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Heavy lift
The Donjon Marine heavy tug Douglas J (4,800 HP) brought the company’s massive Chesapeake 1000 crane down the North River on Friday, with the low-slung tug J. Arnold Witte providing an escort. The crane was being brought back from a heavy-lift job at the Port of Albany, perhaps moving a piece of heavy GE equipment…
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Here’s Donny
Wednesday brought another tug I’ve not seen before up the North River. Donny F McAllister, who I believe normally works out of Philadelphia, has been at the McAllister yard on Staten Island this summer and this week she took a short run upriver as far as Englewood before coming back, at first a speed, outpacing…
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Park view
The tug Liz Vinik was back at the North River water treatment plant with the sludge barge Maria alongside on Wednesday. Maria was loading residual solids (sludge) for dewatering at the Passaic Valley water treatment plant on Newark Bay. The North River plant is most often serviced by the city’s own fleet of tankers but…
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Wall Street on the North River
The Prospect Park/MAM 80 ATB, a 5,000 HP tug paired with a 400’ /80,000 barrel barge,has been on the North River this week, moving between anchorage off Yonkers and the Upper Bay with the barge looking light. This is the first time I have seen this unit which I believe normally operates in the Gulf…
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A rose by any other name
A rose by any other name…Tuesday finds the ATB formerly known as Jordan Rose at anchor in the North River, now wearing @vanebrotherscompany livery and apparently renamed Castine and with the barge called Double Skin 550 rather than RCM 252. Vane acquired the Jordan Rose and Susan Rose ATB units this year from the owners…
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Norfolk Tug’s George Holland has continued to run stone cargos from the Clinton Point quarry down the North River this month with the company’s barge Ellie. On Wednesday morning, George passed the Lincoln Tunnel helix, I believe heading for the aggregate pier at Brooklyn Navy Yard. By Thursday morning, George is on the way north…
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Working the dam
Work at the Gateway Tunnel North River cofferdam continues to employ a wide range of towing companies. On Thursday, New York State Marine Highway’s Sarah D, a 50 year old 2,000 HP tug, was moving barges at the site.
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Welcome back big guy
The Christian Reinauer/RTC 145, one of the biggest ATBs operating from New York Harbor, came up the North River under threatening skies Thursday as thunderstorms passed by to the north. The unit was returning from a trip down to a terminal in Cape Canaveral, Florida with the 150,000 barrel barge now looking light and headed…
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Sirius work
The bulk ship Sirius, 590-feet long and Marshall Islands flagged, was northbound on the North River last Friday, arriving from the Caribbean. She was heading for the Sims Metals dock at the Port of Albany where she likely loaded scrap for export, with her AIS reported draft increasing by about 5 feet while moored there.…
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Help is on the way
If you see a pair of Moran tugs come up the North River past the cruise terminal, it usually means there is assist work to be done at the wallboard plant in Buchanan. This was the case on Wednesday evening with Margaret and Laura K. Moran heading for the factory to help dock a bulker.…
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Have rock, will travel
The subsea rock laying vessel Acadia came down the North River laden with stone as weather conditions deteriorated Tuesday afternoon. It was little over a week after I caught the brand-new ship making her debut voyage north. In the interim she had loaded something like 20,000 tons of stone at the Port of Coeymans, visible…
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ATBs heading north
ATB units were moving oil products north with the flood tide on the North River on Friday afternoon, with the Curtis Reinauer/RTC 82 coming through first followed by Kirby’s Cape Hatteras paired I believe with DBL 81. Both units were Albany-bound and seen passing the Hudson Yards towers in the photos.
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Empire Builders
Heavy lift ship BBC Fuji came down the North River Thursday evening, heading for sea and signaling Saudi Arabia as her next port of call after leaving Albany early in the morning. Her destination and the fact that AIS reported draft increased a bit while moored in Albany suggests she may have loaded electrical generating…
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An evening at the dam
An evening cocktail at the Yacht Club bar atop the old Starret Lehigh freight terminal provides a great vantage point for watching activity at the Gateway Tunnel coffer dam. As noted in the past, the project seems to spread work across all the non-petroleum hauler tow companies working in the harbor. Late afternoon on Wednesday,…
North River Notes 