Tag: tugs
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Hurry up and wait
Metropolitan Marine tug Pegasus zipped up the North River against the ebb with a bone in her teeth on Saturday morning. She was heading to assist with delivering a bunkering barge alongside the cruise ship MSC Meraviglia at Pier 88 but got there early and waited at unused Pier 92 until the fuel arrived.
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Lightering operation
Saturday afternoon found Carver Marine Towing tugs with hopper barges on the Upper Bay north of the Verrazano. They were alongside the bulk ship Norse Succession, which sounds like the name of an historical novel or maybe a Scandinavian TV series. The ship’s cranes were offloading (lightering) salt brought out from Egypt. The ship’s draft…
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Treasure returned
Dann Marine’s Treasure Coast brought a light cement barge on the hip up the North River on Friday, heading for the Ravenna Amrize plant to load product for delivery downstate or along the northeast Atlantic Coast. TC was a regular on the Hudson River route for years, but it has been a while since I…
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Gypsum day
A pair of Moran tugs, the Margaret Moran and the Laura K Moran, travelled up the North River on Friday to help assist a bulk ship loaded with Spanish gypsum docking at the drywall factory in Buchanan, NY. Margaret, nearly 50 years old and a dean of Moran’s New York Harbor tug fleet, came first,…
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Winter supply chain
The winter logistics supply chain is a key theme on the North River this week. Early in the week we saw heating oil and power plant back-up fuel heading north, and on Tuesday afternoon Carver Marine’s Helen had hoppers loaded with road salt. The cargo was likely lightered off a bulk ship in from Egypt…
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Familiar names
Vane Brothers tug Red Hook, 3,000 HP, came up the North River on Friday with a loaded 50,000 barrel barge heading for the Global Terminal in Albany. Red Hook is New York Harbor based but I rarely see her doing Hudson River work like this, though the name is difficult to look up in my…
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Foliage watch
Marine Highway’s hardworking tug Sarah D was northbound on the North River on Saturday, pushing empty hoppers past Hoboken’s Stevens Institute of Technology. Tree colors have not really turned yet in New York Harbor, despite autumn foliage being well-advanced up north. By Thursday this week, Sarah is back down south distributing stone quarried upstate, currently…
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Here to help
James D Moran, a 6,000 HP tractor tug, came up the North River Sunday afternoon for an assist job at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal, helping to sail the AIDA Diva as she headed for the Bahamas. As of Wednesday afternoon, James is back at Moran’s Staten Island base awaiting her next job.
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Rock and roll
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland was southbound on the North River on Friday morning, passing the Galaxy Towers of Guttenberg NJ. George had a cargo of crushed stone from the Clinton Point quarry loaded aboard the company’s barge Ellie heading for a materials company yard on the Arthur Kill in Perth Amboy. George has been making…
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New York makes, the navy takes
NY State Marine Highway’s Sarah D took a break from her usual stone cargos to move a special tow down the North River on Saturday. Hopper barge 78 held a 100 ton condenser manufactured in western New York State and headed for a naval manufacturing site in Rhode Island, I believe to be installed on…
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Six Pack
Marine Highway’s Sarah D brought a six pack of hopper barges loaded with stone down the North River on Thursday. According to the company’s socials, Sarah picked up about 8,700 tons of stone, the equivalent of 435 loaded semi-trucks, from the Colarusso quarry dock in Hudson, NY a day earlier to bring down to NY…
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When you gotta go
Fresh off Tuesday’s appearance in a supporting role on the NCIS New York season premiere, Henry Marine’s Henry Girls was back at work on the North River on Thursday. Her assignment was perhaps less glamorous than TV work but probably more important as she appeared to be picking up a barge that was swapping out…
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Heading back home
Thursday morning found a tug and livery I have not seen before transiting down the North River. Construction company Mohawk Northeast’s 2,400 HP tug Bridgeport was returning light from the Rondout Creek in Kingston with a bone in her teeth heading back to the company’s base in Groton, CT. Along the way, she passed the…
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Job complete
Maintenance channel dredging operations up in Haverstraw Bay appear to be wrapping up, a few weeks before the October 31 environmental conservation deadline. On Tuesday, Curtin Maritime’s Kimberly C had the derrick barge Avalon on the wire heading out to sea and on to Morehead City, North Carolina. We have seen Kimberly coming through daily…
