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The Asmara-Massawa Cableway was a cableway built in Italian Eritrea before World War II.〔(The Eritrean cableway (in Italian) )〕 ==History== 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. In southern Eritrea there was another small ropeway.〔() Mussie Tesfagiorgis, "Eritrea" p.47〕 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. Of the dismantled by the British ropeway, only the towers remained on place until they were scrapped in the 1980s. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Asmara-Massawa Cableway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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