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With the signing of this document will begin the work of procurement, shipment, assembly and installation of electromechanical components and study the development of the cable, whose completion time stipulated in approximately 24 months.

This second phase corresponds to the continuity of a first step which included the commissioning of the cable cars will load for 15 000 tonnes of material to work with the company Doppelmayr.

During the signing, the tourism portfolio holder, Alexander Fleming, said the government presided over by Commander Hugo Chavez, has taken a further step in tourism, "a momentous step that will allow us to give a cable car Mérida Venezuela and modernized. With this project, not only vindicate the two characteristics that have made only the Mérida cable car, cable car as the highest and longest in the world, but will be the world's most modern cable car, pride for Venezuelans, for Merida and Latin Americans, "he said Fleming.

For his part, representative of the company Doppelmayr, Shoffel Martin said it will be a technologically sophisticated cable car. "We are well equipped to provide the technological edge cable car." He added that 550 workers will go for hours through the cable cars of cargo.

The Minister also announced that soon a new agreement be signed to finance the construction project of the new route of the cable car to Macuto Warairarepano in Vargas. "We want to Caracas, the city of cable cars. This cable car, not only will allow us to continue to enjoy this Warairarepano, but also allow access to the state of Vargas, Alejandro Fleming pointed out. (Magdamelia Loreto M. / Press Mintur ) .-

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