Tag: tanker barges
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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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Taking a winter beating
Centerline’s Adeline Marie returned to NY Harbor early Tuesday with Marc N after an oil products delivery run up north. The barge looks like it has been through some things, probably due to running through heavy ice flows this winter. The Lincoln Tunnel vents in Weehawken are in the background of the first photo.
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Charleston, Charleston
Vane Brothers tug Charleston came up the North River with the DS-506 barge on Friday, heading for anchorage. They are passing West New York in the photo. Currently, the tug is eastbound on the Sound.
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Collecting a barge
Kirby tug Ross Sea came up the North River early Friday running light, passing the anchored Reinauer Josephine ATB on the way up the West Side. They were heading for Kingston to pick up a barge being serviced at the Feeney Shipyard there. Ross Sea returned with the 386-foot Randy King tank barge Sunday afternoon…
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Pushing and pulling
Dann Marine’s Chesapeake Coast came up the North River with the Chesapeake barge loaded on Wednesday and anchored north of the bridge. Friday afternoon, the crew configured for towing astern and headed for the Narrows and out of town, heading south. By Saturday morning they are clearing Cape May.
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Work in progress
Running lights were still visible as Poling-Cutler’s Marilyn George came down the North River early Thursday, returning from Albany with the Eva Leigh Cutler barge. In the photo, they are passing new residential construction underway in Weehawken.
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Three’s Company
A trio of Centerline Logistics tugs gathered in the North River Monday afternoon. William F Fallon Jr. had been anchored off North Bergen since the weekend on the way back from Albany with the Flaco barge and Jeffrey S and Hawsepiper came up to meet her. The party broke up after a few hours with…
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Moving volume
The Nicole Reinauer/RTC 135 ATB came up the North River Saturday morning. With the barge 460-feet long and the tug 119 feet, this is one of the biggest ATBs we see going up river regularly, or perhaps the biggest. This combination often only goes up as far as Newburgh, which was their initial destination on…
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Lion Thursday
Centerline Logistics units with their lion logo were busy moving oil product up the North River from a Carteret terminal to distribution points up north on Thursday. William F Fallon Jr and barge Flaco came through in the morning, Albany-bound, followed by Adeline Marie with Marc N bound for Newburgh in the afternoon that day.…
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Stopping by
The big Kirby Cape Henry/DBL 103 ATB came up the North River as winds picked up Thursday. The barge looked loaded but they weren’t continuing north with the cargo, just anchored for a while off Edgewater before returning to the Kills.
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Peekskill-bound
Dann Marine’s Gulf Coast has not, I believe, been based in NY Harbor for a few years, but this winter has been around and doing Hudson River work. On Tuesday, GC came up the North River with Vane Barge DS-43 heading for the small products terminal in Peekskill. They passed the anchored Curtis Reinauer/RTC 82…
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Moving through ice
Stephen Reinauer/RTC 61 moved through floating ice on the North River Thursday. The barge had a fuel cargo bound for a terminal in Albany. Stephen was back in New York Harbor before midnight Saturday night.
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Below the cliffs, amidst the ice
The Vane Brothers tug Philadelphia and barge DS 601 have spent the past few days anchored amid the ice flows on the North River. In the photo, they are sitting below the cliffs of the Bergen Hill in North Bergen on Wednesday.
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Time on the river
Poling-Cutler’s Kristin Poling spent some time this week anchored off West New York with the barge Eva Leigh Cutler. Seen in the photo early Thursday with the Galaxy Apartments of Guttenberg in the background.
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