Balsa 91, a compact 350-foot Panama-flagged bulk ship, arrived on the North River Wednesday with a cargo of raw sugar from Dominican Republic heading for the refinery in Yonkers.

With the bulker having left DR after April 5, this may be the first or one of the first foreign cargos to arrive on the river subject to the new 10% cross-the-board tariffs. However, sugar imports have always been heavily tariffed and subject to quotas which might mean there is less incremental impact on price than we will see for other commodities previously subject to lower tariff regimes.

Marjorie B. McAllister traveled north ahead of the ship to assist with docking at the plant.