Tag: tanker barges
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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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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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