Tag: Kirby

• Sunset cruise

  The Kirby Cape Hatteras / DBL 81 ATB left anchorage north of the GWB at sundown on Friday and headed for the Upper Bay where I believe she is currently alongside the oil products tanker Ipanema Street which arrived from Spain overnight, perhaps lightering a cargo(?). This is the first time I have photographed Hatteras…

  Daniel Katzive

  January 3, 2026

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  ATB, Kirby

• Demand and supply

  The run up to Christmas saw heavy tanker barge traffic on the North River, perhaps reflecting in part the cold start to winter and consequent demand for heating fuel. Sunday Dec 21 saw Kirby ATB Mount St Elias/ DBL 82 come through with a loaded tank barge heading for Newburgh. In the photo they are…

  Daniel Katzive

  December 28, 2025

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  ATB, Kirby, tanker barges, tugs

• Mount St Elias passing by

  Kirby’s Mount St Elias ATB came down the North River Saturday morning, returning from a products delivery up in Newburgh and heading for the Upper Bay. By Sunday morning, the unit was at a pier in Carteret on the Arthur Kill, probably loading a new cargo.

  Daniel Katzive

  December 7, 2025

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  ATB, Kirby

• Hello Number Five

  UPDATE: I’m told the barge is borrowed while one P&C’s other barges is out of service, not a permanent addition to the fleet despite the name. Poling & Cutler’s Marylin George and her blue and white painted tanker barge “Number Five”, first seen heading upriver a few days ago, spent a few hours anchored off…

  Daniel Katzive

  October 8, 2025

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  ATB, Kirby, Poling-Cutler, tanker barges, tugs

• Up from Philly

  Kirby’s big Skipjack/Penn 91 ATB (4,000 HP tug and a 414-foot barge) made a rare trip up the North River last week, I believe bringing a fuel cargo from refineries on the Delaware River (or South River to the old Dutch) up to the Buckeye terminal in Albany. By Monday, when this photo was taken,…

  Daniel Katzive

  July 8, 2025

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  ATB, Kirby, tanker barges, tugs