Between the early cold snap boosting demand for heating oil up north and offshore gales keeping demand for North River anchorages high, there has been plenty of tanker barge and ATB traffic on the Hudson this month. Last Thursday, the Susan Rose/RCM 252 ATB came down the North River, returning from Albany. She passed the big Dylan Cooper/RCM 108 Reinauer ATB unit at anchor after a trip out Long Island Sound to New Haven and Bridgeport, and then the Gulf Coast northbound with a cargo for New Hamburg NY (I shared a photo of Gulf returning from that same trip yesterday).

This was the first time we have seen Susan after her return to service without her Rose Cay Maritime markings, though we have seen the Jordan Rose.

As of this Wednesday morning, Susan is at a products terminal in Quincy Mass and Dylan is at anchor in the Upper Bay, but Gulf Coast is back on the Hudson, passing Manhattan with a cargo hours before sunrise and maybe heading back to New Hamburg. Meanwhile, Jordan Rose is Albany-bound on the Hudson, having passed Manhattan just before sunset last night.