The Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company has enlisted a team of engineers from Switzerland to ensure top-notch maintenance of the cableway, Cape {town} Etc reports.
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The iconic Cape Town attraction is currently closed for a seven-week maintenance period and is expected to reopen in early September.
Technical Executive Andries de Vries explained that the Swiss engineers, from the Doppelmayr-Garaventa Group, are the original manufacturers who installed the cableway in 1997.
‘They’ve also got all the specialised tools to do cablework because in South Africa, other than the mines, we don’t really have this level of cableway,’ said De Vries.
He assured that the maintenance work is on schedule to be completed by early September.
‘The next two-and-a-half weeks is going to be… time will tell… this is crunch time, but so far we’ve clawed back the time we lost in the beginning and we’re on schedule.’
Hikers are advised to avoid trails near the cableway during the maintenance period.
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