Road salt from Egypt continues to move up the North River this week, heading for the Port of Coeymans and then onward to municipal storage facilities to replenish what was expended over the winter.

On Friday morning, the bulk ship Princess Margo came through, catching the morning sun interrupted by the shadows cast by the towers of Riverside Boulevard. Margo had spent some time at anchor in the Upper Bay last weekend, lightering off some of her cargo to barges for transport upriver as captured by the Tugster blog on March 15.

Now, after first heading back to Ambrose anchorage for a bit, she was on her way up to presumably discharge the balance of her cargo with her draft reduced to 30 feet from I believe closer to 36 feet when she was in the Upper Bay. A few days before, Carver Marine’s Helen came up the river with another barge load of salt heading for Coeymans, perhaps some of the cargo that was transferred off Margo.