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Cormorants are back
Double-crested cormorants have been fishing off the end of Pier i this week. These birds return to the North River every spring after wintering down south and feast on fish coming up the river to spawn.
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Passing Lackawanna
The Janice Ann Reinauer/RTC 84 ATB passed Hoboken’s Lackawanna terminal in light rain on Thursday afternoon. The unit was now underway but the crew would have just witnessed a tragic helicopter accident or the immediate aftermath of the crash a bit south of here and had been holding position for over an hour mid-river near…
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Helicopter Crash
A helicopter has crashed on the North River this afternoon, with the aircraft falling into the water near the Jersey City shoreline by the Holland Tunnel vents. The Coast Guard confirmed that all occupants were killed, including one pilot and five passengers. The AP reports the FDNY said the call came in at 3:17 p.m.…
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Getting ready for summer cruising
Seasonal dredging is underway again at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal to maintain the listed quay depth of 36 feet (or deeper). DonJon’s Delaware Bay clamshell dredge and tug Casey Ann were between North River Piers 86 and 88 on Wednesday afternoon.
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New Kid in Town
Norwegian Cruise Line’s newest ship Norwegian Aqua made its inaugural departure from North River Pier 88 on Wednesday, heading for Florida after crossing the Atlantic in March. Her christening ceremony will be held in Miami on Sunday but she will be based in NYC this autumn for cruises to Bermuda. The ever-multiplying towers of Journal…
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Commuting
Janet D, a 1320 HP tug belonging to Construction and Marine Equipment of Elizabeth, has been making trips up to the Yonkers sugar plant from her base on the Arthur Kill with a deck barge, presumably for some work happening up there.
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Nostalgia
A Metro North P32AC pulled a “MaxiBomb” consist (7 Bombardier passenger cars) through Riverdale on the Hudson Division in Sunday morning fog. The engine wears a heritage wrap commemorating the days when Conrail ran commuter service here between 1976 and 1982. The blue and yellow New York State colors which once adorned Conrail’s old FL9…
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Arriving from down south
Thomas Dann arrived on the North River from offshore on Saturday with the deck barge CBC Savanah on the wire. Thomas had come up the coast from Charleston and was heading for the Port of Coeymans, perhaps to pick up some project cargo there.
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Spuyten Duyvil
The Reinauer Twins/RTC 104 ATB (4,000 HP tug with a 413’ barge) passed the Henry Hudson Bridge and the Amtrak swing bridge over Spuyten Duyvil on a hazy Sunday aftteroon, leaving what I consider the upper limits North River (though the name is applied by some to the entire length of the Hudson to Albany…
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Chilean Salt with Chinese flag
The 620-foot bulk ship Sheng Ping Hai was headed for sea Friday afternoon after discharging a cargo of Chilean road salt at the Port of Coeymans earlier in the week. The administration has a proposal under consideration to levy significant port fees on Chinese flagged and operated vessels like this one which could change logistics…
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On the hip in heavy winds
Dann’s Coral Coast had a light cement barge on the hip in heavy winds on the North River on Saturday. Coral was bringing the barge back to the Holcim plant in Ravenna NY for more product after unloading at terminals in NY Harbor. The Ravenna plant is the only cement plant still operating on the…
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See a tug, think ship
Moran tugs running light up the North River usually singnal there is some action coming at the wallboard plant in Buchanan NY. Sure enough, a few hours after Mary Turecamo passed by Sunday, the 656-foot bulk ship Eastern Venture came through, Buchanan-bound with a cargo of Spanish gypsum, the principal raw material in wallboard. The…
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Punching the clock
The Army Corps of Engineers driftwood collection vessel Gelberman exited the North River after a patrol on Wednesday. Gelberman was passing the office towers and Colgate Clock of Paulus Hook in Jersey City, the former site of Colgate-Palmolive’s HQ and factory complex until the 1980s. Container cranes in Bayonne are visible in the distance.
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