Tag: heavy lift
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Svend and receive
The heavy lift cargo ship Svend came up the North River Monday morning, heading for the Port of Albany and arriving from Rotterdam after first calling on Portsmouth, NH. She may have been delivering some type of project cargo or perhaps loading heavy equipment manufactured up north for export, though she did show an AIS…
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New York Makes, the World Takes
New York State exports, both foreign and domestic, were moving down the North River this weekend after leaving the Port of Ablany. The Antigua-flagged superstructure-forward cargo ship BBC Bremen passed through after sundown Saturday, I believe loaded with components for onshore wind installations manufactured by GE Vernova in Schenectady and headed for Australia via the…
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Back for more?
Thomas Dann came up the North River Friday afternoon, returning from Rhode Island with the wide deck barge CBC Savannah. Thomas was heading for Albany, perhaps to load the barge with more wind turbine parts similar to what this pair brought down river earlier this week.
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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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Back to work
The first week of September following Labor Day marks the traditional and meteorological start of autumn. Tug and barge combinations crowded the North River anchorages over Labor Day but quickly dispersed Tuesday, heading for new cargos, while through traffic was also fairly heavy after the holiday weekend. Later Tuesday, the Timothy Reinauer/RTC 84 ATB picked…
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