Tag: tanker barges
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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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Looking for a New England
The Janice Ann Reinauer/RTC 103 ATB was southbound on the North River Wednesday evening, with the barge loaded and bound for Providence. We usually assume New England-bound tank barge cargos loaded in Albany are ethanol brought from the Midwest by rail as that is the main liquid fuel cargo which moves south on the river…
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Fuel delivery with a helper
The Vane Brothers tug Red Hook arrived at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal Wednesday morning with a bunkering barge for refueling Norwegian Aqua. Metropolitan Marine’s Pegasus was on hand to assist. Aqua arrived well-before sunrise, returning from Bermuda, and is set to leave later in the day for the same destination.
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Familiar face
The B. Franklin Reinauer/RTC 81 ATB, a regular on the Hudson River run, came up the North River and passed Weehawken last Monday heading for anchorage. A week later, B. Franklin is at anchor on the Bay Ridge Flats after spending the night at the Kinder Morgan terminal in Carteret, probably loading a cargo.
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North River to South River
The Saint Emilion tug came down the North River Saturday morning with her A87 barge on the wire. Usually, when we see tugs towing astern on this section of the estuary they are arriving from or heading for open water and that was the case here. The Saint headed out through the Narrows and down…
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Back to base
Lucy Reinauer, a 4,300 HP tug paired with the 300-foot long RTC 42 barge, left anchorage on the North River Friday morning after a windy Thursday night as Hurricane Erin passed by well offshore. The unit headed for the Erie Basin barge port.
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Rough seas ahead
The Vane Brothers tug Red Hook had a bunkering barge alongside Carnival Venezia at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal on Tuesday morning. Venezia departed later that day and managed to skirt along the west side of Hurricane Erin, arriving in the Bahamas Friday morning.
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On the move
Genesis Vigilant came down the North River after leaving anchor off Yonkers Tuesday morning with the GM 8001 barge on the hip, heading for the Upper Bay. After a visit to Caddells on the KvK, Vigilant brought the barge back upriver to Yonkers where she remains Wednesday morning.
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Taking bunkers
The small local bunkering tanker Chandra B had a fuel delivery on Monday morning for the 187-foot yacht Elis et Mar which has been anchored on the North River off West New York for an extended period this summer. Further south and later in the day, Vane Brothers tug Elk River had a larger client…
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The Two Towers
We have seen a lot of Polling & Cutler’s Evelyn Cutler on the North River this summer. The 52-year-old 3,800 HP tug, one of five in the P&C fleet, passed Fort Tryon Park and the Cloisters Thursday evening with the Noelle Cutler barge loaded up with a fuel cargo for delivery in Rensselaer. Saturday morning…
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Back stage passes
A visit to the Kill van Kull and Newark Bay Wednesday evening courtesy of Open House New York and the Port Authority can feel like getting back stage for a North River watcher. Much of the cargo we see moving up and down the river originates or terminates here, and many of the tugs who…
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Coming or going?
BBC Amethyst, an Antigua-flagged superstructure forward heavy lift cargo ship, came down the North River Monday evening. She was heading for sea and her next port of call in the Dominican Republic after calling at Port of Albany where she either delivered some project cargo from overseas or collected something heavy for export abroad. On…
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A green and white Thursday
Three of the five tugs that currently wear the distinctive Poling & Cutler green and white livery passed up the North River on Thursday pushing three of the company’s four barges. In the morning, Evelyn Cutler, 3,800 HP, passed by returning from a delivery in Albany with the Noelle Cutler barge. In the afternoon, Kimberly…
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Tag team
Reinauer Transportation ATBs were moving petroleum products up the North River Monday morning en route to Albany. Ruth M/RTC 102 came through early, seemingly originating at the Bayonne IMTT, followed an hour later by Janice Ann/RTC 103 who seems to have set out from the dock at Kinder Morgan on the Arthur Kill in Perth…
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Vane ATB makes a rare visit
We often see Vane Brothers tugs and tank barges anchored in the North River, passing through on the way to Albany or bunkering cruise ships in the terminal, but its rare to see their big ATB units up here. But this week, the Wachapreague/DS-803, a 4,400 HP tug paired with a 405-foot bow thruster-equipped barge,…
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