war materials for the Imperial Italian Army then conquering Ethiopia. With the capacity to transport 30 tons of material every hour in each direction from the seaport of Massawa to 2326 meters above sea level in Asmara, the cableway was the longest of its kind in the world when was inaugurated in 1938. It had 13 sections, was powered by diesel engines, and carried freight in small transport gondolas. During their eleven-year occupation of the former Italian colony as a result of World War II, the British salvaged the diesel engines and removed other equipment. The towers remained until they were scrapped in the 1980s.
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Details of how it was built (30 pages) you find in this link. The link is also available at the comments section
http://www.funivie.org/web/teleferica-massaua-asmara/
http://www.funivie.org/web/teleferica-massaua-asmara/
How much money, effort and dedication will take to rebuild same one or simillar one, way to go Eritrea!!
ReplyDeleteThe British should pay for the re-build.
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