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Waiting for paper
Paul Andrew was standing by with a waste paper scow at DSNY’s Pier 99 transfer station on Tuesday morning. Waste paper collected in Manhattan is brought from here to a recycling mill on Staten Island along the Arthur Kill.
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Just visiting
Centerline’s Andrea paid a visit to the Con Ed fuel dock at North River Pier 98 on Tuesday morning. Possibly they were dropping off crew or equipment for the HMS 2605 barge which remains tied up there adjacent to the GCS 230 barge, holding back-up fuel for the 59th Street steam plant nearby.
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Sweet Monday
A cargo of sugar arrived on the North River from the Dominican Republic just after sunrise on Monday morning aboard the Panama-flagged bulker Century Melody. They were heading for the refinery in Yonkers. The plant there has been operating for over 100 years and also receives domestic sugar deliveries via U.S. flagged barges.
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Heavy lifting
Atlantic Salvor had DonJon’s big Chesapeake 1000 crane in tow coming up the North River on Sunday en route to Port of Albany for a heavy lift job.
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Joined at the hip
Patrice McAllister had RCM 262 on the hip as she left anchorage and headed for the Upper Bay on a sunny Friday morning this week.
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Just stopping by
Among the familiar ATBs and tug/barge pairs getting out of the wind in the North River anchorages was one not seen in a while. Dann’s Calusa coast seems to normally work out of Baltimore but was anchored off Edgewater this week with a tank barge, possibly having ducked in on the way back from a…
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Hello old friend
The Army Corps of Engineers workboat Hayward was back on the North River this week, the first time I have seen her in two years. Hayward was once an almost daily presence, collecting hazards to navigation with her big crane. In past years, I have also seen her carrying the flag in Fleet Week parades,…
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Visitor from New Bedford (Updated)
The tug Sitka, appropriately named for a very cold Wednesday morning, came up the North River just after sunrise. Running light, the out of town visitor was arriving from her home port of New Bedford and signaling Kingston, so probably heading for the Feeney Shipyard there and perhaps collecting a barge being worked on. The…
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Import or export
Dutch-flagged cargo ship Singelgracht was on the North River bound for Port of Albany on Sunday morning, arrivng from Finland. She’ll likely be either delivering some project cargo up there or loading some heavy machinery for export.
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Ready for winter weather
Coast Guard icebreaking tug Penobscot Bay headed up the North River Saturday, making prodigious amounts of smoke as usual. The cutter was heading upriver ahead of winter weather coming in this week and, after stopping for some time in Haverstraw Bay, was continuing north under the Newburgh Beacon Bridge by Monday morning.
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Holiday blues
DonJon’s Thomas D. Witte was standing by on the south side of the DSNY Pier 99 transfer station, about a week before Christmas. The end of Con Ed’s Pier 98 fuel dock is visible on the right.
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Just visiting
Vane tug Cape Fear tied up alongside the dilapidated North River Pier 92 on a quiet Thursday at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal this past week. Pier 92 was taken out of service for structural reasons several years ago, but the cruise terminal is set to release a 30-year master plan next year and indications are…
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Heading back to the harbor
Metropolitan Marine’s Pegasus came down the North River Wednesday morning. She was returning from assisting with docking a barge at the Yonkers sugar plant.
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Arriving light
Easterly As Omaria, a small 20k deadweight ton foreign-flagged tanker came up the North River early Wednesday en route to a terminal in Albany from Canada. She was very high in the water and one possibility is that she will be loading an ethanol cargo for export back to Canada.
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