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Below the cliffs, amidst the ice
The Vane Brothers tug Philadelphia and barge DS 601 have spent the past few days anchored amid the ice flows on the North River. In the photo, they are sitting below the cliffs of the Bergen Hill in North Bergen on Wednesday.
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Passing the clock
The Chios Sunrise, a 625-foot Marshall Islands-flagged bulk ship, entered the icy North River Thursday afternoon, passing Jersey City. She was bound for the wallboard plant in Buchanan, NY with a cargo of gypsum loaded in Garrucha, Spain three weeks ago. The CertainTeed plant in Buchanan is one of two factories on the Westchester shoreline…
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Moving through ice
NY State Marine Highway’s Nathan G moved up the North River through ice flows with a hopper barge Wednesday. This week has seen the most significant ice accumulation on the lower Hudson in years.
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Bulk from North Africa
The 655’ Hong Kong-flagged bulk ship Feng Shou Hai arrived on the North River Saturday from Algeria, heading for the Port of Coeymans with an unknown bulk cargo. The passed the Army Corp’s Gelberman on patrol for hazards to navigation.
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Ice, Ice Baby
There is ice on the Hudson this morning along the West Side of Manhattan, the first time in a few years we have seen this much. There has been plenty of ice up north for the past few weeks and the Coast Guard has been busy up there but it’s only now reaching us down…
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Working weekend
A new floating drydock constructed at the Feeney Shipyard in Kingston NY was brought down the North River Saturday evening by Stasinos Marine and delivered to its owners, Hughes Marine, at their base in Erie Basin. According to Hughes, this is possibly the first new drydock installed in Brooklyn in over 100 years. My nighttime…
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Time on the river
Poling-Cutler’s Kristin Poling spent some time this week anchored off West New York with the barge Eva Leigh Cutler. Seen in the photo early Thursday with the Galaxy Apartments of Guttenberg in the background.
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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.
North River Notes 