Tag: tanker barges
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Keeping busy
The 4,200 HP Pinuccia, one of two tugs operated by Boston Marine Transport, came up the North River early Wednesday with an oil products cargo loaded on the company’s New York 30 barge heading for Newburgh. After returning to the harbor the next day, the unit loaded a new cargo and headed up to New…
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Hello again, Number 5
Poling & Cutler’s Marilyn George is paired with the blue-trimmed borrowed barge Number 5 again this week, a combination we last saw in October of last year suggesting one of the other three barges P&C uses for its Hudson River runs might be out of service. Marilyn and Number 5 were Albany-bound on the North…
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Non-petroleum product
The Mandal, a 35,000 deadweight ton Marshall Islands flagged tanker, was northbound on the North River on Memorial Day Monday, arriving from Emden, Germany and bound for the Innovative Surface Solutions plant in Glenmont, NY just south of Albany. The destination means the cargo is very likely to have been magnesium chloride, the principal ingredient…
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Navigating back
The weekend brought steady drenching rain and two days of small craft warning to New York Harbor. Balico Marine Services’ 1,200 HP tug brought the company’s barge Balico 100 down the North River on Sunday, returning to base after bringing a New York Harbor products cargo up to a terminal in Rensselaer.
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Atlantic Coast comes back up the coast
Dann Marine tug Atlantic Coast, which I believe normally works out of the Delaware River or Chesapeake Bay, spent some time on the North River this week with the Vane tank barge Double Skin 51. We also saw her up here back in March with the DS 53 barge. Atlantic left North River anchorage on…
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The Vision thing
Genesis Energy’s Vision with the barge GM 6508 left North River anchorage on Monday and headed for the Kills. We saw Genesis units on the river quite a bit last summer, but less often so far this year. Vision left town by the middle the week and headed for the Delaware River where she remains…
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From Albany to New England
The Janice Ann Reinauer/RTC 103 ATB came down the North River in Friday morning haze, heading for New England with a cargo loaded in Albany, which I believe was probably ethanol though I don’t have anyway of knowing for sure. After a stop to partially unload in New Haven, Janice Ann was moving along the…
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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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