Tag: tankers
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No more port fees
Fure Viten, a small 18,000 deadweight ton Swedish flag tanker, arrived on the North River Wednesday morning bound for the Buckeye terminal in Albany. The tanker is LNG powered, with tanks evident on the deck, and also able to run on liquified biogas. Fure Viten was constructed in 2021 in a shipyard in China and…
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Cooking with gas
It has been busy month for foreign flag cargo vessels on the North River, as already noted in yesterday’s post. These tankers and bulk ships can bring imports from overseas or collect material in Coeymans or Albany for export, but can not move cargo between U.S. ports. On Tuesday, the small Swedish flag products tanker…
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Marine highway delivery
Ardmore Dauntless, a 38,000 deadweight-ton tanker, came up the North River Tuesday afternoon, arriving from Saint John’s, in New Brunswick, Canada. They went on to moor at the Innovative Surface Solutions plant located in Glenmont, south of Albany, which means magnesium chloride, the primary ingredient in the company’s deicing product, is a likely cargo. Innovative…
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Asphalt delivery
San Du Ao, a small 13,000 deadweight ton Hong Kong flagged bitumen tanker, came up the North River Friday evening, passing the GW Bridge, Spuyten Duyvil and J24 sailboat. The tanker was arriving from Colombia, not a very common point of origin for cargos coming up the Hudson, and was likely carrying asphalt. San Du…
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Leaving so soon?
After a quick turn at the Buckeye Terminal in Albany, MH Future was back on the North River Thursday evening, passing the Spuyten Duyvil rail bridge and heading for sea less than sixty hours after she passed in the other direction Tuesday morning. She was heading for Halifax and looked to be drawing a bit…
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Tuesday Tanker
MH Future, a small 20,000 deadweight ton Marshall Islands-flagged tanker, came up the North River early Tuesday heading for the Buckeye Terminal in Albany. Future was arriving from a terminal on the St. Lawrence between Montreal and Quebec City and had been at a terminal near Gibraltar prior to that. She may be bringing a…
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Back in fashion
Harbour Fashion, a compact 475-foot 17,000 deadweight ton products tanker came up the North River Wednesday afternoon, arriving from Montreal and heading for the Buckeye terminal in Albany. We have seen this vessel on this route moving between Canada and Albany before and she may be collecting ethanol for export back to Canada or else…
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Bloomsbury on the Hudson
The tanker CL Virginia Wolf came up the North River Tuesday, arriving from Dominican Republic and heading for the Global Terminal in Albany. Fuel cargos from the Caribbean have not been typical lately, though perhaps the product was loaded at earlier port calls in Northern Europe. At nearly 50,000 dead-weight tons and 600 feet in…
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Ag products
The Greek-flagged tanker Irini came up the North River Thursday, headed for the Port of Albany where she tied up by the feed terminal there. AIS shows port of origin as Novorossiysk Russia and an intermediate stop in Fairless Hills on the Delaware. The routing suggests fertilizer or another agricultural product like molasses as possible…
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Arriving light
Easterly As Omaria, a small 20k deadweight ton foreign-flagged tanker came up the North River early Wednesday en route to a terminal in Albany from Canada. She was very high in the water and one possibility is that she will be loading an ethanol cargo for export back to Canada.
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Rain, rain go away
The region has moved from storm to storm, with long periods of rain interrupted by occasional sunny days. This past weekend was particularly torrential, causing severe flooding on land and leading to combined sewer overflows in the area’s waterways. With water quality taking a hit, the swim portion of the New York City Triathlon was…
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Just visiting
A trip to the East River and Hell Gate with the help of ticket on NYC Ferry on Tuesday provided a different perspective on the archipelago and a look at some vessels less often seen on the North River.
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Back to work
The first week of September following Labor Day marks the traditional and meteorological start of autumn. Tug and barge combinations crowded the North River anchorages over Labor Day but quickly dispersed Tuesday, heading for new cargos, while through traffic was also fairly heavy after the holiday weekend. Later Tuesday, the Timothy Reinauer/RTC 84 ATB picked…
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Post Deluvian
New York Harbor and the North River escaped the worst of yesterday’s heavy rains, but the Hudson Valley was hard hit to the north on Sunday, with severe flooding. The water will flow south this week, extending ebbs, shortening floods, brining all types of debris with it, and, possibly, turning the water brown. There was…
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Comings and goings
After the weird air quality conditions of the work week, the weekend was refreshingly normal. Familiar tugs and barges went about their usual business, with oil products moving north and stone coming south, and empties moving in the opposite direction.
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