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Bronx bound
Sound Marine of Nyack’s 680 HP tug Matthew G brought a hopper barge loaded with aggregate down from the quarry dock in Hudson NY. They were heading for Hunts Point in the Bronx and the location of the new Con Agg terminal being built at that site, making this one of the first or perhaps…
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Getting metal
Kallisti GS, a 575-foot Portugal-flagged bulk ship, came up the North River Tuesday afternoon with her hatches vented. She was arriving from Turkey after first calling in Providence and was heading for the scrap dock in Rensselaer where she will likely load metal for export back to Turkey. The metal may return to us some…
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Back to Yonkers
The Dann Marine tug East Coast headed up the North River running light, heading back to the Yonkers sugar refinery to rejoin a barge left there as the tug visited Bayonne, probably to refuel. The Yonkers plant is scheduled to close by the end of this year but seems to still be receiving regular deliveries…
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Contemplating Guttenberg
I was looking across the North River at the lovely condo townhouses and walking path arrayed below the 1976 vintage Galaxy Towers in tiny Guttenberg, NJ as I photographed the Coast Guard Cutter Katherine Walker passing by this morning. I found myself thinking about what the area must have been like in its industrial heyday…
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On the cement route
Chrysanthe, a 580-foot Marshall Islands flagged bulk ship, came down the North River in late October, heading for the Narrows with her hatches vented after discharging a cargo of Turkish cement at the import terminal in Cementon, NY, the site of a former cement manufacturing plant. Chrysanthe had previously called in Providence to discharge cement,…
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Stopping back in
Dann Marine’s Calusa Coast is anchored on the North River off Edgewater with covered hopper barge DMT 9000 this week. She is usually based in Baltimore I believe, and may have ducked in on the way back from a run to Boston, similar to the last time we saw her anchored on the river in…
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Patrol boats on patrol
Coast Guard 87-foot cutter Bonito, the Sandy Hook patrol boat, came up the North River on Tuesday and travelled as far as the Tappan Zee before circling back and staying overnight on the Coast Guard mooring south of the GW Bridge. Bonito left the next day and headed for Manhasset Bay on Long Island Sound,…
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Sugar substitute
Balsa 89 came up the North River last week heading for the Port of Coeymans. Usually when we see these small Dowa Line bulkers on the river they are heading for Yonkers with sugar cargos, but this time Balsa 89 went straight through to Coeymans. Her port of origin was Jamaica and I don’t have…
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Variety pack
The Carver Companies towboat Erin Elizabeth seemed to have a little bit of everything as she arrived on the North River heading for the harbor on Sunday morning, with scrap, stone, sand, and a spud barge all visible in addition to whatever was in the high-sided hopper barge. Erin was passing the historic Alpine radio…
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A Room with a View
The big Barbara Carol Ann Moran ATB, a 5,100 HP tug paired with a 468-foot tank barge, has been anchored off Yonkers for the past week or so after returning from a trip to the Gulf with a products cargo for Albany earlier in the month. On Sunday morning the crew had a good view…
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Two hundred years of canal
The Seneca Chief, a replica of the first barge to travel on the Erie Canal from Buffalo to New York Harbor 200 years ago, arrived on the North River at the end here symbolic journey Saturday commerorating the canal’s bicentennial anniversary. She was in tow with the CL Churchill, a 33-foot 1964 vintage tugboat owned…
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Heavy machinery
The cargo ship BBC Sebastopol headed up the North River Thursday morning heading for the Port of Albany. These BBC ships are often heading north to load heavy equipment manufactured upstate for export, including products made by GE/GE Vernova in Schenectady but these also sometimes deliver heavy materials for projects being staged up north like…
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Just a little more sugar please
Dann Marine’s Ruby Coast had the dry bulk barge Knot Refined, the newest and largest of ASR’s fleet of sugar carriers, en route to Yonkers and loaded with Florida crystals. This could be the last or one of the last times we see this barge on the North River as the Yonkers refinery is slated…
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Following summer
The tractor tug Johnathan C. Moran was working at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal on Tuesday, assisting the relatively small 465-foot cruise ship Le Boreal leaving the piers. Le Boreal called in New York after cruising in Arctic and Canadian waters and is now en route to its southern hemisphere cruising season running trips from Argentina…
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Salt goes up, stone comes down
Carver Companies’ Daisy Mae headed north on Friday, exiting the north end of the North River with hoppers loaded with what I believe was salt lightered off a bulker in from Egypt anchored in the Upper Bay. On her return trip two days later, she brought back a stone cargo, heading for the Bay Ridge…
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More bulk
Continuing what has already been a heavy month of foreign flag ship traffic up the North River, the Amis Queen, a 650-foot Panama flag bulker, passed Washington Heights, the Cloisters, and Spuyten Duyvil en route to the Port of Coeymans. The ship was arriving from Italy and cargo is unknown, though another salt delivery or…
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