Tag: bulkers
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Comparative bulk
NOT THE NORTH RIVER: A visit to another inland waterway this weekend found the Liberian flagged bulk ship Ocean Lorry departing New Orleans after loading a cargo at the Cargill terminal, I think probably some kind of grain. Lorry passed under the Crescent City Connection bridge and rounded Algiers Point heading for the Gulf of…
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Making calls
Oslo Bulk 4, a small Portugal-flagged bulker, was heading for sea Monday just before sundown after coming up from the Caribbean to load an unknown cargo at the Port of Coeymans. By Tuesday morning, she is off the Delaware coast signaling Savannah as her next destination.
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Farewell North River
The bulk ship Icarian Spire, Bahamas-flagged, was exiting the North River on Tuesday afternoon, passing Hoboken and Jersey City and heading for sea. The 590-foot vessel was in ballast after discharging a cargo at the Port of Coeymans, possibly salt. She is signaling Savannah as her next port of call.
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Simply Marvelous
The bulk ship SSI Marvelous came up the North River Monday morning, the first of two bulkers to pass through within a half hour of each other. Unlike most of the bulk ships we see this time of year which are bringing salt to the Port of Coeymans, Marvelous was carrying cement and heading for…
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Thundering Typhoons!
Thundering typhoons! The bulk ship Captain Haddock came up the North River Monday, Port of Coeymans bound and partially laden with salt after lightering off some cargo in the Upper Bay to Carver Marine barges last month and then killing some time at Ambrose Anchorage. The Captain is no doubt named for Belgian graphic novelist…
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Unburdened youth
The bulk ship Amis Youth (not Aimless Youth), 650 feet in length and Liberia flagged, came down the North River Friday morning heading for sea. Youth was in ballast and drawing less than 30 feet after discharging a cargo at the Port of Coeymans. Bulk ship traffic on the river has been heavy this spring,…
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In ballast
The Liberian-flagged 650-foot long bulk ship Aquagemini came down the North River heading for sea on Monday morning. The ship was in ballast and drawing less than 25 feet after discharging a cargo from Egypt at the Port of Coeymans, probably salt. By Tuesday morning she is well offshore and heading southeast.
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Keep the salt coming
Road salt from Egypt continues to move up the North River this week, heading for the Port of Coeymans and then onward to municipal storage facilities to replenish what was expended over the winter. On Friday morning, the bulk ship Princess Margo came through, catching the morning sun interrupted by the shadows cast by the…
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Pass the salt
The Marshall Islands-flagged bulk ship St Greg, 625 feet long, came up the North River loaded with salt from Egypt to replenish municipal supplies depleted by the harsh winter. Some of the cargo was likely lightered off in the Upper Bay and brought up by barge ahead of the ship. St Greg was Coeymans-bound and…
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The last factory
Beltango, a 650-foot Panama-flagged bulk ship, arrived on the North River on Wednesday with a cargo of gypsum from Garrucha, Spain headed for the wallboard plant in Buchanan, NY. Also visible in the first photo is DonJon Marine’s J. Arnold Witte with a DSNY waste paper scow and Stasinos Marine’s Joanne Marie, currently providing ice…
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Cement to Cementon
The bulk ship Artax, 583 feet long and Portugal flagged, came up the North River Monday morning with a cargo of Turkish cement. Artax had first called on Providence, RI to partly unload and was now heading for Cementon in the Town of Catskill NY where an import terminal sits on the site of a…
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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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