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Great fluency
The bulk ship Great Fluency, Hong Kong flag and 650-feet in length, was on the North River heading for sea on Sunday after calling at the Port of Coeymans, delivering an unknown cargo. By Thursday, she is approaching her next port of call, the coal docks of Norfolk, VA.
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Power supply
DonJon Marine tug Brian Nicholas, 60-years old though rebuilt and repowered, had the company’s Farrell 256 crane alongside Con Ed’s Pier 98 facility this week. The crane appeared to be assisting with work on some of the equipment on the structure. The pier, in addition to serving as a docking point for barges carrying backup…
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Making calls
Oslo Bulk 4, a small Portugal-flagged bulker, was heading for sea Monday just before sundown after coming up from the Caribbean to load an unknown cargo at the Port of Coeymans. By Tuesday morning, she is off the Delaware coast signaling Savannah as her next destination.
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Pothole season
The Chief, a small 15,000 dead-weight ton Marshall Islands flagged tanker, came down the North River heading for sea on Monday. The Chief had discharged a cargo in Rensselaer after arriving from the Caribbean with intermediate stops in Wilmington and Port Morris (the Bronx) and my guess is that this was an asphalt delivery. Coming…
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Piling on
A pair of Miller’s Launch tugs, Catherine and Shawn, were at Pier 94 Saturday morning maneuvering construction barges. Work to convert the pier to movie studios and soundstages with a public walkway along the north and west exposures is complete, but filings show piling restoration efforts will continue into 2027. The previous version of the…
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Mineral resources
A Dann Marine tug had a light cement transporter barge in tow on the hip heading back to the cement plant in Ravenna last Sunday. She passed the Buchanan12 on one whistle with her usual loads of crushed dolomite heading from the Clinton Point quarry to the Jersey City flats. The Hudson Valley’s rich mineral…
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Project supply
Miller’s Launch tug Michael Miller stemmed off Hoboken on Tuesday with a barge loaded with silos of concrete for the Gateway Tunnel riverbed stabilization project a bit further north. Two days later, attorneys for the states of New York and New Jersey were back in federal court facing off against the federal government and arguing…
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Farewell North River
The bulk ship Icarian Spire, Bahamas-flagged, was exiting the North River on Tuesday afternoon, passing Hoboken and Jersey City and heading for sea. The 590-foot vessel was in ballast after discharging a cargo at the Port of Coeymans, possibly salt. She is signaling Savannah as her next port of call.
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Containers on deck
The cargo ship BBC Minnesota came up the North River on Sunday afternoon with shipping containers on deck along with whatever cargo was stored in the holds, heading for Port of Albany and arriving from Antwerp. Ships like this are usually are either delivering or collecting project cargo from Albany. The shipping containers could be…
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Help is on the way
When we see Moran Towing Corporation tugs leaving the harbor and traveling up the North River beyond the cruise terminal it usually means there is assist work to do at the wallboard plant up in Buchanan, New York. This was the case on Saturday when Margaret and Miriam Moran passed by on their way to…
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Private sludge
Vinik Transportation was moving residual sludge from New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection North River plant to the Passaic Valley plant in Newark for de-watering. The tug Liz Vinik, last seen clearing ice around Pier 98 a few months ago, had the privately-owned sludge barge Maria in tow on the hip, passing Weehawken in…
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French frigate
The French navy’s newest frigate, the Amiral Ronarc’h arrived in New York this weekend and has docked on the south side of North River Pier 88. The ship is the first of its class of defense and intervention frigates (FDI) and is on a trial deployment in the far north and western Atlantic. The visit…
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Survey says…
A survey team was working in the shuttered 79th Street Boat Basin Marina in late March, perhaps a sign that the long-awaited rebuilding project currently in the permitting phase is getting closer to starting construction. With 79th Street out of action since 2021, the Dyckman Street Marina uptown now closed for rebuilding, and the North…
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Simply Marvelous
The bulk ship SSI Marvelous came up the North River Monday morning, the first of two bulkers to pass through within a half hour of each other. Unlike most of the bulk ships we see this time of year which are bringing salt to the Port of Coeymans, Marvelous was carrying cement and heading for…
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Time for some yard work
Deborah Quinn, a 1962-vintage 2,200 HP tug with classic lines, ran up the North River early Monday morning, heading for the shipyard in Kingston NY. Deborah is owned by Breakwater Marine Construction according to the Tugboatinformation website and I believe she has mainly been working on the East River resiliency project on the East Side…
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Thundering Typhoons!
Thundering typhoons! The bulk ship Captain Haddock came up the North River Monday, Port of Coeymans bound and partially laden with salt after lightering off some cargo in the Upper Bay to Carver Marine barges last month and then killing some time at Ambrose Anchorage. The Captain is no doubt named for Belgian graphic novelist…
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Cement season
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…
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Season of the Brant
The brant are back. Every spring, brant geese spend some time on the North River as they begin their migration back to the Canadian arctic from their winter homes along the Jersey or Long Island shorelines. On Saturday, there were large numbers of these birds, which look like smaller versions of our local Canada geese,…
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Unburdened youth
The bulk ship Amis Youth (not Aimless Youth), 650 feet in length and Liberia flagged, came down the North River Friday morning heading for sea. Youth was in ballast and drawing less than 30 feet after discharging a cargo at the Port of Coeymans. Bulk ship traffic on the river has been heavy this spring,…
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