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On Haverstraw Bay
Dann Ocean’s Captain Dann ran light up Haverstraw Bay on Saturday morning, having come up from the North River heading for the shipyard in Kingston, probably to collect a barge. After a quick turn, the tug came back downriver, left town and headed for Philly, probably to deliver the barge she probably collected. By then…
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Loaded
The Haggerty Girls/ RTC 107 ATB was anchored in the North River on Saturday with the 107,000 barrel barge looking loaded. We don’t see loaded barges at anchor very often but we do occasionally. The unit has been back and forth between the North River and the Arthur Kill for the rest of the week.
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Pulp fact
The cargo ship Timber Navigator, Dutch-flagged and 387 feet long, was Albany-bound on the North River on the last day of March. Arriving from Sweden, she is likely carrying wood pulp headed for northeast paper mills. By Wednesday morning she was approaching her destination having anchored off Hyde Park overnight.
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In ballast
The Liberian-flagged 650-foot long bulk ship Aquagemini came down the North River heading for sea on Monday morning. The ship was in ballast and drawing less than 25 feet after discharging a cargo from Egypt at the Port of Coeymans, probably salt. By Tuesday morning she is well offshore and heading southeast.
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Running light past the cliffs
Poling & Cutler’s Evelyn Cutler ran light up the North River on Saturday afternoon, passing the Palisades at Englewood Cliffs and heading for the IPT terminal in Rensselaer. Kimberly Poling was there at the same time, and Evelyn perhaps took over her barge as Kimberly subsequently headed for the shipyard in Kingston. As of Monday…
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Metal and salt
Carver Marine tug Daisy Mae (9-years old, 3,200 HP) returned to the harbor on Friday morning with a hopper loaded with scrap metal, along with a few light hoppers one of which still had some of what I assume is salt visible along the gunnel. Carver tugs have been ferrying huge amounts of salt upriver…
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Green and greener
For as long I can remember, New York Sanitation Department barges hauling waste paper away from North River Pier 99 have been painted blue, in a slightly darker shade than the livery of the DonJon Marine tugs which haul them under contract to the recycling mill on the Staten Island shore of the Arthur Kill.…
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West New York
The Kirby Mount St. Elias/DBL 82 ATB has been a regular on the Hudson River routes this winter. On Friday morning, the unit passed West New York, New Jersey on her way down the North River. The accurately if unimaginatively named town sits between Weehawken and Guttenberg, NJ and lettering at the top of the…
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Heavy lift
Heavy lift cargo ship Gwen, Antigua-flagged, was heading for sea in the late afternoon haze as temperatures warmed Wednesday afternoon. Gwen had called at Port of Albany and was showing Palm Beach as her next port of call.
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Working visit
Reinauer’s Dylan Cooper/ RTC 108 ATB, a 4,000 HP tug paired with a 108,000 barrel capacity barge, spent Tuesday at anchor on the North River off West New York after arriving after dark Monday evening. At slack tide, a launch called Grace D paid a visit and spent some time alongside. After sundown, Dylan headed…
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The Feds
Two of New York Harbor’s federal government boats met on the North River Monday, with the Coast Guard cutter Bonito overtaking the Army Corp of Engineers boat Moritz off West New York. Bonito, the current Sandy Hook patrol boat and the only white-hulled cutter based in New York Harbor, was returning to base from a…
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Keep the salt coming
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…
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The big one
The Christian Reinauer/RTC 145 is about as big an ATB combination as you are ever likely to see on the North River, one of Reinauer’s largest units with a 7,200 HP tug paired with a 477-foot 150,000 barrel barge. We did see Christian making trips upriver back in 2022 but this year we’ve just seen…
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A non-petroleum product
Ardmore Cherokee, a 25,000 deadweight ton Marshall Islands flagged tanker, came up the North River late Sunday afternoon, arriving from Emden, Belgium. She was heading for the dock at Innovative Surface Solutions in Glenmont, just south of Albany, making liquid magnesium chloride, the principal ingredient in that company’s de-icing product, the likely cargo. She arrived…
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Some more salt
Carver Marine Towing’s 3,000 HP tug Helen was northbound on the North River Sunday, bound for the Port of Coeymans with hopper barges loaded what I believe was salt lightered off a bulk ship anchored in the Upper Bay. Road salt is in demand up north as municipalities look to rebuild their stocks after a…
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New York Makes, the World Takes
New York State exports, both foreign and domestic, were moving down the North River this weekend after leaving the Port of Ablany. The Antigua-flagged superstructure-forward cargo ship BBC Bremen passed through after sundown Saturday, I believe loaded with components for onshore wind installations manufactured by GE Vernova in Schenectady and headed for Australia via the…
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