Tag: Dann Marine
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Cement Coaster Part 2
Sapphire Coast was northbound on the North River on Tuesday afternoon, heading for Ravenna with a light cement barge. While Dann Marine’s Coral Coast and Treasure Coast have been delivering cement from the Ravenna plant to terminals around New York Harbor this week, as seen in yesterday’s photo of Coral, the more powerful Sapphire with…
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Cement coaster
Coral Coast came up the North River ahead of the weekend with a light cement transporter barge in tow, heading back up to the Amrize cement plant near Ravenna, NY for more of the product after making deliveries at terminals in Bayonne and Queens. A couple of Dann Marine tugs move cement barges regularly down…
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Holding it all together
Cement barges are moving on the North River this week. Tuesday morning saw Dann Marine’s Sapphire Coast with light Transporter 1801 heading back to the Amrize plant near Ravenna, NY to load more cargo after discharging at terminals in New England and also calling at the materials pier in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park. The evening before,…
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Stopping back in
Dann Marine’s Calusa Coast is anchored on the North River off Edgewater with covered hopper barge DMT 9000 this week. She is usually based in Baltimore I believe, and may have ducked in on the way back from a run to Boston, similar to the last time we saw her anchored on the river in…
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Teamwork at the terminal
The Dann Marine Towing tug Gulf Coast was on hand at North River Pier 90 at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal on Friday to help Vane Brothers tug Red Hook deliver a fuel barge alongside the Viking Mars. We have seen the 2,400 HP Gulf Coast occasionally this year, usually moving fuel to one of the…
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Providence bound
Dann Marine’s Pearl Coast brought a cement cargo from the plant in Coeymans down the North River on Monday morning. The 1978-vintage 5,600 HP tug brought its barge around the Battery, out through the Gate and headed for Providence where they arrived at the cement terminal on Sassafras Point Tuesday morning.
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As old as Stonehenge?
Coral Coast, Dann Marine’s 55-year-old 3,000 HP tug, brought a light cement transporter barge up the North River in the final week of August, heading back to the cement plant in Coeymans after discharging at the terminal in Bayonne. The cylindrical 34-story building at the top of the Bergen Hill in the background is the…
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Moving cement
A lot of cement was moving down the North River last week from the Amrize plant (formerly Lafarge) in the Town of Coeymans near Ravenna, some of it heading for out-of-town terminals. Dann Marine tug Sapphire Coast made two runs at least and we saw Pearl Coast as well. As of Monday morning, Sapphire appears…
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A little more sugar
Dann Marine’s Topaz Coast had the dry bulk barge Montville on the wire heading for sea Tuesday evening after discharging sugar at the Yonkers refinery. This cargo appears to have come up from the Gulf coast rather than Florida and the tow was heading back there now. Dann Ocean’s Captain Dann ran light up to…
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Cement mixer
Dann Marine’s Coral Coast came down the North River last Monday, passing Hoboken with a loaded cement transporter barge. Cement manufactured at the Ravenna, NY plant is brought south by barge to terminals in NY Harbor and sometimes continues up the Sound to distribution hubs in New England. The day this photo was taken marked…
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More cement
Spring is a busy time in the cement transportation business. On Tuesday, Coral Coast was back on the North River, moving a cargo of cement manufactured in Ravenna NY to a distribution terminal on Flushing Bay in Queens. By Thursday morning, Coral was already back in Ravenna, picking up a new cargo.
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Sugar express
The last day of April found Dann Marine’s East Coast arriving from Florida with the Sugar Express barge on the wire. The barge was loaded with a cargo of domestic raw crystals headed for the refinery in Yonkers. Coming soon to a table near you.
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Fuel goes up, cement comes down
Cement passed fuel on the North River early Monday. Coral Coast had a cement transporter barge carrying product from the Ravenna, NY plant to a distribution terminal on College Point on Flushing Bay. Coral passed the B. Franklin Reinauer RTC 81 ATB loaded with an oil product cargo and heading for Albany (or perhaps Newburgh)…
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On the hip in heavy winds
Dann’s Coral Coast had a light cement barge on the hip in heavy winds on the North River on Saturday. Coral was bringing the barge back to the Holcim plant in Ravenna NY for more product after unloading at terminals in NY Harbor. The Ravenna plant is the only cement plant still operating on the…
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Cement in the snow
Dann tug Treasure Coast had a snow-crusted barge with a cargo of cement manufactured at the Holcim plant in Ravena, NY. Treasure came down the North River early Wednesday heading for the distribution terminal in Flushing Bay.
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Pushing and pulling
Dann Marine’s Chesapeake Coast came up the North River with the Chesapeake barge loaded on Wednesday and anchored north of the bridge. Friday afternoon, the crew configured for towing astern and headed for the Narrows and out of town, heading south. By Saturday morning they are clearing Cape May.
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