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Next customer
Angele N, a 625-foot bulk ship, was light and heading for sea as she passed Weehawken Friday afternoon after discharging her cargo of Spanish gypsum at the wallboard plant in Buchanan, NY. As usual, Angele was preceded by a pair of Moran tugs heading back to the harbor after assisting the bulker leaving the pier…
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No more port fees
Fure Viten, a small 18,000 deadweight ton Swedish flag tanker, arrived on the North River Wednesday morning bound for the Buckeye terminal in Albany. The tanker is LNG powered, with tanks evident on the deck, and also able to run on liquified biogas. Fure Viten was constructed in 2021 in a shipyard in China and…
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A well-trained militia…
A 39-foot landing craft type boat belonging to New York State Naval Militia’s Emergency Boat Service came up the North River Wednesday morning on a trip up from Glenwood Landing Marina on Hempstead Bay on the North Shore of Long Island, looped around and returned to the marina where I think it is based. The…
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Substitute
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland was bringing empty Buchanan Marine stone hoppers up the North River and passing Weehawken’s Port Imperial on Sunday morning. We more often see Buchanan’s own Buchanan12 on this route, but that tug was further north bringing a barge to a shipyard in Kingston on Sunday, as captured by Glenn Raymo’s feed.…
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Pushing paper
Don Jon tug Paul Andrew was taking the recycling out on Thursday, maneuvering a DSNY waste paper scow into the channel at North River Pier 99 amid still-heavy winds. Waste paper collected in Manhattan is brought from here to a paper mill on the Arthur Kill shore of Staten Island where it is made into…
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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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