Tag: tanker barges
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Pairing up
Heavy winds earlier this week saw a number of Reinauer units come up the North River to anchor. On Tuesday evening, Stephen Reinauer brought RTC 60 up, shadowed by Lucy Reinauer who then took over the barge at anchor while Stephen returned to the harbor. On Wednesday morning, the big Reinauer Twins/RTC 104 ATB came…
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Sunday on the hip
Patrice McAllister spent Sunday anchored on the North River off 72nd Street with tank barge RCM 262 on the hip. This is the usual configuration we see up here for this tug and barge when the barge is light. As of Tuesday morning , new cargo has been loaded at a New Jersey terminal and…
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After a long icy winter
Centerline Logistics big 6,140 HP tug Hawsepiper and the 350-foot barge Flaco (NOT named after the famous owl) have been regulars on the Hudson River route this winter and now into spring. On Friday the pair headed north again with a cargo. On Sunday, they were anchored off 72nd Street with the barge paint clearly…
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Newburgh bound
Boston Marine Transport’s 4,200 HP tug Pinuccia had the company’s New York 30 barge loaded with product and headed or Newburgh on Thursday. They were passing NY Waterway’s Weehawken maintenance area.
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Going out like a lamb
A clear and windy Thursday saw Morgan Reinauer with RTC 103 and Saint Emilion with tank barge A87 anchored in the North River about 1/2 mile apart from each other and about 4 miles south of the GW Bridge. They both stopped here on the way back to the harbor from products deliveries in Albany.…
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Passing by
Poling-Cutler tug Marilyn George spent some time anchored on the North River last week with the barge Edwin A. Poling. On Sunday they were passed by colleagues on Kimberly Poling returning to the harbor with barge Noelle Cutler.
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New and old, big and small, heavy and light
The first day of spring brought warm moist air and fog to the North River. The B. Franklin Reinauer/ RTC 81 ATB (4000 HP tug launched in 2012, 347 foot barge) was heading for Albany with a products cargo and passed Stephen Reinauer with RTC 61 who had anchored off West New York on the…
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Off to load
Vane Brothers tug Patuxent left anchorage north of the GW Bridge with the DS-508 tank barge Monday afternoon and headed down the North River, en route to Perth Amboy to load a new cargo. They are passing the cliffs of North Bergen NJ in the photos.
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Uncle Dace and the Twins
Dace Reinauer / RTC 62 came up the North River Sunday evening with a cargo heading for the Global Terminal in Newburgh as storms moved in. They passed the much newer and bigger Reinauer Twins / RTC 104 ATB at anchor off Guttenberg after a visit to the Sprague Terminal in Port Morris, the Bronx.…
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Monochrome
Rose Cay Maritime’s Susan Rose moved under the GW Bridge, passing the Little Red Lighthous northbound with a cargo for Rensselaer Thursday. By Sunday morning, she is back in New York Harbor.
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Below the cliffs
Dann Marine’s Chesapeake Coast and the Chesapeake tank barge are anchored off Spuyten Duyvil this week, below the Englewood Cliffs section of the Palisades.
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Two-way traffic
The Poling-Cutler line had cargo moving both directions on the North River last Monday (March 3). Evelyn Cutler was northbound for Albany with the loaded Noelle Cutler barge, and Kimberly Poling was southbound with Edward A. Poling with what appeared to be a rare cargo loaded in Newburgh heading for the harbor.
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And Wye Not?
The Vane Brothers tug Wye River came up the North River early Thursday with a DS-58 and a late winter products cargo heading for Albany.
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A pre-tariff cargo
CB Pacific, a 38,000 deadweight ton products tanker came up the North River at sunset Saturday night, arriving from the refinery port of St. Johns New Brunswick and set to get to a terminal in Albany just a few days before the 10% tariff on Canadian energy products goes into effect. They passed the Vane…
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On the hip and on the wire
Most of the tugs we see with tanker barges on the North River are in the notch, pushing from astern, but sometimes we see other configurations. On Thursday, Kristen Poling returned from Boston via the Sound with the Eva Leigh Cutler on the wire, and on Friday, Patrice McAllister returned to the harbor with RCM…
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Not spring yet
March might be coming in like a lamb but there is still ice work up north. Coast Guard Cutter Sturgeon Bay, one of two 140-foot ice breakers based in Bayonne, was on the way back up the North River on the final day of February, passing Vane tug Potomac anchored with a light tank barge…
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Big and small, old and new
Reinauer Transportation units of different size and age were busy on the North River this week. The big Haggerty Girls/ RTC 107 ATB, with 413 feet on the barge and a 4,000 HP tug headed north on Tuesday for fuel deliveries in Newburgh and Albany. On Wednesday, 1967 vintage 2,200 HP Jill Reinauer had 297…
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Bye bye barge
Centerline’s HMS Justice was at Con Ed’s Pier 98 on Wednesday to retrieve the HMS 2605 barge left there earlier this year. The tug’s crew and maybe a tankerman made up to the barge bow to bow, backed it out into the channel, and then ran around to the stern to push to the GMD…
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Hey, it’s Franklin
Franklin Reinauer, I believe the smallest tug in the Reinauer fleet, was on the North River Monday with the 300-foot RTC 42 tank barge. After spending a very windy morning at anchor on the river, Franklin was heading back to the harbor Monday afternoon, passing the Port Imperial ferry terminal in Weehawken and the West…
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Long cold winter
The long cold winter has meant lots of demand for heating oil up north and the Hudson River has been busy with tank barge traffic. On Friday morning, the Saint Emilion tug/ A87 tank barge pair operated by Poling-Cutler were heading for Rensselaer and Hawsepiper/ Flaco were en route to Buckeye Newburgh with pool product…
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