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South for the winter
After spending two days at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal, Hapag-Llyod’s Europa 2 backed out into the North River Monday morning, with Moran tractor tug Thomas C helping push the bow into the flood tide. As of Tuesday morning, Europa 2 has reached Charleston, calling there en route for the Windward Islands, the Panama Canal and…
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Fireboats big and small
The North River fire company, FDNY’s Marine 1, had both their big Three Forty Three boat and their small alpha boat on the water Saturday afternoon. We don’t normally see both of these boats on the water together, I believe because they are crewed by the same company, with the nature of the emergency determining…
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This is BBC
The cargo ship BBC Helsinki came up the North River just before sundown on Friday and just after a storm moved through, heading for the Port of Albany with no deck cargo visible. This is the at least the sixth BBC Chartering ship I’ve managed to capture on camera on the river this year and…
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On the Marine Highway
New York State Marine Highway Transportation’s 1978 vintage, 2,000 HP tug Maddie K came down the North River Thursday with several loaded stone hoppers. Maddie was heading for the Bay Ridge Flats, and later travelled up the East River and on to the materials dock just over the Bronx line in Mount Vernon on the…
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Small but not really small
The cruise ship Europa 2 made the turn into Pier 88 this morning with two Moran tractor tugs, JRT and Thomas, on hand to assist. Hapag Lloyd’s Europa 2 is small by modern cruise ship standards but with 740 feet in length she is not a small ship. She is returning to NYC after a…
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Catch my drift
The Army Corps of Engineers drift collection vessel (DCV) Hayward came up the North River Saturday morning, on patrol for hazards to navigation. Hayward passed the cottages of Edgewater Colony, a cooperative housing development which is the only place in New Jersey where detached single-family homes sit directly on the Hudson River. On Tuesday morning,…
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Rhode Island bound
Watching Thomas Dann pass down the North River early Saturday bound for Providence I had no idea how much that city and its residents would be on my mind a few hours later. Thomas has been making regular runs for the past few months with the barge CBC Savannah, ferrying parts for an offshore wind…
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Bringing bulk
Unity Force, a 650-foot Bahamas flagged bulk ship, came up the North River on Wednesday heading for the Port of Coeymans. She was arriving from Egypt and road salt is a likely cargo, though other bulk products are also possible.
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Ready to the break the ice
It’s still a bit early in the season for serious ice, but one of the Coast Guard’s two big Bayonne-based icebreakers, the Sturgeon Bay, was heading north on the North River on Thursday. Sturgeon Bay continued upriver to Kingston where she arrived by sundown. As usual, the 37-year old vessel was putting out a lot…
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The big guy is back
The big Christian Reinauer/RTC 145 ATB was back on the North River Wednesday, the first time we’ve seen her here in several years. With a 7,200 HP tug and a 477-foot 150,000 barrel barge, this is one of Reinauer’s biggest units, with the barge even a bit larger than Nicole Leigh’s which we see more…
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Supplying Connecticut
Sunrise on the North River Wednesday found a pair of Reinauer’s modern ATB units at anchor after returning overnight from delivering New York Harbor fuel or heating oil cargos to terminals in Connecticut ports. Janice Ann/RTC 103, a 4,400 HP 2020 vintage tug paired with a 413 foot/108,000 barrel barge, was anchored off West New…
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Cement Coaster Part 2
Sapphire Coast was northbound on the North River on Tuesday afternoon, heading for Ravenna with a light cement barge. While Dann Marine’s Coral Coast and Treasure Coast have been delivering cement from the Ravenna plant to terminals around New York Harbor this week, as seen in yesterday’s photo of Coral, the more powerful Sapphire with…
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Cement coaster
Coral Coast came up the North River ahead of the weekend with a light cement transporter barge in tow, heading back up to the Amrize cement plant near Ravenna, NY for more of the product after making deliveries at terminals in Bayonne and Queens. A couple of Dann Marine tugs move cement barges regularly down…
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Mount St Elias passing by
Kirby’s Mount St Elias ATB came down the North River Saturday morning, returning from a products delivery up in Newburgh and heading for the Upper Bay. By Sunday morning, the unit was at a pier in Carteret on the Arthur Kill, probably loading a new cargo.
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A visitor from Sandy Hook
The Sandy Hook patrol boat, US Coast Guard Cutter Bonito, was visiting the North River this week. After traveling as far as Tappan Zee Thursday, the cutter spent a very cold moonlit night at the Coast Guard mooring off Edgewater and then did some maneuvering on the river off of Weehawken Friday morning before returning…
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Heading for home
Sound Marine’s 680 HP tug Matthew G came up the North River with a pair of stone hoppers, heading for the Sound Marine base in Nyack this past Sunday. Matthew was coming back from Rhode Island but stopped at Con Agg’s new aggregate facility in Hunts Point on the East River where she may have…
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Back in service
The Jordan Rose/RCM 250 ATB was northbound on the North River with a New York Harbor cargo early Thursday. This is the first time I have seen the unit since a dispute between the owners and management companies knocked the Rose Cay fleet out of action this summer, though Jordan has made at least one…
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