Tag: tanker barges
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Refueling New England
Vane’s Castine / DS 550 ATB, the former Jordan Rose / RTC 250, stopped in briefly on the North River on Monday upon return from a run up to Portsmouth before heading for the Buckeye Port Reading terminal presumably to load up a new cargo for another trip. While up here, Castine passed Poling &…
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Rain check
Genesis Energy’s Vigilant had a New York Harbor products cargo loaded on the GM 8001 by Thursday morning, I believe at Bayway. But with the Nor Easter coming in, she came up the North River, headed for anchorage off Yonkers to hunker down for the weekend. On Monday, with conditions improving, Vigilant was on her…
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Let’s get that barge
Vane tug Fells Point was visible on the north side of North River Pier 88 on Tuesday, heading back to the south side to retrieve a bunkering barge that had been left alongside a visiting cruise ship there. Fells Point is New York Harbor-based, about 12 years old with 3,000 HP. The historic Weehawken water…
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Nor’easter
The North River runs on a roughly southwest to northeast axis once it passes Weehawken and with the northeast winds already gusting near 30 knots by noon on Friday, there was some swell on the river even with the tide still ebbing. Vane tug Philadelphia was northbound with the light Doubleskin 508 tank barge heading…
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Diaspora
Equipment from the old ex-Bouchard, ex Rose Cay Maritime fleet continues to find its way back to the North River. Over recent weeks we have seen the Jordan Rose, Susan Rose and Anna Rose ATBs operating here, as well as the non-ATB barge RCM 260. Saturday brought another barge, the RCM 262 which we used…
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Tower views
Towers on shore provided good backdrops for tugs moving cargo on the North River Wednesday despite sub-optimal photography conditions. The Dace Reinauer/RTC 62 ATB was passing the World Trade Center with a New York Harbor products cargo bound for Albany, Dann’s Coral Coast had a loaded cement barge outbound from the Amrize plant in Ravenna…
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Hello Linda Sue
Hays Tug Linda Sue, who I haven’t seen on the North River in some time, came up from Philly on Wednesday with Vane tank barge Doubleskin 55. Linda took anchorage off Spuyten Duyvil where she remained into the weekend.
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Quenames
Quenames, the older of two tugs in Boston Marine Transport’s fleet, was Newburgh bound on the North River Thursday afternoon. In the photo she is passing West New York with a New York Harbor oil products cargo loaded aboard the company’s New England 29 barge. By Friday evening, Quenames and New England were back in…
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Working the river
Kristin Poling came down the North River on the ebb Tuesday evening with the light Edwin A. Poling barge, having left anchorage off Yonkers where she spent a few days after completing a run up to a terminal in Rensselaer. The 5,000 HP Kristin is the biggest of Poling & Cutler’s five tugs and we…
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Homeport refueling
Vane Brothers tug Cape Fear was on bunkering duty at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal again on Thursday. She had a refueling barge alongside the Carnival Venezia on the north side of North River Pier 88. Venezia is home ported in New York for the summer, running round trips to Bermuda and a couple to the…
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At work and at rest
A week ago Monday found Dace Reinauer, 1968-vintage but much modified and updated over the years, Albany- and Newburgh-bound on the North River with a New York Harbor products cargo loaded on RTC 62. Along the way, she passed the Reinauer Twins/RTC 104 ATB at anchor off North Bergen after returning from a run up…
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Under new management
When a tug comes up the North River with a barge on the wire, it usually means they are arriving in New York Harbor from offhshore. That was the case on Friday when Vane tug Anacostia passed through with the RCM 260 tank barge on a short leash. Anacostia was coming up from the Gulf,…
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Up from the South River
The Vane Brothers tug Potomac, who I last saw almost exactly a year ago bunkering a container ship in Port Newark, came up the North River on Tuesday with a loaded-looking Double Skin 507, arriving from Philadelphia. After killing some time off North Bergen, she headed for IMTT Bayonne, perhaps to deliver the cargo. In…
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Regulars brave the smoke
Air quality was getting lousy again Saturday morning as North River regular Saint Emilion came through with the A87 tank barge, Albany-bound for the second weekend in a row. The Saint was overtaken on one by another regular, the DEP sludge tanker Red Hook heading for the North River water treatment plant to load.
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Back in town
Genesis Vision, a 3,620 HP tug, was heading for anchorage off Yonkers on Monday with the company’s GM 6508 65,000 barrel tank barge. The unit remains up there as we head into the weekend. We saw Vision up here in April of this year but I believe she has spent some time working out of…
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One of the regulars
Four of Poling & Cutler’s five tugs are regulars on the Hudson River petroleum products runs, and the 1973-vintage 3,800 HP Evelyn Cutler is the oldest of the fleet. On Sunday, she was southbound on the North River, returning from a run up to Rensselaer with the 30,000 barrel barge Noelle Cutler. Wednesday morning finds…
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Home away from home
A sail down to the Upper Bay Saturday found the GCS 230 barge stored on one of the moorings on the Greenville flats. We typically see GCS 230 tied up at North River Pier 98 during the winter months where it is used to hold backup fuel for Con Ed’s 59th Street steam plan, but…
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After New Haven
Monday found Reinauer’s B. Franklin/RTC 81 ATB arriving at anchorage on the North River just as Centerline’s C.F. Campbell tug was leaving with the Flaco barge. The units passed each other off Pier i. The B. Franklin was arriving from a run out to New Haven and didn’t stay long—by late Monday she was loading…
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Three’s Company
The camera lens compresses distance and can make the North River look narrow from the shore, but it is at least a 1/2 nautical mile wide as it reaches past Manhattan and the channel can easily accommodate multiple vessels. On Sunday afternoon, Centerline tug C.F. Campbell came up the east side of the river coming…
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Maddie and Kristin, stone and fuel
New York Sate Marine Highway Transportation’s Maddie K, 2,000 HP and nearly 50 years old, brought stone hoppers back upstate last weekend.She passed the Kristin Poling, the largest tug in the Poling & Cutler fleet, off Guttenberg where Kristin had spent most of the week anchored with the Eva Leigh Cutler tank barge. A little…
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