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Special delivery
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland came down the North River Monday morning with da cargo of crushed stone from the Clinton Point quarry near Poughkeepsie loaded on one of the company’s barges. Daily stone shipments from Clinton Point are usually brought by Buchanan Marine to moorings off Jersey City, but George brought this shipment straight through…
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Apres le deluge
The North River was mirror flat in light northeast wind Tuesday morning and still flowing to sea just after low tide after Monday night’s massive thunderstorms and flooding. Alexandros P, a 656-foot Liberia-flagged bulk ship, came through heading for the Port of Coeymans. Alexandros originated in Garrucha, Spain, which makes gypsum a likely cargo, perhaps…
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Delivery or pickup
The cargo ship Bertha A. Desgagnes passed to the west of the Gateway coffer dam and to the east of Steven’s Institute of Technology Tuesday evening, heading for sea after calling in Albany. Bertha was likely delivering a project cargo or picking up some large cargo up there in Albany for export. As of Sunday…
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Back in fashion
Harbour Fashion, a compact 475-foot 17,000 deadweight ton products tanker came up the North River Wednesday afternoon, arriving from Montreal and heading for the Buckeye terminal in Albany. We have seen this vessel on this route moving between Canada and Albany before and she may be collecting ethanol for export back to Canada or else…
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Spreading the work
Work on the Gateway project coffer dam off Pier 66 gets spread out across a range of local towing companies. On Monday evening, Carver’s Erin Elizabeth was on site making up to a barge. The next morning, one of project manager Weeks Marine’s own tugs was there along with Henry Marine’s Henry Girls. In the…
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Peeling back layers
Work is well underway now on the restoration of the old New York Central 69th Street transfer bridge. Workers have built a scaffolding and removed the non-historic sheet metal exterior and netting leaving the original iron work exposed. Down below two weeks ago, a fisherman who had been trespassing on the spud barges tried in…
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Cement mixer
Dann Marine’s Coral Coast came down the North River last Monday, passing Hoboken with a loaded cement transporter barge. Cement manufactured at the Ravenna, NY plant is brought south by barge to terminals in NY Harbor and sometimes continues up the Sound to distribution hubs in New England. The day this photo was taken marked…
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Adding salt
CMT’s Erin Elizabeth came up the North River Tuesday, heading for Coeymans with what I believe was probably a cargo of Egyptian salt lightered off a bulk ship in the Upper Bay. They passed the Reinauer Twins/RTC 104 ATB at anchor off North Bergen, NJ. As of Saturday morning, Erin is back in NY Harbor…
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Summer time blues
Summer is a busy time for the FDNY’s Marine Battalion. On Wednesday evening, Marine 1 worked to secure a wrecked jet ski to a floating dock at Pier 83. The Marine Battalion chief’s boat came up from Brooklyn as well and is visible in the background in the photo below. The jet ski had struck…
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Project work
Stasinos tug Charles James ran light up the North River Wednesday morning heading for Haverstraw Bay. The tug spent some time at the spot where the Champlain Hudson Power Express cable will re-enter the Hudson off Congers after running on shore through Rockland County so perhaps Charles’s voyage related to that project. CHPE has been…
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Working on the dam
Maddie K., a 47-year old, 2,000 HP tug operated by New York State Marine Highway Transportation, was on the North River Thursday, maneuvering barges at the Gateway Tunnel project’s large coffer dam off Pier 66. Work is underway here to reinforce the riverbed in preparation for digging the new rail tunnel below. The dam currently…
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After delivery
The cargo ship BBC Ukraine was on the North River passing the Galaxy Apartments in Guttenberg, NJ on a very hot Monday evening. She was heading for sea and her next port of call Portsmouth, NH after unloading a pair of transformers which I believe originated in Asia at the Port of Albany. The big…
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Navigational perch
A double crested cormorant sat atop Hudson River lighted buoy number 3 off Riverdale on Wednesday evening. This buoy marks the western edge of 35’+ deep channel here. Towards the Jersey shoreline from here low tide depths taper from the 20’s to the teens on charts.
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