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Holiday weekend
The tug Henry Girls of Henry Marine Service Inc. left the Gateway cofferdam worksite Friday afternoon ahead of the holiday weekend, heading for base on Staten Island. Happy Labor Day to all!
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Load it up, move it out
Heavy lift cargo vessel BBC Rushmore came up the North River Thursday bound for the Port of Albany. She will either be delivering some project cargo there or possibly loading GE equipment for export.
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Getting scrap
Shelter Island, a 650-foot Hong Kong-flagged bulk ship, came up the North River early Wednesday heading for Albany after first calling at the bulk wharf at Port Newark. Her voyage began in Chile and she may have delivered salt in Newark or perhaps loaded scrap metal there (or both?). In Albany she has docked at…
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More weight
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland passed Weehawken with a light hopper barge on the hip last week, heading to Clinton Point to collect a stone cargo. They were approaching the point where the channel is squeezed by the Gateway Tunnel coffer dam, coordinating with the pilot of an outbound cruise ship on the other side. As…
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Champlain Hudson Power Express arrives at the North River
The cable-laying vessel Ariadne arrived off Spuyten Duyvil at the top end of the North River this week to work on some of the final sections of the Champlain Hudson Power Express. The cable, which will bring hydro-generated electricity from Canada to New York City beginning next year, makes a turn at this point, entering…
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Beating the storm
Baltic Mantis, a 655-foot Marshall Islands-flagged bulk ship, came down the North River and headed for sea and her next port of call in Texas on Thursday afternoon after departing the Port of Coeymans. Her last foreign port prior to Coeymans was in Egypt, and she may have brought road salt with her or loaded…
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Army excursion
The US Army logistics vessel CW3 Harold C. Clinger passed Spuyten Duyvil heading south Friday afternoon. The 273-foot long RoRo had come up the North River from Norfolk earlier in the day, traveling up the Hudson to Bear Mountain Bridge before turning around and heading back to sea and Virginia. Clinger is based near Norfolk…
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Leaving so soon?
After a quick turn at the Buckeye Terminal in Albany, MH Future was back on the North River Thursday evening, passing the Spuyten Duyvil rail bridge and heading for sea less than sixty hours after she passed in the other direction Tuesday morning. She was heading for Halifax and looked to be drawing a bit…
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Cement from three places
SSI Magnificent, a 580-foot Marshall Islands-flagged bulk ship, came up the North River Wednesday carrying a cargo of cement from Turkey and heading for Catskill, NY after first partially discharging at terminals in Providence and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Cement, the dry primary ingredient in concrete which is typically mixed closer to where it will…
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Tuesday Tanker
MH Future, a small 20,000 deadweight ton Marshall Islands-flagged tanker, came up the North River early Tuesday heading for the Buckeye Terminal in Albany. Future was arriving from a terminal on the St. Lawrence between Montreal and Quebec City and had been at a terminal near Gibraltar prior to that. She may be bringing a…
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