Tag: hoppers
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Cleanup
DonJon tug Paul Andrew, with nameboards removed, ferried a scow loaded with debris cleared from the area around the 30th Street Heliport to a pier in Port Newark on Tuesday, part of the ongoing Gateway Project work.
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Getting salty
A lot of salt has been moving up the North River this month, headed for the Port of Coeymans to restore municipal supplies depleted during the harsh winter. Some has come on bulk ships heading upriver, and some has come by barge, lightered off a series of bulk ships that have arrived from Egypt and…
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Last call for salt
On Friday, Carver’s Mackenzie Rose passed up the North River headed for Port of Coeymans. In tow were two hoppers loaded with what I think was probably salt lightered off a bulk ship that was in the Upper Bay and had arrived from Egypt. A bit later, the 650-foot bulk ship Port Nagasaki came by,…
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Salt delivery
Carver’s Helen came up the North River Thursday with a hopper barge loaded with, I believe, salt lightered off a bulk ship in from Egypt that was anchored in the Upper Bay. Road salt supplies up north have been much depleted by the harsh winter. They passed the anchored Reinauer Twins/ RTC 104 ATB, a…
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Five for twelve
Buchanan 5 appears to be filling in for Buchanan 12 on the daily Clinton Point quarry run. Five was towing her empty hoppers astern as she headed back north Tuesday morning, which is not a configuration we see very often for tows heading upriver. Meanwhile, 12 appears to be at Caddell’s Dry Dock currently. Hoppers…
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Private ports
Haugland Group towboat Miss Madeline was northbound on the North River Wednesday with a pair of hopper barges. A black cargo was visible in one, perhaps asphalt millings. Madeline was heading for Haugland’s small port facility in Tompkins Cove in Rockalnd County. By the early hours of Thursday, she was back in New York Harbor…
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Moving through ice
NY State Marine Highway’s Nathan G moved up the North River through ice flows with a hopper barge Wednesday. This week has seen the most significant ice accumulation on the lower Hudson in years.
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Waiting for paper
Paul Andrew was standing by with a waste paper scow at DSNY’s Pier 99 transfer station on Tuesday morning. Waste paper collected in Manhattan is brought from here to a recycling mill on Staten Island along the Arthur Kill.
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Stone beats scrap
Erin Elizabeth with a stone cargo overtook their Carver colleagues aboard Mister Jim pushing scrap on the North River en route to the harbor on Friday afternoon.
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Joker’s wild
Hays Tug Joker came down the North River Tuesday morning with a high-sided hopper loaded with stone, coming down from the quarry dock in Hudson, NY. Joker seems to be doing a fair amount of Hudson River work this year. By Wednesday morning, Joker was already heading back north up the river.
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June 26–mid-week storm
A ripping thunderstorm came through Wednesday evening, breaking the heat wave. Traffic on the North River was heavy.
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