Following the recent acquisition of four SMV4535TC5 Konecranes Lift Trucks, Paterson Simons arranged a factory visit and training for members of the GPHA (Ghana Ports and Harbour Authority) team to Sweden last month. 12 team members from GPHA’s mechanical workshops toured the Sweden facility in Markaryd, alongside Blanca Martin Garcia...

During a recent review of our long-running Port Service Agreement with Konecranes Port Services in Düsseldorf, the Paterson Simons team took time out to look at the latest crane simulation technology deployed in the Konecranes Gottwald training centre. The multi-screen simulator uses multiple screens to accurately recreate the 180 degree...

We’ve had a busy 5 months, and as usual many reachstacker and forklift deliveries across the region successfully commissioned, including Mauritania and Senegal. APMT Mauritania in Nouakchott Paterson Simons has had a long relationship with APMT Mauritania in Nouakchott having commissioned and supplied three Konecranes SMV4531TB5 reachstackers 10 years ago...

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...

The Lomé Container Terminal recently renewed their service contract with Paterson Simons & Co. Togo SARLU (PSTL), and our 36-strong team in the terminal is occupied full-time looking after 22 Konecranes RTGs, entire fleet of STS cranes and RAM spreaders. The terminal also runs a fleet of mobile equipment and PSTL...

Ecolifting is a new drive and engine concept from Konecranes Lifttrucks, and is available on Stage 3 engines, meaning it is confirmed available on all machines suitable for West African conditions and fuels. By engaging cutting-edged engine technologies, and making intelligent adjustments to design, Konecranes engineers have developed two Ecolifting...

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...

At Paterson Simons we make it our business to monitor developments in emergent technologies in the industries we support. Automation is a hot topic and one that some customers can find intimidating. We thought that we would share our interest via the two case studies below. In the two examples...

A recent development in Paterson Simons’s expanding footprint in West Africa was the stationing of senior engineer, Noel Gottsch in Douala, Cameroon to better support the company’s client base there and in particular Douala International Terminal (DIT). The terminal has a fleet of more than 21 Konecranes Lifttrucks and four...

Huge sums of money are being ploughed into West Africa’s ports, and not before time, but will a regional hub on this part of the continent emerge? The past five years have seen many ports along the West Africa coast transformed, as private investment has led to the development of...

First Published in Konecranes WayUp Magazine The TIL Group’s brand new container terminal on the West African coast is open for business, and looks set to become the region’s premier container transshipment terminal. At sunrise Togo’s Lomé Container Terminal (LCT) is a delightful 19 degrees Celsius. The  morning breeze does...