Tag: assist tugs
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Gypsum day
A pair of Moran tugs, the Margaret Moran and the Laura K Moran, travelled up the North River on Friday to help assist a bulk ship loaded with Spanish gypsum docking at the drywall factory in Buchanan, NY. Margaret, nearly 50 years old and a dean of Moran’s New York Harbor tug fleet, came first,…
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Here to help
James D Moran, a 6,000 HP tractor tug, came up the North River Sunday afternoon for an assist job at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal, helping to sail the AIDA Diva as she headed for the Bahamas. As of Wednesday afternoon, James is back at Moran’s Staten Island base awaiting her next job.
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Help is on the way
When we see Moran Towing Corporation tugs leaving the harbor and traveling up the North River beyond the cruise terminal it usually means there is assist work to do at the wallboard plant up in Buchanan, New York. This was the case on Saturday when Margaret and Miriam Moran passed by on their way to…
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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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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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Gypsum delivery
A cargo of Spanish gypsum moved up the North River Wednesday aboard the Swiss-flagged 650-foot bulk ship Lausanne. They were heading for the wallboard plant in Buchanan, NY. As usual, a pair of Moran tugs came up the river ahead of time to help with docking at the factory. Lausanne is one of only about…
