Manitowoc Grove continually improve products even after they have left the factory! In a recent product update a retrofit has been introduced to improve access to the remote mounted engine oil filter for the GRT880: our best selling crane in West Africa. For any customers interested in details of the...

A recent article in World Cargo news covered Kenya’s new double-stacking railway carriages, designed to double the efficiency of moving empty containers from Nairobi’s Inland Container Depot (ICD) back to Mombasa port. One of the key challenges that the new infrastructure project hopes to manage is the universal logistics challenge...

Paterson Simons has for many years sold rough terrain forklifts to industrial customers throughout Ghana and west Africa. Our after market service, warranty repairs and parts supply ensure your forklift works at maximum uptime, and our customers in remote regions enjoy peace of mind.​   Manitou invented the rough terrain forklift. There is...

Buy a brand-new forklift from manufacturer approved dealer, Paterson Simons. New forklift trucks are available, and delivered throughout Ghana and West Africa, including immediate access to full warranty repair, parts and service options. Our customers know our factory-trained forklift truck engineers we will be there when the forklift needs routine maintenance...

Paterson Simons is an accredited JCB forklift stockist and service dealership. Our experience with sales, service, maintenance and repair of JCB Teletruk Forklifts in West Africa is second-to-none. Our factory-trained JCB Teletruk forklift and crane engineers are based throughout the region in Ghana, Nigeria, Togo and Cameroon and can be deployed further afield to Liberia, Niger,...

Paterson Simons recently hosted Klaus Kroeppel (Manitowoc Grove VP Sales Europe and Africa) and Paul Rogers (Manitowoc Grove Sales Director – Africa) on a tour of  Cote D’Ivoire and Ghana, where we introduced them to existing and prospective mining, ports, oil & gas and rental customers. A recurring question surfaced on...

Alimak Hek are most often associated with construction and port applications – but many mines, both above- and underground, use Alimak Hek lifts in pelletising plants, smelters, concentrators, and other ore processing plants. The wire hoist lifts are highly suitable for carrying heavy loads at relatively fast speeds and is the primary...

Rebuilding is an economical alternative to extend a crane’s life. Cranes are completely rebuilt, from the bare frame to a new paint job.  Paterson Simons has facilities and engineering skills capable of rebuilding mobile hydraulic and lattice boom crawler cranes. The machine is completely disassembled to its frame and rebuilt...

“For us, the only way for the yard to increase its capacity was to convert the operation from reach stackers to RTGs. The conversion to Konecranes RTGs gave us an additional 25 percent throughput capacity by increasing the number of slots”, says MPS CEO Mohamed Samara. Meridian Port Services Ltd. (MPS),...

Paterson Simons is uniquely placed to sell and service cranes all over West Africa, having both the logistics and language skills to service a wide territory. Paterson Simons boasts three native French speakers, two in our Brighton office covering crane parts and shipping and the other is in Ghana who...

When a new dedicated container terminal was proposed for the main port of Tema in Ghana Paterson Simons made a strong bid based on our proven expertise and commitment to service. With plans for the terminal to run on two shifts per day and with a large fleet of reachstackers and...

JCB Teletruks have long been popular in the ports in Ghana so when GPHA planned to set up a new state of the art devanning terminal (for unstuffing containers) – Golden Jubilee – as part of their long term plan to make Tema port the most modern and efficient in...