Tag: tanker barges
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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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At rest on Sunday
The Vane Brothers 4,200 HP 2008 vintage tug Patuxent was northbound on the North River Sunday morning with the light tank barge Double Skin 601 (361 feet long, 56,000 barrel capacity). Patuxent was heading for anchorage off Riverdale where she spent the day, departing after sundown for the Buckeye Perth Amboy terminal on the Arthur…
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Tanker season
Between the early cold snap boosting demand for heating oil up north and offshore gales keeping demand for North River anchorages high, there has been plenty of tanker barge and ATB traffic on the Hudson this month. Last Thursday, the Susan Rose/RCM 252 ATB came down the North River, returning from Albany. She passed the…
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East Coast (of the Hudson) deliver
Dann Marine’s 2,400 HP tug Gulf Coast came down the North River Friday morning, passing Edgewater and returning with the Double Skin 43 barge from delivering a NY Harbor products cargo at the terminal in New Hamburg, NY. As of Monday morning, Gulf is on the Kill Van Kull having spent the weekend working in…
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Franklin and a big sister
Franklin Reinauer, one of the Reinauer lines few conventional tugs and the smallest in their fleet, spent the weekend at North River anchorage with the 300-foot, 46,000 barrel barge RTC 42. They pulled up anchor Monday morning and headed for an Arthur Kill terminal, passing Reinauer’s the anchored Janice Ann/ RTC 103 ATB, a much…
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Holland America on the North River
Vane Brothers tug Elk River had a bunkering barge alongside Holland America Line’s Volendam at North River Pier 88 a week before Thanksgiving. The Volendam had just departed its autumn cruising territory in New England and Canada and was about to embark on a 30-day trip down to the Amazon in Brazil before beginning winter…
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Working holiday
Kristin Poling, Poling and Cutler’s 5,000 HP tug, spent some pre-Thanksgiving days at a familiar North River anchorage off Guttenberg, NJ with the 80,000 BBL capacity tank barge Eva Leigh Cutler. On the holiday itself, this unit was on the move, leaving New Haven before noon after unloading a New York Harbor cargo and heading…
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Road trip for the Saint
North River regular Saint Emilion had her A87 barge on the wire, heading out of the harbor for a trip offshore Thursday morning. The Saint travelled down to a terminal in Baltimore and then returned, reaching anchorage off Yonkers early Monday morning where she remained through sunrise Monday.
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