Tag: tanker barges
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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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Hello Number Five
UPDATE: I’m told the barge is borrowed while one P&C’s other barges is out of service, not a permanent addition to the fleet despite the name. Poling & Cutler’s Marylin George and her blue and white painted tanker barge “Number Five”, first seen heading upriver a few days ago, spent a few hours anchored off…
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Campbell and Long Island
The Centerline Logistics tug C.F. Campbell, who we have not seen on North River Notes this year, came up here early Friday with the barge Long Island to anchor for the weekend. On the way up, she passed the anchored Kirby Mount St. Elias ATB which had spent most of the week anchored off Guttenberg.…
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Horse of a different color
Poling & Cutler’s Marilyn George came up the North River Thursday morning with an unfamiliar oil products barge. Rather than one of the company’s four familiar green and white painted tankers, Marilyn was pushing a blue and white painted barge Number Five which I’ve not seen before on the North River. The trip was otherwise…
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A little more sugar please
The small Panama flagged bulk ship Century Royal came up the North River Thursday afternoon with a cargo of Mexican sugar loaded in Veracruz and heading for the Domino refinery in Yonkers. On the way up, the ship passed the anchored Vane tug Pocomoke with a loaded looking barge, seemingly killing some time before heading…
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Up from the Gulf Coast
The big Barbara Carol Ann Moran/Louisiana ATB, a 5,100 HP tug paired with a 468-foot barge, made rare trip up the North River Tuesday evening, heading for a terminal in Rensselaer. Similar to the last time we saw her in May of this year, her voyage appears based on what I can see on AIS…
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There and back
The Reinauer Twins/RTC 104 ATB entered the North River Tuesday morning with an oil products cargo bound for Albany as J80 sailboats sailing upwind tacked to stay out of her path. After unloading at the Global terminal up there, the unit came back down the North River Friday afternoon with the barge light and high…
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A short visit
The Vane Brothers tug Charleston had the loaded tanker barge Double Skin-506 passing Weehawken in the morning sunlight on Thursday, heading for the oil products terminal just north of Newburgh. After a quick turn there, Charleston was back in New York Harbor 24 hours later, currently docked at the Vane base in Gowanus Bay/Red Hook.
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Margaret and Miriam
A pair of Moran tugs ran light up the North River on Thursday, heading for Buchanan where they would assist a bulk ship leaving the dock at the wallboard plant after delivering a cargo of gypsum. On the way up, Margaret shadowed Vane tug Pocomoke heading for Albany with a tank barge probably partially loaded.…
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Spuyten Duyvil from above
A stop at Rockefeller Lookout on the Palisades Interstate Parkway affords drone-like views of Spuyten Duyvil down below At anchor Saturday morning were the construction vessel Argo and the Vane Brothers tug Philadelphia with a light tanker barge. Argo is working on the Champlain Hudson Power Express Champlain Hudson Power Express cable which will make…
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Leaving town
Southbound tugs on the North River with barges on the wire are usually heading out of town, and that was the case for Hudson River regular Saint Emilion with the barge A87 last weekend, and, a few days later, Genesis Vision with GM 8001. The Saint was heading for a terminal on the Delaware River…
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