Cement is moving on the North River this month as construction activity ramps up with the spring thaw. Dann Marine’s Pearl Coast came down from the Amrize cement plant in Ravenna, NY on the first day of April with a loaded cement transporter. Pearl and other Dann tugs make regular runs down the Hudson delivering cement from the plant to terminals around New York Harbor and sometimes up to New England or down the coast. On this trip, Pearl headed for the cement terminal in Bayonne and then continued on to Boston.

The Amrize plant, formerly Lafarge, is one of three manufacturing facilities operating on the Hudson which uses its own docking facility to access the river (a fourth, Domino Sugar in Yonkers, closed at the end of last year), and the only one which sends out its finished product by water (as opposed to bringing in raw material).