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Donjon Standby
Wednesday evening found DonJon Marine’s dredging team standing by with the tug Casey Ann and dredge Delaware Bay seemingly spudded down just outside the pier head line off North River Pier 86. Maintenance work at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal appears to perhaps be wrapping up or taking a pause. Further north, DonJon colleagues on Brian…
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Getting takeout
Dann Ocean’s Captain Dann, 53 years old and 2,250 HP, ran light up the North River early Wednesday morning. The Captain was heading for the Feeney shipyard in Kingston where they were likely collecting a barge. Monday morning finds her starting her week at the Vane Brothers dock at the mouth of the Gowanus Canal…
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Passing through at sunset
The bulk ship Sound Pearl, Bahamas-flagged and 615 feet in length, came down the North River at sundown Saturday evening, heading for anchorage in the Upper Bay after discharging a cargo at the Port of Coeymans. She had arrived there from Iskenderun, Turkey and I don’t know her cargo but a guess would be that…
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Dean of the fleet
The Dace Reinauer/RTC 62 ATB passed the remanent pilings of North River Pier 58 and the campus of Hoboken’s Stevens Institute en route to Albany with a New York Harbor products cargo on Friday. Dace is the dean of the Reinauer fleet, built in 1968 and the company’s oldest tug in service, though it has…
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A cargo for Albany
The Dean Reinauer/RTC 106 ATB, a 4,000 HP tug paired with a 108,000 barrel barge, were northbound on the North River on Thursday with a New York Harbor products cargo heading for Albany. By Friday morning, the unit was docked by the Buckeye terminal in Albany.
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Svend and receive
The heavy lift cargo ship Svend came up the North River Monday morning, heading for the Port of Albany and arriving from Rotterdam after first calling on Portsmouth, NH. She may have been delivering some type of project cargo or perhaps loading heavy equipment manufactured up north for export, though she did show an AIS…
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The Canmer, a small 6,000 deadweight ton tanker, was heading to sea after calling at the Buckeye terminal at the Port of Albany. Canmer had arrived from Guyana and after leaving New York proceeded to Halifax, NS and was leaving town appearing more heavily laden than when she arrived. This is not a tanker routing…
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Scrap Sunday
Carver Marine Towing’s Daisy Mae came down the North River on Sunday bringing hoppers loaded with scrap metal and one with some kind of aggregate down from the Port of Coeymans heading for the harbor.
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Stone run
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland came up the North River late afternoon Friday, passing the Stevens Institute on Castle Point in Hoboken with a light hopper heading for the Clinton Point quarry near Poughkeepsie. George returned on Sunday with a stone cargo heading for the materials dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and then continued out…
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Back for more
The Janice Anne Reinauer/RTC 103 ATB (4,400 HP tug with a 108,000 barrel barge) came down the North River Saturday evening, returning to the harbor after a run up to Albany. By Sunday morning, the unit appears to be loading a new cargo at a terminal in Perth Amboy on the Arthur Kill.
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Up from the depths
DonJon’s Delaware Bay dredge prepared to dump a load of mud from the bottom of the North River by Pier 88 into a scow on Thursday. Seasonal dredging at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal is underway to maintain 38 feet of depth at mean low water.
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On the cement trail
Dann Marine tug Coral Coast (56-years-old, 3,000 HP) came down the North River just before sunset on Thursday, passing Hoboken’s Stevens Institute and Jersey City with a loaded cement transporter barge from the plant in Ravenna, NY. Coral brought the tow to the distribution terminal on Flushing Bay in Queens, where they remain Friday morning.
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Thursday morning haze
Reinauer’s Josephine/RTC 83 ATB, a 4400 HP tug pinned to a 85,000 barrel barge, was Albany-bound on the North River in the Thursday morning haze after loading a New York Habor cargo overnight at Tremley Point on the Arthur Kill.
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Long may you run
The Army Corps of Engineers Drift Collection Vessel Driftmaster was on the North River in mid-April, on patrol for hazards to navigation brought down by the spring melt to be cleared with her big crane. Driftmaster was launched in the 1940s making it probably the oldest vessel regularly working in New York Harbor. We don’t…
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The Season of the Dredge
Returning to the North River this week finds twice-yearly seasonal dredging operations underway at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal. DonJon Marine crews are scooping up mud to maintain the 38-feet mean low-water depth between the piers in order to accommodate cruise ships and the naval vessels that will visit for then 250th Independence Day celebrations. On…
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Comparative bulk
NOT THE NORTH RIVER: A visit to another inland waterway this weekend found the Liberian flagged bulk ship Ocean Lorry departing New Orleans after loading a cargo at the Cargill terminal, I think probably some kind of grain. Lorry passed under the Crescent City Connection bridge and rounded Algiers Point heading for the Gulf of…
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From the archives: passing Lackawanna
FROM THE ARCHIVES: On this day last year, Dann Marine tug Sapphire Coast ran light down the North River, passing Hoboken’s Lackawanna Terminal. Sapphire had been up in Yonkers, assisting with sailing a dry bulk barge at the sugar refinery there and was returning to the harbor. The sugar plant had operated in Yonkers for…
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Coming south with cargo
Janice Ann Reinauer/RTC 103 ATB was southbound on the North River Monday, passing Weehawken’s Port Imperial with a cargo loaded up north, perhaps ethanol. The unit made a stop on the Arthur Kill before heading for New England. As of Friday morning, she is docked in New Haven.
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