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Picking up scrap
Strategic Spirit, a 610–foot Singapore flagged bulk ship came up the North River Wednesday morning. They were heading for the Sims Metal dock in Albany where they arrived Thursday afternoon and will presumably load scrap for export overseas. In the photo, they pass the Curtis Reinauer/RTC 82 ATB anchored off North Bergen.
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Cement Delivery
Dann’s Treasure Coast brought a loaded cement barge down from the Holcim cement plant in Ravenna, NY on Monday. They passed the Haggerty Girls/RTC 107 ATB anchored off Edgewater and were heading for the Holcim cement distribution terminal in College Point, Queens, at the mouth of Flushing Creek. The GWB’s Veterans Day flag is visible…
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Joining the fleet
The newly commissioned USS John Basilone left Pier 88 Tuesday morning and headed for her new homeport of Norfolk. After Saturday’s commissioning ceremony and Monday’s Veterans Day commemorations, the Basilone joins the fleet as the 72nd Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer which form the mainstay of the modern navy’s surface combat fleet.
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Janice Ann makes a quick visit
The Janice Ann Reinauer/RTC 103 combination caught the morning light as they made a wide turn with the ebb tide off North Bergen Monday morning. The ATB had made a brief detour up the North River on the way back from New Haven before turning and heading for the Kills and, probably, a new cargo…
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Birds of a feather
It’s not common to see two DEP sludge tankers on the North River at the same time. On any particular day, we usually see one of the fleet of five tankers servicing the North River plant. But on Wednesday, the Hunts Point tanker was arriving just as the Red Hook was leaving with a cargo…
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Crane Delivery
Dann Marine’s Gulf Coast, I believe based on the Delaware River and not seen recently seen on the North River, came up from Philly with Weeks Crane 533 on the wire on Wednesday. Haugland’s Miss Madeline joined the tow in New York Harbor and the trio continued up north to the Hudson, NY area on…
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Coast Guard Drive-By
Coast Guard Cutter John Patterson, one of the six new Fast Response Cutters based in Boston, made a trip up the Hudson this week. They came up the Jersey coast, travelled upriver as far as about West Point, and then headed back out, leaving town via Hell Gate and Long Island Sound before calling on…
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Cement delivery from Turkey
On Wednesday, the 580-foot bulk ship SSI Magnificent came up the North River with a cargo of cement from Turkey. They were heading for the cement terminal in Cementon, NY in the Town of Catskill, a bit south of Albany, after first stopping for a few days to partially discharge cargo at the terminal in…
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Extra help
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland occasionally fills in for or augments the daily work of Buchanan12 bringing crushed stone down from the Clinton Point quarry south of Poughkeepsie to New York Harbor. On Wednesday, both tugs were working this route, with George bringing stone down overnight and passing B12 on the North River on the way…
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Naval visitor
The USS Basilone, the Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer, arrived at Pier 88 today ahead of Saturday’s commissioning ceremony. After the ceremony, Basilone will head for Norfolk, her new home port.
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Boston heads for Newburgh
Boston Marine Towing’s Pinuccia was back on the North River Saturday, heading for Newburgh’s Global Terminal with a products cargo loaded on tank barge New York 30. They were passing Port Imperial just after noon. Boston’s two tugs have been seen on the river quite a bit as we move into heating oil season, but…
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Ships that pass
The municipal tanker Rockaway was heading for the North River water treatment plant Saturday morning and preparing to pass the Greek-flagged supply ship Astrea. Astrea has been working on the Champlain Hudson Power Express project further north and was returning to Port Newark, probably for resupply or service. Rockaway was going to load a cargo…
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Exporting scrap
NOTE: I have moved away from long form posts on this Blog for the time being and have been doing shorter updates on the Blog’s Facebook and Instagram feeds. Going forward, I will add those posts here as well. Canny Caroline, a 575 foot bulk ship, came up the North River Thursday morning, heading for…
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The Return of LCU 1657
NOTE: I have moved away from long form posts on this Blog for the time being and have been doing shorter updates on the Blog’s Facebook and Instagram feeds. Going forward, I will try to add those posts here as well. Landing Craft Utility 1657 came up the North River Thursday, in tow with a…
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Tuesday September 10–unexpected appearance of the barge Udalls Cove
The NYC Department of Environmental Protection’s barge Udalls Cove dates back to a time in the 1980s when treated sewage sludge was still hauled 100 miles out to sea for dumping. Nowadays, sludge is ferried between D.E.P. plants by small tankers and converted to a fertilizer product, and the Udalls Cove barge usually sits tied…
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Friday September 6–Goodbye Summer
The North River has been busy in the days following Labor Day, with oil products and dry bulk on the move.
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Thursday August 8–Running light
Heavy weather sitting over the region has kept demand elevated for anchorage space on the North River and up in Yonkers. A number of tugs have been seen running light over the past 48 hours, heading to or from assist jobs in Westchester or relieving tugs with barges anchored on the river.
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Tuesday August 6 2024–Storm coming
Activity on the North River tends to pick up ahead of big storm systems as tugs with tanker barges head for anchorages on the estuary to escape the weather and vessels come in from offshore work. With a line of thunderstorms moving into the area and the after effects of hurricane Debby moving up the…
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