Tag: cranes
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Lights, camera, action
Stasinos Marine’s James Charles, a 2,000 HP tug built in 1970 and not to be confused with the company’s Charles James tug, was at North River Pier 94 Wednesday pulling the crane barge that has been there for over a year. The Sunset Studios sound stages and production facilities constructed on the pier opened in…
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Back to work at the Transfer Bridge
Jessica Frances, a small 600-HP twin screw tug based in Verplanck, picked up a crane barge at the North River Harlem piers and delivered it to the 69th Street Transfer Bridge restoration worksite. Frances single-handedly backed the big barge alongside the structure and then ran around to push her into place. Tuesday brought cold rain…
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Between snow falls
The sun came out Tuesday, finding a gap between Monday’s blizzard and Wednesday’s aftershock dusting of snow. Sound Marine’s 680 HP tug Matthew G took advantage of the window to bring a crane barge down the North River loaded with what looked like fendering for piles. They were heading for the Seastreak dock in Highlands,…
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Pier Pressure
Stasinos tug Toula C, last seen two weeks ago delivering a barge to the 69th Street Transfer Bridge restoration project, was back on the North River Thursday, maneuvering barges with Patricia Jean at Pier 94. Workers were putting the final touches on the facade of the rebuilt pier which was once part of the ship…
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At the coffer dam
Weeks Marine’s tug Robert was maneuvering barges at the Gateway Tunnel coffer dam site off Pier 66 on Monday. The project is reinforcing the riverbed at this spot so that the Gateway rail tunnel will be able to pass underneath.
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Working weekend
A new floating drydock constructed at the Feeney Shipyard in Kingston NY was brought down the North River Saturday evening by Stasinos Marine and delivered to its owners, Hughes Marine, at their base in Erie Basin. According to Hughes, this is possibly the first new drydock installed in Brooklyn in over 100 years. My nighttime…
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Heavy lifting
Atlantic Salvor had DonJon’s big Chesapeake 1000 crane in tow coming up the North River on Sunday en route to Port of Albany for a heavy lift job.
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E-Crain on the move
Erin Elizabeth cam up the North River Sunday, heading back to Coeymans with one of the Carver Companies’ e-cranes. The crane has been working on the coastal resiliency project now underway near Battery Park I believe.
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Crane Delivery
Dann Marine’s Gulf Coast, I believe based on the Delaware River and not seen recently seen on the North River, came up from Philly with Weeks Crane 533 on the wire on Wednesday. Haugland’s Miss Madeline joined the tow in New York Harbor and the trio continued up north to the Hudson, NY area on…
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Burning off
The thick layer of haze that sat over New York from Sunday through Tuesday was finally burning off Wednesday afternoon. Temperatures were unseasonably warm, but with the sun setting before 6pm now for the rest of the winter, opportunities for photography are somewhat reduced. Tanker traffic remains heavy on the River, and the DonJon dredgers…
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Send in the clouds
The string of perfect fall days came to an end on Sunday, with periodic rain and fog rolling in and lingering through Monday. The Dutch and Danish NATO frigates that had been sitting at Pier 88 headed back to sea Monday morning, perhaps to rejoin the brand new U.S. carrier Gerald Ford off Virginia Beach…
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