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Adding salt
The Carver Companies tug Helen passed up the North River Friday afternoon, headed for her home port of Coeymans with a high-sided hopper barge loaded with prodigious amounts of what I believe was probably salt lightered off the bulk ship Astro Sanistra, in from Egypt and anchored in the Upper Bay off Bay Ridge. Erin…
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Teamwork at the terminal
The Dann Marine Towing tug Gulf Coast was on hand at North River Pier 90 at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal on Friday to help Vane Brothers tug Red Hook deliver a fuel barge alongside the Viking Mars. We have seen the 2,400 HP Gulf Coast occasionally this year, usually moving fuel to one of the…
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Local Patrol
Numerous Coast Guard and NYPD vessels were enforcing a full closure of the East River as world leaders gathered Tuesday at the UN, including local response boats, some of Bayonne’s black-hulled cutters, and the 154-foot fast response cutter William Chadwick down from Boston. Things were quieter on the North River, but the Sandy Hook patrol…
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Returning from a visit
Vane Brothers tug Patuxent ran light down the North River Tuesday afternoon, returning to the Vane base in Red Hook after traveling upriver to visit the Vane tug Philadelphia anchored with a barge off Spuyten Duyvil. They were perhaps delivering crew and/or equipment up there. On the left edge of the photo, the Mexican tall…
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Moving material
Haugland Group tug Miss Madeline brought a deck barge up the North River on Saturday morning loaded with construction material which I believe may be concrete mats for the Champlain Hudson Power Express installation underway at various points along the river. The barge and cargo was brought to Haugland’s small bulk cargo port up in…
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Cuauhtemoc is back
The Mexican navy tall ship Cuauhtémoc arrived on the North River Saturday late afternoon four months after her fatal accident on the East River and four days after leaving dry dock for sea trials. She docked at the end of Pier 86 with assistance from Henry Marine Service Inc. tugs in challenging lighting conditions for…
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A helping hand from security forces
Security gets tight in New York City ahead of UN Week in September. While most of the action is on the East Side and on the East River, the North River also gets its share of attention. On Friday afternoon, a pair of Coast Guard grey hulled RHIB type boats and 33-foot grey Coast Guard…
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Marine highway delivery
Ardmore Dauntless, a 38,000 deadweight-ton tanker, came up the North River Tuesday afternoon, arriving from Saint John’s, in New Brunswick, Canada. They went on to moor at the Innovative Surface Solutions plant located in Glenmont, south of Albany, which means magnesium chloride, the primary ingredient in the company’s deicing product, is a likely cargo. Innovative…
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Reinforcements
In a very unusual move, NYC’s DEP brought in a privately-owned sludge tanker barge, the Lisa, to move residual solids from the North River water treatment plant to the Passaic Valley plant in Newark for dewatering on Tuesday, with the tug Vinik No. 6 moving her. The city normally relies on its own fleet of…
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Let’s dredge again, like we did last summer
Donjon Marine’s distinctive blue livery was very much in evidence on the North River last week. In addition to regular work moving recycled paper collected by DSNY in Manhattan from Pier 99 to the recycling mill on Staten Island, seasonal dredging was underway at the cruise terminal. The cruise terminal quays are dredged regularly to…
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Foxy
Foxy 3, a 50-year old 1,600 HP tug owned by Fox Marine Services according to Tugboat Information .com, has been on the North River this month moving equipment and materials to and from a project site off of Spuyten Duyvil. The work there is likely part of the Champlain Hudson Power Express installation. The cable…
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Asphalt delivery
San Du Ao, a small 13,000 deadweight ton Hong Kong flagged bitumen tanker, came up the North River Friday evening, passing the GW Bridge, Spuyten Duyvil and J24 sailboat. The tanker was arriving from Colombia, not a very common point of origin for cargos coming up the Hudson, and was likely carrying asphalt. San Du…
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Salute
The 9/11 memorial events were underway downtown as Coast Guard icebreaker Penobscot Bay came up the North River as far as Pier 99 with her fire monitors running, passing the Lincoln Tunnel vents and a Donjon Marine crew working on seasonal dredging at the cruise terminal. In addition to providing a visual salute, Cutter 107…
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Hey, Big Fella
Stasinos Marine’s big tug Toula C was back on the shores of the Upper West Side again on Monday, helping the much smaller construction tug Big Fella maneuver barges at the 69th Street Transfer Bridge restoration work site. Big Fella, either named ironically or perhaps big compared with the other work boats it normally consorts…
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Providence bound
Dann Marine’s Pearl Coast brought a cement cargo from the plant in Coeymans down the North River on Monday morning. The 1978-vintage 5,600 HP tug brought its barge around the Battery, out through the Gate and headed for Providence where they arrived at the cement terminal on Sassafras Point Tuesday morning.
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First cruise
Virgin’s newest cruise ship Brilliant Lady made its debut voyage with passengers from North River Pier 90 in the Manhattan Cruise Terminal on Friday evening. The Brilliant Lady, an adults-only ship without all the amusement park attractions we see on other new ships calling on NYC, was heading for Bermuda where she arrived Sunday afternoon.…
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