Paterson Simons Service Manager Messan Guedou recently visited Europe to shadow an experienced Konecranes engineering team building a Konecranes Gottwald Mobile Harbour Crane (MHC) ordered by ICTSI for their operations at Matadi Gateway Terminal. He arrived in time to witness the boom assembly, fitting of boom to the crane, process...

Ensure your operators and service technicians experience a secure working environment during maintenance operations, with Konecranes container checking safety system. Container checking safety system from Konecranes The system (red supports) is mounted on both sides of the mast. While activated, the system is locked mechanically in horizontal position, preventing the...

Paterson Simons & Pasico Ghana attended the Investing in African Mining Indaba, held in Cape Town from 6 – 9 February 2023. The Mining Indaba is solely dedicated to the successful capitalisation and development of mining interests in Africa. Succeeding for over 27 years, the Mining Indaba has a unique...

Pasico Ghana, a subsidiary of Paterson Simons, attended the Local Content Conference & Exhibition 2022 (LCCE), from 22 to 24th November, In Takoradi, Ghana. Organised by Petroleum Commission, Ghana, the annual Local Content Conference and Exhibition (LCCE) is one of the largest events in the oil and gas industry with the...

Paterson Simons, through Pasico Ghana, teamed up with the Civil Engineering Department of Ghana Ports & Harbours Authority (GPHA) recently to complete an installation of two Trelleborg SCN1800 fenders, at GPHA. Trelleborg’s Super Cone Fenders (SCN) are the latest generation of ‘cell’ fenders, with optimal performance and efficiency. The conical...

The Paterson Simons team have successfully commissioned and offloaded two Konecranes 16W Rubber Tyred Gantry Cranes (RTGs) at West Africa Container Terminal (WACT) in Onne, Nigeria. This adds to the existing fleet of 18 RTGS at WACT. The terminal now has 20 Konecranes RTGs. 16 of these cranes were solely...

RopeQ™ Magnetic Rope Inspection from Konecranes improves safety, producing consistent and reliable results. Wire ropes are one of the most critical parts of RTGs, and they can contain hundreds of individual strands. Broken strands on the rope exterior can be found by visual inspections, but the condition of the core...

Silverdalens Mekaniska Verkstad (SMV), in English translates to ‘Silverdale Mechanical Workshop’. SMV was founded in 1947. A change in the management team in 1994 led to the establishment of a new factory in Markaryd, Southern Sweden. A full new range of reach stackers, empty container handlers, and heavy forklifts was...

Our team recently completed a Grove RT890E Boom Cylinder resealing job for one of our long-term mining clients in Ghana. Boom Cylinder resealing is usually carried out every 7 to 8 years, depending on the equipment usage, the rate of wear of the seals, and the temperatures that the equipment...

We are proud to have been providing STS and RTG full maintenance including reliability engineering services to Lomé Container Terminal (LCT) for over 7 years and have been on a path of continual improvement with the terminal to help them operate more efficiently and safely as the terminal grows. We are Konecranes port...

The Bolloré terminal in Benin currently operates two Konecranes Liftace E 6/7 ECC9 empty container handlers, delivered in 2021. Since 1927, Bolloré has been serving African trade and logistics. Today, they maintain a multimodal network of container terminals, dry ports and railways in 46 African countries as well as several...

Two 5 ton Manitou MI-X50D Forklifts were commissioned and handed over to GPHA by Paterson Simons on 16 January 2022. Kenneth Vigbedor, from Pasico Ghana, one of our subsidiaries, handed over the equipment.   The two 5 ton MI-X50D Manitou Forklifts supplied are all container versions, which have a low cabin and closed...