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A cargo for Albany
The Dean Reinauer/RTC 106 ATB, a 4,000 HP tug paired with a 108,000 barrel barge, were northbound on the North River on Thursday with a New York Harbor products cargo heading for Albany. By Friday morning, the unit was docked by the Buckeye terminal in Albany.
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Svend and receive
The heavy lift cargo ship Svend came up the North River Monday morning, heading for the Port of Albany and arriving from Rotterdam after first calling on Portsmouth, NH. She may have been delivering some type of project cargo or perhaps loading heavy equipment manufactured up north for export, though she did show an AIS status of “in ballast” on her subsequent departure suggesting a delivery is perhaps more likely in this case. By Thursday morning she was en route to her next port of call Charleston SC.
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The Canmer, a small 6,000 deadweight ton tanker, was heading to sea after calling at the Buckeye terminal at the Port of Albany. Canmer had arrived from Guyana and after leaving New York proceeded to Halifax, NS and was leaving town appearing more heavily laden than when she arrived. This is not a tanker routing I’ve seen before but with the global oil products market disrupted it would not be surprising to see products moving in atypical directions.
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Scrap Sunday
Carver Marine Towing’s Daisy Mae came down the North River on Sunday bringing hoppers loaded with scrap metal and one with some kind of aggregate down from the Port of Coeymans heading for the harbor.
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Stone run
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland came up the North River late afternoon Friday, passing the Stevens Institute on Castle Point in Hoboken with a light hopper heading for the Clinton Point quarry near Poughkeepsie. George returned on Sunday with a stone cargo heading for the materials dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and then continued out to Port Jefferson on Long Island Sound.
As of Monday morning, she is on Long Island Sound, returning from Port Jeff and signaling her next destination as back to Clinton Point. The quarry has long been a major supplier of stone for the construction industry in the New York region.
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Back for more
The Janice Anne Reinauer/RTC 103 ATB (4,400 HP tug with a 108,000 barrel barge) came down the North River Saturday evening, returning to the harbor after a run up to Albany. By Sunday morning, the unit appears to be loading a new cargo at a terminal in Perth Amboy on the Arthur Kill.
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Up from the depths
DonJon’s Delaware Bay dredge prepared to dump a load of mud from the bottom of the North River by Pier 88 into a scow on Thursday. Seasonal dredging at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal is underway to maintain 38 feet of depth at mean low water.
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On the cement trail
Dann Marine tug Coral Coast (56-years-old, 3,000 HP) came down the North River just before sunset on Thursday, passing Hoboken’s Stevens Institute and Jersey City with a loaded cement transporter barge from the plant in Ravenna, NY. Coral brought the tow to the distribution terminal on Flushing Bay in Queens, where they remain Friday morning.
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Thursday morning haze
Reinauer’s Josephine/RTC 83 ATB, a 4400 HP tug pinned to a 85,000 barrel barge, was Albany-bound on the North River in the Thursday morning haze after loading a New York Habor cargo overnight at Tremley Point on the Arthur Kill.
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Long may you run
The Army Corps of Engineers Drift Collection Vessel Driftmaster was on the North River in mid-April, on patrol for hazards to navigation brought down by the spring melt to be cleared with her big crane. Driftmaster was launched in the 1940s making it probably the oldest vessel regularly working in New York Harbor. We don’t see this vessel all too often on the North River and she spends more time around the Upper Bay but she did come upriver again last week.
Observations on the Hudson River as it passes through New York City. The section of the Hudson which passes through New York is historically known as the North River, called this by the Dutch to distinguish it from the Delaware River, which they knew as the South River. This stretch of the Hudson is still often referred to as the North River by local mariners today. All photos copyright Daniel Katzive unless otherwise attributed. For more frequent updates, please follow northriverblog on Facebook or Instagram.
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