Tag: tanker barges
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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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Winter supplies
Lindsaylou, a 620-foot Marshall Islands flagged bulk ship, came up the North River at midday Friday, overtaking the the Poling & Cutler tug Marilyn George Rensselaer-bound with the loaded Edwin A Poling oil products barge. Lindsaylou was arriving from Egypt and heading for the Port of Coeymans and a salt cargo seems most likely.
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Back from New Haven
Kristin Poling returned from a run up to New Haven with the Eva Leigh Cutler barge on Tuesday afternoon and took anchorage in the relatively sheltered North River off Guttenberg overnight. Gale warnings went into effect Tuesday evening, with gusts above 30 knots observed at Robbin’s Reef in the Upper Bay.
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After the wind
Vane Brothers tug Choptank had the DS-54 tank barge on the hip heading down the North River for the harbor midday Thursday. A gale had come through overnight toppling trees on land, including a willow in Riverside Park South, but winds had settled down by morning.
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All in the family
Both of Boston Marine Transport’s tugs and two of the company’s three barges were moving oil products on the North River this week. On Thursday afternoon, the 3,000 HP Quenames was heading for Newburgh with a cargo loaded on the New England 29 barge. The next morning, the bigger 4,200 HP Pinuccia was Albany-bound with…
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Help from the locals
The small cruise ship Hanseatic Inspiration arrived at North River Pier 90 with assistance from a pair of Moran tractor tugs this week, and then was refueled by a barge brought alongside by Vane’s Fort McHenry. We see smaller cruise ships like this more often in the autumn months as leaf viewing cruises up to…
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Reunited
Poling & Cutler’s Marilyn George was paired with the familiar green and white Edwin A Poling barge last week after several trips up the North River with the substitute blue and white barge Number Five earlier this fall. The unit had a products cargo heading for Albany as she passed under the bridge. This morning…
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Vane in train
Vane Brothers tug/barge combinations have been busy on the North River this past week, either heading for Albany with cargo, returning light, or just enjoying sheltered anchorage amid heavy wind conditions. On Tuesday just after sunrise, Pocomoke had light tank barge DS-56 on the hip returning from Albany and heading for the Vane base in…
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Port Jeff Commuter
The Vane Brothers Charleston/DS 506 ATB, a 4,200 HP tug paired with a 363 foot tank barge, came up the North River on Wednesday of last week after a run out to Port Jefferson on Long Island Sound, heading for anchorage. After, I believe, loading up and making another run to Port Jeff later in…
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Get out of the weather
The Reinauer Twins/RTC 104 ATB arrived early Saturday and got a good parking space in the anchorage area north of the GW Bridge ahead of the nor’ easter which arrived in the harbor Sunday morning. By morning, there were 11 ATBs and tug/barge combinations anchored between the bridge and Yonkers, with an additional four units…
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Smaller doses
Heating oil season was kicking in Wednesday, with temperatures poised to drop, brisk winds, and a recently full moon elevating tidal currents. For whatever reason, tanker barge traffic was dominated by some of the smallest units we see on the Hudson. The Matthew Tibbetts, one of Reinauer’s smallest tugs and one we have not seen…
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