Tag: tanker barges
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Back from Philly
Reinauer’s Josephine/RTC 83 ATB brought a fuel cargo up from the Marcus Hook refinery on the Delaware River (South River to the old Dutch) up to anchor over the weekend on the North River. She pulled up her hook before sunrise Monday and headed for the Kinder Morgan terminal in Carteret.
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Back to the plant
Pearl Coast, Dann Marine’s 5,600 HP nearly 50-year-old tug, was on the North River last Monday with a light cement barge returning to the cement plant in Ravenna, NY for more product after a delivery in Boston. As of Sunday morning, Pearl remains moored at the plant.
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Unfamiliar tug
Dann Marine tug Atlantic Coast spent some time at anchor on the North River this past week with a loaded-looking Vane DS-53 tank barge. I have not seen this tug before, which is rated at 3,000 HP and is approaching 20 years of age. I believe she is normally based further south. We have seen…
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Spending some time
Reinauer’s Kristy Ann/RTC 80 ATB loaded a fuel cargo on the Arthur Kill Monday but then spent most of the next two days killing time on the North River at anchorage off 125th Street and making a brief trip down to the Upper Bay and back early Tuesday with the 85,000 barrel capacity barge looking…
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Closing out winter
A pair of Centerline Logistics tugs made late-winter runs upriver from the harbor up to terminals on the Rensselaer side this week. Andrea’, who I’ve seen in the past servicing the Con Ed fuel dock at North River Pier 98, returned to the harbor on Tuesday, with the Stoddard Sea, a barge I haven’t seen…
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Friday night light
Kimberly Poling left North River anchorage with the 30,000 barrel Noelle Culter barge Friday evening at sunset, passing Weehawken and heading for an Arthur Kill terminal. By Sunday morning the barge has a new products cargo and is northbound on the Hudson, passing Cementon and Albany-bound.
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Passing through and sticking around
Tank barges were moving on the North River Thursday as temperatures climbed. Vane’s 4,200 HP Choptank left anchorage off Riverdale in the morning with the 54,000 barrel capacity Double Skin 54 and headed for Bayonne’s IMTT, passing the DEP sludge tanker Red Hook on two whistles on the way. A bit later, Poling & Cutler’s…
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Regular customer
Kirby’s Mount St. Elias / DBL 82 ATB was northbound on the North River a week ago Thursday with a New York Harbor products cargo bound for Newburgh. This unit has been a regular on the Hudson route this winter and has just returned from another Newburgh run a week later, heading to Carteret to…
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Tough morning
Temperatures were hovering around 5 Fahrenheit and winds were gusting above 30 knots just after sunrise on Sunday February 8 as Franklin Reinauer left the relative shelter of the North River anchorage with the RTC 42 barge and headed for the harbor, passing the much larger Reinauer Twins/RTC 104 ATB still at anchor. Franklin, rated…
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Day tripper
Vane Brothers 4,200 HP tug Choptank was Newburgh bound on the North River Saturday morning with a New York Harbor oil products cargo loaded on the Double Skin 54 barge. Ice has mostly cleared from this section of the Hudson, but more could be on the way as floes break up to the north. Choptank…
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Heavy in the stern
In early February, the B. Franklin Reinauer/RTC 81 ATB, a 347-foot 86,000 barrel barge paired with a 4,000 HP tug, came down the North River returning to the harbor from delivering a products cargo in Newburgh. The barge seemed unusually ballasted down in the stern, perhaps to improve performance in the ice, though that could…
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Under the moonlight
Sunrise on February 3 found a Vane Brothers tug and tank barge northbound in the ice on the North River with a fuel cargo under a nearly full moon.
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After delivery
Vane tug Cape Fear ran light down the North River on Saturday, returning to the harbor from the fuel dock at the Bowline power plant in West Haverstraw. I did not see her on the way up so I don’t know for sure, but most likely she delivered a fuel barge up there. We are…
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Evelyn back and forth
Poling & Cutler’s 52-year old 3,800 HP tug Evelyn Cutler was moving in both directions on the North River this week with the 30,000 barrel Noelle Cutler tank barge in tow. On Tuesday morning she was returning to the harbor from Albany with the barge light and the next morning they were on their way…
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Tow in the snow
Boston Marine Transport’s 4,200 HP tug Pinuccia was Albany-bound in the snow on the North River on Saturday with a New York Harbor products cargo loaded on the New York 30 barge. After unloading, she departed Albany’s Global terminal just before midnight on Sunday and by sunrise on Monday she was passing Poughkeepsie on the…
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Peekskill cargo
Dann Marine’s 2,400 HP tug Gulf Coast came up the North River Friday with a Vane Brothers tank barge loaded with a New York Harbor products cargo heading for the fuel terminal in Peekskill. Gulf returned to the harbor early the next morning with the barge light as winter weather moved in. Peekskill’s Meenan Oil…
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Between the piers
A pair of Vane Brothers tugs maneuvered a bunkering barge out of the tight space between North River Piers 88 and 90 on Monday just before sunset. The city’s Economic Development Corporation noted this week that Pier 90, on the right of the photo, has deteriorated to an extent it must now be taken out…
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Making waves in the new year
Boston Marine Transport’s 4,200 HP tug Pinuccia came down the North River Friday with the light New York 30 tank barge, returning to the harbor from a New Year’s Day run up to Newburgh to deliver their first products cargo of 2026 up there. The brisk southwest wind was running against the tail end of…
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The visit of Linda Sue
FROM THE ARCHIVES: On New Year’s Eve 2023, Hays Tug and Launch’s Linda Sue arrived on the North River from the Delaware River with a Vane tank barge in tow astern. That was the first time I had seen Linda Sue. The tug and barge were around New York Harbor and on the North River…
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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…
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