Increase both safety and visibility while operating your Konecranes Lift Truck by enhancing peripheral and forward vision. As the cabins are prepared for this upgrade, the mounting of this kit is easy and fast! Konecranes Lift Truck Working Lights – Roof Led Bar can be fitted on generation B &...

Kola Dosunmu, Executive Director of Paterson Simons, Nigeria visited our Brighton office alongside some customer visits last week and generously gifted staff with Nigerian Ankara shirts for a Friday traditional dress day. Ankara is a type of cotton cloth featuring brightly coloured patterns produced by means of a wax-resist dye...

Komi has worked at Paterson Simons, Togo for over 7 years. Komi initially worked as a Rubber Tyre Gantry Crane (RTG) and Ship To Shore (STS) Port Crane Technician. Due to Komi’s skill in his work, the variety of the breakdowns that he works on, and his passion for his...

The CARER name, has the following meaning: CAR means Carrellificio  (in English, this means:  fork lift trucks factory) E  means Elettrico  (in English, this means: electric) R means Romagnolo (in English, this means: from Romagna, which is the name of the area where the Carer factory is located!) Carer have 40...

Two Konecranes SMV4632 TC5 Reach stackers were commissioned for customer Matadi Gateway Terminal (MGT), in March 2022. These reach stackers are joining the existing fleet of Konecranes Gottwald Mobile Harbour Cranes (MHC) at MGT. MGT is an International Container Terminal Services, Inc (ICTSI) concession in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).   Matadi is...

Increase safety while operating your Konecranes empty container handlers by mounting the Over Head Guard – Safety cage to protect the operator from a falling object. How does an overhead guard work? An overhead guard is a cage-like metal construction that is mounted over the operator cabin. It is sturdy...

Have a look at this old British crane with a variable position counterweight on rails, recently spotted by our team at Bibiani in Ghana! We believe this crane will have started life as a hand operated railway crane similar to the one in the image below and as it was...

Konecranes Lifttrucks has made an announcement regarding the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and its effect on supplies and pricing of spare parts. Our offer is subject to the same additional conditions: the notice can be read here....

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...

Abali has worked at Paterson Simons for 7 years, starting as a Crane Technician and was promoted to Shift Supervisor, then Crane Supervisor, and finally, due to his achievements in the role, Abali was promoted to Shift Leader, which is his current position. In his time at Paterson Simons, Abali...

M. Braud the founder of Manitou was the inventor of the Rough Terrain forklift which he achieved by taking the conventional layout of a farm tractor and adding a mast and forks. Today the modern descendants of that design in the M/MX range still set the standard for the product...

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...