Tag: ATB
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Another Rose
The Anna Rose/RCM 225 ATB came up the North River on Friday with a products cargo headed for Albany. Based on AIS track, I believe the cargo may have been lightered off the tanker Solar Katherine anchored in the Upper Bay, which in turn appears to have arrived from Norway’s refinery at Morgstad. Anna/RCM 225…
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Back from Boston
The Dean Reinauer/RTC 106 ATB, one of the bigger Reinauer units in the 100,000 barrel capacity range, came up the North River on Monday upon returning to New York Harbor from a run up to Boston. Dean took anchorage off the Boat Basin and remains there Wednesday morning.
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Wall Street on the North River
The Prospect Park/MAM 80 ATB, a 5,000 HP tug paired with a 400’ /80,000 barrel barge,has been on the North River this week, moving between anchorage off Yonkers and the Upper Bay with the barge looking light. This is the first time I have seen this unit which I believe normally operates in the Gulf…
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A rose by any other name
A rose by any other name…Tuesday finds the ATB formerly known as Jordan Rose at anchor in the North River, now wearing @vanebrotherscompany livery and apparently renamed Castine and with the barge called Double Skin 550 rather than RCM 252. Vane acquired the Jordan Rose and Susan Rose ATB units this year from the owners…
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Welcome back big guy
The Christian Reinauer/RTC 145, one of the biggest ATBs operating from New York Harbor, came up the North River under threatening skies Thursday as thunderstorms passed by to the north. The unit was returning from a trip down to a terminal in Cape Canaveral, Florida with the 150,000 barrel barge now looking light and headed…
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ATBs heading north
ATB units were moving oil products north with the flood tide on the North River on Friday afternoon, with the Curtis Reinauer/RTC 82 coming through first followed by Kirby’s Cape Hatteras paired I believe with DBL 81. Both units were Albany-bound and seen passing the Hudson Yards towers in the photos.
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Staying out of the way
The Christian Reinauer/RTC 145 ATB, one of the biggest units in the Reinauer fleet, spent July 4 weekend anchored just outside the harbor off Atlantic Highlands. But on Monday afternoon amid persistent lousy weather she came back in and moved up the North River, passing anchored naval ships and the Coast Guard Cutter Stone as…
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Birds of a feather
More than one big ocean-going ATB came up the North River to anchor during Monday night’s storm. In addition to Kirby’s Sea Hawk/ATC 21 unit featured on Tuesday, we also had Moran’s Barney Turecamo/Georgia at anchorage up in Yonkers with the barge looking loaded. The 5,100 HP tug and 427-foot 110,000 barrel barge Moran unit…
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Big visitor
Tuesday morning found the big Kirby Sea Hawk / ATC 21 ATB emerging from the fog on the North River opposite Port Imperial. The unit had dropped anchor a bit south of the usual North River anchorage area after returning from Boston during the heavy rains late Monday. With an 8,000 HP tug and a…
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Reinauer parking
Monday morning finds a pair of Reinauer ATBs at anchor on the North River having stopped here on the way back from product deliveries in Albany. The Janice Ann / RTC 103 unit, a 4,400 HP tug paired with a 108,000 barrel barge, was off Guttenberg, while sitting at anchor about half a mile north…
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Rabbit Rabbit
The venerable Dace Reinauer/ RTC 62 ATB unit came down the North River on the first day of June, returning from a final May delivery up north. A week later on Monday morning Dace is back in New York Harbor on the Kill van Kull having been up and back to Rensselaer and Newburgh in…
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Quick round trip
Kirby’s Mount St. Elias / DBL 82 has been a regular on Hudson River routes over the past year. On Tuesday evening just before sunset, the unit came up the North River passing Jersey City and Hoboken with a NY Harbor products cargo en route to the Global Terminal south of Newburgh, NY. By sunrise…
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Turning into the tide
The B. Franklin Reinauer/ RTC 81 ATB (a 4,000 HP tug built in 2012 paired with an 86,000 barrel barge) spent the early hours of Tuesday morning anchored on the North River off West New York. By 8:30 am she had pulled up her hook, pivoted into the flood tide and headed for the Upper…
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A cargo for Albany
The Dean Reinauer/RTC 106 ATB, a 4,000 HP tug paired with a 108,000 barrel barge, were northbound on the North River on Thursday with a New York Harbor products cargo heading for Albany. By Friday morning, the unit was docked by the Buckeye terminal in Albany.
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Back for more
The Janice Anne Reinauer/RTC 103 ATB (4,400 HP tug with a 108,000 barrel barge) came down the North River Saturday evening, returning to the harbor after a run up to Albany. By Sunday morning, the unit appears to be loading a new cargo at a terminal in Perth Amboy on the Arthur Kill.
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Thursday morning haze
Reinauer’s Josephine/RTC 83 ATB, a 4400 HP tug pinned to a 85,000 barrel barge, was Albany-bound on the North River in the Thursday morning haze after loading a New York Habor cargo overnight at Tremley Point on the Arthur Kill.
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