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On December 5, TV channel "Channel 2 Mogilev" released on air a video report highlighting the innovative SkyWay project at the International exhibition "Transport of Russia". SkyWay was the only exhibitor from the Republic of Belarus.

As a reminder, the tenth jubilee exhibition "Transport of Russia" became one of the events that took place in the framework of "Transport Week", which is an annual event held by the Ministry of transport of the Russian Federation and demonstrating the main trends in the market of transport services. The event was attended by such respected and influential people, as the Governor of the Ulyanovsk region Sergey Morozov and the President of Skolkovo Moscow School of Management Andrey Sharonov.

"Primarily, it was very pleasant that our stand was visited by Sergey Morozov, Governor of Ulyanovsk region, who was the first to present this technology in 2009 to Dmitry Medvedev in the Ulyanovsk region at the State Council meeting on innovations, - said Deputy General Director for development Victor Baburin in a short interview to the TV channel. - He was very pleased to see the progress of the project." Victor also described the benefits of the string transport system as a whole.

All the details, as well as unique footage of the first operation trials with unibike are presented in the video report.

TV presenter: The International exhibition "Transport of Russia 2016" was held in Moscow last week. Representatives of Belarus also presented their project there. More details in the next report.

Reporter: The Transport Week that hosted the exhibition is a unique format including the major and most important business and cultural events in the sector. The area of the Exhibition Center "Gostinny Dvor" displayed various innovative projects in the field of automotive transport, aviation, shipping traffic and other technologies of the transport industry. The Belarusian side represented by SkyWay Technologies Co. also displayed its project at the exhibition "Transport of Russia". It presented its innovative technologies that have already started to undergo operation trials in the town of Maryina Gorka near Minsk. The first to be tested was one of the vehicles developed against the project - unibike. It is a vehicle of small capacity. Its primary spheres of application are recreational and restricted areas, resting places and local transport lines. With the development of technology and appropriate infrastructure, unibike can be used as a fully-featured urban transport taking an intermediate position between individual and public transport. This mode of transport has a number of benefits ensuring passenger traffic more comfortable and less costly.

Victor Baburin: Primarily, we speak about the low cost of the track structure and rolling stock. Then, eco-friendliness and large volumes of passenger and cargo traffic due to a new approach to logistics.

R: SkyWay already has several potential customers from different countries: Australia, the Philippines, Russia, Israel, Canada, India and others.

R: And finally, today some officials came here. What were their opinions?

V.B.: Primarily, it was very pleasant that our stand was visited by Sergey Morozov, Governor of Ulyanovsk region, who was the first to present this technology in 2009 to Dmitry Medvedev in the Ulyanovsk region at the State Council meeting on innovations. He was very pleased to see the progress of the project.

R.: The exhibition "Transport of Russia" was held during three days, thousands of people visited it. A number of cooperation agreements were signed or planned.