Tag: bulkers
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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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Import cement, export scrap
SSI Marvelous, a 580-foot bulk ship, was heading for sea after discharging her cargo of cement from Turkey at the import terminal in Cementon, NY. We see Marvelous and her fleet mate SSI Magnificent regularly on this route. On this trip she had called on Providence to partially unload before first coming up the Hudson.…
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Next customer
Angele N, a 625-foot bulk ship, was light and heading for sea as she passed Weehawken Friday afternoon after discharging her cargo of Spanish gypsum at the wallboard plant in Buchanan, NY. As usual, Angele was preceded by a pair of Moran tugs heading back to the harbor after assisting the bulker leaving the pier…
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Getting metal
Kallisti GS, a 575-foot Portugal-flagged bulk ship, came up the North River Tuesday afternoon with her hatches vented. She was arriving from Turkey after first calling in Providence and was heading for the scrap dock in Rensselaer where she will likely load metal for export back to Turkey. The metal may return to us some…
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On the cement route
Chrysanthe, a 580-foot Marshall Islands flagged bulk ship, came down the North River in late October, heading for the Narrows with her hatches vented after discharging a cargo of Turkish cement at the import terminal in Cementon, NY, the site of a former cement manufacturing plant. Chrysanthe had previously called in Providence to discharge cement,…
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Sugar substitute
Balsa 89 came up the North River last week heading for the Port of Coeymans. Usually when we see these small Dowa Line bulkers on the river they are heading for Yonkers with sugar cargos, but this time Balsa 89 went straight through to Coeymans. Her port of origin was Jamaica and I don’t have…
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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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Adding salt
The Carver Companies tug Helen passed up the North River Friday afternoon, headed for her home port of Coeymans with a high-sided hopper barge loaded with prodigious amounts of what I believe was probably salt lightered off the bulk ship Astro Sanistra, in from Egypt and anchored in the Upper Bay off Bay Ridge. Erin…
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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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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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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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Apres le deluge
The North River was mirror flat in light northeast wind Tuesday morning and still flowing to sea just after low tide after Monday night’s massive thunderstorms and flooding. Alexandros P, a 656-foot Liberia-flagged bulk ship, came through heading for the Port of Coeymans. Alexandros originated in Garrucha, Spain, which makes gypsum a likely cargo, perhaps…
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Farewell Domino
A Panama-flagged bulk ship passed the Dyckman Street Marina on Wednesday evening, heading for sea after discharging a cargo of Dominican sugar in Yonkers. This week brought sad news that the 100-year old plant would shut down by the end of this year, ending the tenure of one of the few remaining marine highway users…
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Hatches open
The Hong Kong flagged bulk ship Silhouette Island headed for sea and her next port of call Norfolk at sunset on Tuesday after departing Coeymans the day before. She had several hatch covers partly open for venting or cleaning holds. Don’t know what cargo she discharged up there.
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More bulk
The Panama-flagged bulk ship Amis Wisdom VI passed up the North River early Tuesday, bound for the Port of Coeymans. The ship was arriving from ports in the Mediterranean with unknown cargo, though more salt is a possibility.
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Getting salty
A lot of salt has been moving up the North River this month, headed for the Port of Coeymans to restore municipal supplies depleted during the harsh winter. Some has come on bulk ships heading upriver, and some has come by barge, lightered off a series of bulk ships that have arrived from Egypt and…
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Last call for salt
On Friday, Carver’s Mackenzie Rose passed up the North River headed for Port of Coeymans. In tow were two hoppers loaded with what I think was probably salt lightered off a bulk ship that was in the Upper Bay and had arrived from Egypt. A bit later, the 650-foot bulk ship Port Nagasaki came by,…
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Paying the tariff
Balsa 91, a compact 350-foot Panama-flagged bulk ship, arrived on the North River Wednesday with a cargo of raw sugar from Dominican Republic heading for the refinery in Yonkers. With the bulker having left DR after April 5, this may be the first or one of the first foreign cargos to arrive on the river…
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