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Equipment move
Stasinos tug Toula C and the small tug Jessica Francis brought a crane barge down the North River on Saturday afternoon. They were heading back to the harbor after leaving the basin between Pier 90 and 92 where an additional temporary finger pier, Pier 91, composed of spud barges is being constructed to dock visiting…
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Working the blue highway
Donjon Marine tug Brian Nicholas was standing by at the DSNY Pier 99 transfer station on Friday. Waste paper collected in Manhattan is brought by sanitation trucks to this pier. Paper is transferred to barges and towed to a recycling mill on the Staten Island shore of the Arthur Kill where it is repurposed into…
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Just do it
Miller’s Launch tug Shawn Miller took on some promotional work on Thursday, towing a barge with an advertising banner up the North River as far as the GW bridge and back. The Hallo New Jersey billboard is paid for by Nike and highlights the German national football team’s switch to Nike from adidas according to…
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Birds of a feather
More than one big ocean-going ATB came up the North River to anchor during Monday night’s storm. In addition to Kirby’s Sea Hawk/ATC 21 unit featured on Tuesday, we also had Moran’s Barney Turecamo/Georgia at anchorage up in Yonkers with the barge looking loaded. The 5,100 HP tug and 427-foot 110,000 barrel barge Moran unit…
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Getting scrap
The Marshall Islands flag bulk ship SSI Providence came up the North River on Tuesday morning, arriving from the UK in ballast. She was heading for the Sims Metal dock at the Port of Albany and will likely be loading scrap for export overseas.
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Big visitor
Tuesday morning found the big Kirby Sea Hawk / ATC 21 ATB emerging from the fog on the North River opposite Port Imperial. The unit had dropped anchor a bit south of the usual North River anchorage area after returning from Boston during the heavy rains late Monday. With an 8,000 HP tug and a…
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Reinauer parking
Monday morning finds a pair of Reinauer ATBs at anchor on the North River having stopped here on the way back from product deliveries in Albany. The Janice Ann / RTC 103 unit, a 4,400 HP tug paired with a 108,000 barrel barge, was off Guttenberg, while sitting at anchor about half a mile north…
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Made in New York
Island Trader, an 800-HP tug owned by Stevens Towing of South Carolina, came down the North River heading for the Upper Bay with a deck barge loaded with a shrink-wrapped piece of heavy equipment. This is likely something manufactured by GE in Schenectady and transferred to a barge at the Port of Albany. From here…
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Getting stone
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland, 18 years old and 3,000 HP, was northbound on the North River with the company’s hopper barge Ellen on Tuesday morning. The tow was en route to the Clinton Point quarry just south of Poughkeepsie where they would likely be loading a stone cargo for delivery back in New York Harbor.
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Remember Hess
Sea Wolf Marine tugs Sea Fox and Sea Lion brought a construction barge down the North River on Sunday from the work site at the location of the old Hess tanks in Edgewater, NJ. The green tanks were a landmark on that stretch of the river for decades but have been gone for over 10…
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Decommissioning
Donjon tugs Douglas J (4,800 HP) and Paul Andrew (1,200 HP) brought the company’s big Chesapeake 1000 crane down the North River on Thursday afternoon, passing Guttenberg on the way back to the harbor after heavy lift work at the old Yonkers sugar refinery. My guess is that work there probably relates to decommissioning the…
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Event parking
Work is underway this week on a new temporary docking structure between unused North River Piers 90 and 92. With the big Sail250 celebration just a few weeks away, the city is working to increase pier space for visiting tall ships and a group of four connected spud barges will provided a home for several…
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Made in New York
Dann Marine’s Pearl Coast, 48 years old and 5,600 HP, has been moving cement from the Amrize cement plant near Ravenna NY, to terminals in New England over the past month. On Monday, Pearl came up the North River with a light cement transporter barge, heading back to the plant for more product after offloading…
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Dress rehearsal
A French Air Force A400M Atlas tanker and eight French alpha jet fighters flew down the North River Tuesday morning, with the fighters trailing red, white and blue smoke. The flight originated at Stewart, circled the Statue and headed for Virginia. The planes are part of the Patrouille de France, the official aerobatic demonstration team…
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Rabbit Rabbit
The venerable Dace Reinauer/ RTC 62 ATB unit came down the North River on the first day of June, returning from a final May delivery up north. A week later on Monday morning Dace is back in New York Harbor on the Kill van Kull having been up and back to Rensselaer and Newburgh in…
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