Sharjah’s electric sky pods to transport shipping containers and boost UAE’s green drive – The National

Sharjah’s electric sky pods to transport shipping containers and boost UAE’s green drive – The National

A shipping container terminal is the latest addition to a Sharjah test centre that aims to take mass transport to the skies with an innovative system of pods carried by cables.

The Ucont system, under development by uSky Transport at the Sharjah Research, Technology and Innovation Park, is expected to be up and running as a test site by December.

Passenger pods are already in operation at the site’s $14 million SkyWay Innovation Centre as a proof-of-concept of how the technology works.