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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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Cooking with gas
It has been busy month for foreign flag cargo vessels on the North River, as already noted in yesterday’s post. These tankers and bulk ships can bring imports from overseas or collect material in Coeymans or Albany for export, but can not move cargo between U.S. ports. On Tuesday, the small Swedish flag products tanker…
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Export/Import
Trade wars may be raging but it has been a busy two weeks for foreign-flagged cargo ships coming up the North River bringing imports or collecting exports up north. On Friday afternoon, Diamond Sky, a 625-foot Malta-flagged bulk ship passed the towers of Fort Lee and the Englewood Cliffs where leaves are just starting to…
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A glimpse into a possible future for the Manhattan Cruise Terminal
The piers of the Manhattan cruise terminal could extend significantly further into the Hudson River some day. Preliminary plans for an upgraded facility call for a 650-foot extension, adding about 60% to the length of the current 1,000 foot piers. The new preliminary proposal was presented by New York City’s Economic Development Corporation to Manhattan…
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The Cable Guy
Work continues off Spuyten Duyvil on the Champlain Hudson Power Express cable which will soon bring hydro generated power from Quebec down to New York City. The cable makes a turn off the Hudson at this spot, running down the Harlem River to its terminus in Astoria. Last week HOS Mystique was working at the…
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Ave Maria
The bulk ship Maria came up the North River Friday, heading for the Port of Coeymans though she would spend some time at Hyde Park anchorage before arriving there. Iskenderun, Turkey was her previous foreign port of call and this ship may be coming to load scrap metal for export back to Turkey or possibly…
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Navy above
A Navy MH-60S Knighthawk helicopter made several loops up the North River last week on what was presumably a training flight originating somewhere in South Jersey. The MH-60S is a multi-mission navy helicopter based on the same platform as the Army’s Black Hawk. Monday is the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Navy.
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Lisa Lisa
The tug Vinik No. 6 came down the North River Friday afternoon with the sludge barge Lisa in tow, heading for Newark Bay. New York City’s DEP continues to employ the privately owned barge to make occasional pick ups at the North River water treatment plant as well as the Owl’s Head plant in Bay…
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To and from the old quarry
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland came up the North River Wednesday with a light hopper barge heading for the Clinton Point quarry near Poughkeepsie. George passed Buchanan12 on one whistle off North Bergen, coming down from the same quarry with her daily float of loaded stone hoppers. B12 leaves her loaded hoppers at moorings off Jersey…
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