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Mineral resources
A Dann Marine tug had a light cement transporter barge in tow on the hip heading back to the cement plant in Ravenna last Sunday. She passed the Buchanan12 on one whistle with her usual loads of crushed dolomite heading from the Clinton Point quarry to the Jersey City flats. The Hudson Valley’s rich mineral…
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Project supply
Miller’s Launch tug Michael Miller stemmed off Hoboken on Tuesday with a barge loaded with silos of concrete for the Gateway Tunnel riverbed stabilization project a bit further north. Two days later, attorneys for the states of New York and New Jersey were back in federal court facing off against the federal government and arguing…
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Farewell North River
The bulk ship Icarian Spire, Bahamas-flagged, was exiting the North River on Tuesday afternoon, passing Hoboken and Jersey City and heading for sea. The 590-foot vessel was in ballast after discharging a cargo at the Port of Coeymans, possibly salt. She is signaling Savannah as her next port of call.
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Containers on deck
The cargo ship BBC Minnesota came up the North River on Sunday afternoon with shipping containers on deck along with whatever cargo was stored in the holds, heading for Port of Albany and arriving from Antwerp. Ships like this are usually are either delivering or collecting project cargo from Albany. The shipping containers could be…
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Help is on the way
When we see Moran Towing Corporation tugs leaving the harbor and traveling up the North River beyond the cruise terminal it usually means there is assist work to do at the wallboard plant up in Buchanan, New York. This was the case on Saturday when Margaret and Miriam Moran passed by on their way to…
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Private sludge
Vinik Transportation was moving residual sludge from New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection North River plant to the Passaic Valley plant in Newark for de-watering. The tug Liz Vinik, last seen clearing ice around Pier 98 a few months ago, had the privately-owned sludge barge Maria in tow on the hip, passing Weehawken in…
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French frigate
The French navy’s newest frigate, the Amiral Ronarc’h arrived in New York this weekend and has docked on the south side of North River Pier 88. The ship is the first of its class of defense and intervention frigates (FDI) and is on a trial deployment in the far north and western Atlantic. The visit…
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Survey says…
A survey team was working in the shuttered 79th Street Boat Basin Marina in late March, perhaps a sign that the long-awaited rebuilding project currently in the permitting phase is getting closer to starting construction. With 79th Street out of action since 2021, the Dyckman Street Marina uptown now closed for rebuilding, and the North…
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Simply Marvelous
The bulk ship SSI Marvelous came up the North River Monday morning, the first of two bulkers to pass through within a half hour of each other. Unlike most of the bulk ships we see this time of year which are bringing salt to the Port of Coeymans, Marvelous was carrying cement and heading for…
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Time for some yard work
Deborah Quinn, a 1962-vintage 2,200 HP tug with classic lines, ran up the North River early Monday morning, heading for the shipyard in Kingston NY. Deborah is owned by Breakwater Marine Construction according to the Tugboatinformation website and I believe she has mainly been working on the East River resiliency project on the East Side…
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Thundering Typhoons!
Thundering typhoons! The bulk ship Captain Haddock came up the North River Monday, Port of Coeymans bound and partially laden with salt after lightering off some cargo in the Upper Bay to Carver Marine barges last month and then killing some time at Ambrose Anchorage. The Captain is no doubt named for Belgian graphic novelist…
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Cement season
Cement is moving on the North River this month as construction activity ramps up with the spring thaw. Dann Marine’s Pearl Coast came down from the Amrize cement plant in Ravenna, NY on the first day of April with a loaded cement transporter. Pearl and other Dann tugs make regular runs down the Hudson delivering…
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Season of the Brant
The brant are back. Every spring, brant geese spend some time on the North River as they begin their migration back to the Canadian arctic from their winter homes along the Jersey or Long Island shorelines. On Saturday, there were large numbers of these birds, which look like smaller versions of our local Canada geese,…
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Unburdened youth
The bulk ship Amis Youth (not Aimless Youth), 650 feet in length and Liberia flagged, came down the North River Friday morning heading for sea. Youth was in ballast and drawing less than 30 feet after discharging a cargo at the Port of Coeymans. Bulk ship traffic on the river has been heavy this spring,…
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On Haverstraw Bay
Dann Ocean’s Captain Dann ran light up Haverstraw Bay on Saturday morning, having come up from the North River heading for the shipyard in Kingston, probably to collect a barge. After a quick turn, the tug came back downriver, left town and headed for Philly, probably to deliver the barge she probably collected. By then…
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Loaded
The Haggerty Girls/ RTC 107 ATB was anchored in the North River on Saturday with the 107,000 barrel barge looking loaded. We don’t see loaded barges at anchor very often but we do occasionally. The unit has been back and forth between the North River and the Arthur Kill for the rest of the week.
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Pulp fact
The cargo ship Timber Navigator, Dutch-flagged and 387 feet long, was Albany-bound on the North River on the last day of March. Arriving from Sweden, she is likely carrying wood pulp headed for northeast paper mills. By Wednesday morning she was approaching her destination having anchored off Hyde Park overnight.
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In ballast
The Liberian-flagged 650-foot long bulk ship Aquagemini came down the North River heading for sea on Monday morning. The ship was in ballast and drawing less than 25 feet after discharging a cargo from Egypt at the Port of Coeymans, probably salt. By Tuesday morning she is well offshore and heading southeast.
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Running light past the cliffs
Poling & Cutler’s Evelyn Cutler ran light up the North River on Saturday afternoon, passing the Palisades at Englewood Cliffs and heading for the IPT terminal in Rensselaer. Kimberly Poling was there at the same time, and Evelyn perhaps took over her barge as Kimberly subsequently headed for the shipyard in Kingston. As of Monday…
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