Paterson Simons and Pasico recently co-sponsored a 4-day event hosted by the 39th Council and Conference of Ports Management Association of West and Central Africa (PMAWCA) in Accra – and was represented by Pasico Managing director Mr. Kwaku Okoh and Mr Solomon Eshun, General Manager of Equipment Sales & Leasing. The...

Important GMK equipment announcement Paterson Simons wishes to inform you of an additional instruction that should be included in the supplied Operator’s Manual for all GMK cranes. The following sheets give extended instruction for the correct use of load-bearing equipment and lifting tackle. Should you have any questions or complications, please contact us at website@patersonsimons.com Download the additional manual pages here....

In 2017 China Harbour broke ground on the new Tema Container Terminal port expansion. Valued at $1.5bn the new expanded Tema terminal will be run by Meridian Port Services, a JV between Bolloré and APMT. The project is scheduled for completion by end 2019, and will triple Tema port’s capacity...

In June this year we proudly handed over a Konecranes Empty Container Handler SMV5-6ECC90 to the Bollore operated Dakar Port. Of the occasion, Fansou Diédhiou, Bollore workshop manager said, “It (was) a big performance to mount the machine in one day and half. You are welcome for the next commissionings!” Konecranes...

Zafar Domloge (Mobicrane), Phil Coggin (Mobicrane), James Heels (Paterson Simons Ghana Country Manager) and Paul Rogers, Manitowoc Manager for the Middle East and Africa, recently visited Shady Grove, Pennsylvania – Manitowoc’s head quarters in the US. Mobicrane is a key Paterson Simons customer, and it was a pleasure to invite...

Weighing in at an impressive 100MT capacity the new GRT8100 Rough Terrain Crane, is now being manufactured by Manitrowoc’s Niella-Tanaro facility in Italy. Manitowoc has also taken the decision to significantly lower the prices of these cranes into the African market. Contact us here for more information on this incredible...

Pasico is also well-known for its crane certification, inspection and training department: CIT. The CIT team recently enjoyed an intensive two-week training update from CICB. CICB is  one of the world’s premier crane and heavy lift training and inspection companies. Based in the US, their other clients include NASA, The...

Pasico is pleased to continue to support students from the Takoradi Technical University (TTU). The company has over the course of a few years offered annual internships that give a select number of TTU students practical, hands-on engineering skills to supplement their technical training. Recently the latest group of interns...

Mirco Minocceri, Paterson Simons training cinsultant, led training for three engineers at the Manitowoc Factory in Niella Tanaro, Italy. Ekow Jones, Pasico Service Engineer, Nkrumah Benjamin, Maintenance Engineer at PSC Tema Ship Yard and Kluvia Isaac Dzidzienyo, Electrical Engineer at PSC Tema Ship Yard enjoyed a rigorous week-long course on the Grove RT550, which...

Seldom happy to contain ourselves to the beaten track, Pasico engineer Elvis Dongwiri was recently called to a disused mine site in a very remote region of Niger to repair a RT 890E. Conditions are robust, and the crane has performed well under the circumstances, but needed some attention prior...

While the history of Paterson Simons dates back to the 1800s, where the company grew to become a behemoth of the Singaporean trade routes, leveraging off of critical relationships it had established with Malaysian royal family, the company we know today as Paterson Simons (Africa) Ltd. is relatively speaking younger,...

The Lomé Container Terminal (LCT), in Lomé, Togo, has renewed its service contract with Paterson Simons for a further two years. Paterson Simons currently services 22 Konecranes rubber tyred gantry cranes (RTGs), 9 ship-to-shore cranes plus nine Alimak Hek lifts and 50 spreaders. With a dedicated workshop, and a permanent staff complement of 27, the undertaking to keep...