Tag: hoppers
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Getting stone
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland, 18 years old and 3,000 HP, was northbound on the North River with the company’s hopper barge Ellen on Tuesday morning. The tow was en route to the Clinton Point quarry just south of Poughkeepsie where they would likely be loading a stone cargo for delivery back in New York Harbor.
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Substitute
Wednesday afternoon found a rare sight on the North River: towboat Buchanan12 returning to her Erie Basin base running light without her usual raft of crushed stone hoppers from the Clinton Point quarry near Poughkeepsie. The next morning, Norfolk Tug’s George Holland, who sometimes substitutes for B12, was running with the Buchanan boat’s usual charges,…
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Scrap Sunday
Carver Marine Towing’s Daisy Mae came down the North River on Sunday bringing hoppers loaded with scrap metal and one with some kind of aggregate down from the Port of Coeymans heading for the harbor.
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Stone run
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland came up the North River late afternoon Friday, passing the Stevens Institute on Castle Point in Hoboken with a light hopper heading for the Clinton Point quarry near Poughkeepsie. George returned on Sunday with a stone cargo heading for the materials dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and then continued out…
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Mineral resources
A Dann Marine tug had a light cement transporter barge in tow on the hip heading back to the cement plant in Ravenna last Sunday. She passed the Buchanan12 on one whistle with her usual loads of crushed dolomite heading from the Clinton Point quarry to the Jersey City flats. The Hudson Valley’s rich mineral…
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Metal and salt
Carver Marine tug Daisy Mae (9-years old, 3,200 HP) returned to the harbor on Friday morning with a hopper loaded with scrap metal, along with a few light hoppers one of which still had some of what I assume is salt visible along the gunnel. Carver tugs have been ferrying huge amounts of salt upriver…
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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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Some more salt
Carver Marine Towing’s 3,000 HP tug Helen was northbound on the North River Sunday, bound for the Port of Coeymans with hopper barges loaded what I believe was salt lightered off a bulk ship anchored in the Upper Bay. Road salt is in demand up north as municipalities look to rebuild their stocks after a…
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Back in service
Buchanan Marine’s Buchanan12 is back on the North River over the past week after a notable absence. The 3,000 HP towboat is normally a daily presence on the river, bringing hoppers loaded with crushed dolomite stone down from the Tilcon Clinton Point quarry just south of Poughkeepsie to moorings off Jersey City and then returning…
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Building supply
Haugland Group tug Lily Anne came down the North River early Saturday just ahead of the first round of weekend snow. Lily was bringing what looked like several loaded stone hoppers down from Haugland’s Tompkins Cove materials facility on Haverstraw Bay to the area of the aggregate pier on the end of 25th Street in…
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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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