Tag: hoppers
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Pushing rock
New York State Marine Highway’s 1977 vintage 1,200 HP tug Nathan G brought a set of hoppers loaded with stone down the North River on Saturday, passing the Bull Ferry condos in Guttenberg NJ. They were headed for the Bay Ridge flats where hoppers can be left at moorings and interchanged for onward delivery. As…
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New kid on the North River
In mid-December, Haugland Group LLC ’s newest tug Lily Anne came up the North River with a pair of hopper barges, passing the Lucy Reinauer at anchor with the 46,000 barrel tank barge RTC 42. Haugland acquired the 1981-vintage 1,800 HP former Weeks Marine tug earlier this year, adding a fourth tug to their fleet…
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Commuting
Carver Companies’ 3,900 HP towboat Erin Elizabeth came down the North River a few days before Christmas bringing a high sided hopper barge from Coeymans down to the harbor. Erin was back up north on Christmas morning but then back in New York Harbor moving barges around by the weekend.
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On the Marine Highway
New York State Marine Highway Transportation’s 1978 vintage, 2,000 HP tug Maddie K came down the North River Thursday with several loaded stone hoppers. Maddie was heading for the Bay Ridge Flats, and later travelled up the East River and on to the materials dock just over the Bronx line in Mount Vernon on the…
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Heading for home
Sound Marine’s 680 HP tug Matthew G came up the North River with a pair of stone hoppers, heading for the Sound Marine base in Nyack this past Sunday. Matthew was coming back from Rhode Island but stopped at Con Agg’s new aggregate facility in Hunts Point on the East River where she may have…
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Substitute
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland was bringing empty Buchanan Marine stone hoppers up the North River and passing Weehawken’s Port Imperial on Sunday morning. We more often see Buchanan’s own Buchanan12 on this route, but that tug was further north bringing a barge to a shipyard in Kingston on Sunday, as captured by Glenn Raymo’s feed.…
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Pushing paper
Don Jon tug Paul Andrew was taking the recycling out on Thursday, maneuvering a DSNY waste paper scow into the channel at North River Pier 99 amid still-heavy winds. Waste paper collected in Manhattan is brought from here to a paper mill on the Arthur Kill shore of Staten Island where it is made into…
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Bronx bound
Sound Marine of Nyack’s 680 HP tug Matthew G brought a hopper barge loaded with aggregate down from the quarry dock in Hudson NY. They were heading for Hunts Point in the Bronx and the location of the new Con Agg terminal being built at that site, making this one of the first or perhaps…
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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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Variety pack
The Carver Companies towboat Erin Elizabeth seemed to have a little bit of everything as she arrived on the North River heading for the harbor on Sunday morning, with scrap, stone, sand, and a spud barge all visible in addition to whatever was in the high-sided hopper barge. Erin was passing the historic Alpine radio…
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Salt goes up, stone comes down
Carver Companies’ Daisy Mae headed north on Friday, exiting the north end of the North River with hoppers loaded with what I believe was salt lightered off a bulker in from Egypt anchored in the Upper Bay. On her return trip two days later, she brought back a stone cargo, heading for the Bay Ridge…
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To and from the old quarry
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland came up the North River Wednesday with a light hopper barge heading for the Clinton Point quarry near Poughkeepsie. George passed Buchanan12 on one whistle off North Bergen, coming down from the same quarry with her daily float of loaded stone hoppers. B12 leaves her loaded hoppers at moorings off Jersey…
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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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Keep on rocking
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland has been making regular trips up the North River with a hopper barge this summer, heading for the quarry in Clinton Point near Poughkeepsie where they collect crushed stone for delivery to distribution points around the metropolitan area and return back down the river. These pictures were taken on Sunday of…
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Keep building
Carver Companies towboat Erin Elizabeth brought hopper barges down the North River in the final days of August, traveling from Coeymans to the harbor. They passed West New York where new construction continues seemingly without end.
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More weight
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland passed Weehawken with a light hopper barge on the hip last week, heading to Clinton Point to collect a stone cargo. They were approaching the point where the channel is squeezed by the Gateway Tunnel coffer dam, coordinating with the pilot of an outbound cruise ship on the other side. As…
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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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Special delivery
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland came down the North River Monday morning with da cargo of crushed stone from the Clinton Point quarry near Poughkeepsie loaded on one of the company’s barges. Daily stone shipments from Clinton Point are usually brought by Buchanan Marine to moorings off Jersey City, but George brought this shipment straight through…
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Adding salt
CMT’s Erin Elizabeth came up the North River Tuesday, heading for Coeymans with what I believe was probably a cargo of Egyptian salt lightered off a bulk ship in the Upper Bay. They passed the Reinauer Twins/RTC 104 ATB at anchor off North Bergen, NJ. As of Saturday morning, Erin is back in NY Harbor…
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Along for the ride
Stasinos tug Charles James came up the North River early Tuesday with a CMT hopper barge and the CMT tug Helen, I think not under power, lashed alongside the tow. I believe they were heading back to the Port of Coeymans.
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