Tag: tugs
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Cooperation at the dam
Work continues at the Gateway Tunnel cofferdam site off Pier 66 on the North River, with funding for the rail tunnel project restored by court order earlier this year. Tug work is spread across a range of locally active towing firms and Thursday morning found Haugland Group towboat Emma Rose maneuvering a crane barge while…
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Donjon Standby
Wednesday evening found DonJon Marine’s dredging team standing by with the tug Casey Ann and dredge Delaware Bay seemingly spudded down just outside the pier head line off North River Pier 86. Maintenance work at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal appears to perhaps be wrapping up or taking a pause. Further north, DonJon colleagues on Brian…
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Getting takeout
Dann Ocean’s Captain Dann, 53 years old and 2,250 HP, ran light up the North River early Wednesday morning. The Captain was heading for the Feeney shipyard in Kingston where they were likely collecting a barge. Monday morning finds her starting her week at the Vane Brothers dock at the mouth of the Gowanus Canal…
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Scrap Sunday
Carver Marine Towing’s Daisy Mae came down the North River on Sunday bringing hoppers loaded with scrap metal and one with some kind of aggregate down from the Port of Coeymans heading for the harbor.
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Stone run
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland came up the North River late afternoon Friday, passing the Stevens Institute on Castle Point in Hoboken with a light hopper heading for the Clinton Point quarry near Poughkeepsie. George returned on Sunday with a stone cargo heading for the materials dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and then continued out…
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On the cement trail
Dann Marine tug Coral Coast (56-years-old, 3,000 HP) came down the North River just before sunset on Thursday, passing Hoboken’s Stevens Institute and Jersey City with a loaded cement transporter barge from the plant in Ravenna, NY. Coral brought the tow to the distribution terminal on Flushing Bay in Queens, where they remain Friday morning.
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From the archives: passing Lackawanna
FROM THE ARCHIVES: On this day last year, Dann Marine tug Sapphire Coast ran light down the North River, passing Hoboken’s Lackawanna Terminal. Sapphire had been up in Yonkers, assisting with sailing a dry bulk barge at the sugar refinery there and was returning to the harbor. The sugar plant had operated in Yonkers for…
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Power supply
DonJon Marine tug Brian Nicholas, 60-years old though rebuilt and repowered, had the company’s Farrell 256 crane alongside Con Ed’s Pier 98 facility this week. The crane appeared to be assisting with work on some of the equipment on the structure. The pier, in addition to serving as a docking point for barges carrying backup…
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Piling on
A pair of Miller’s Launch tugs, Catherine and Shawn, were at Pier 94 Saturday morning maneuvering construction barges. Work to convert the pier to movie studios and soundstages with a public walkway along the north and west exposures is complete, but filings show piling restoration efforts will continue into 2027. The previous version of the…
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Mineral resources
A Dann Marine tug had a light cement transporter barge in tow on the hip heading back to the cement plant in Ravenna last Sunday. She passed the Buchanan12 on one whistle with her usual loads of crushed dolomite heading from the Clinton Point quarry to the Jersey City flats. The Hudson Valley’s rich mineral…
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Project supply
Miller’s Launch tug Michael Miller stemmed off Hoboken on Tuesday with a barge loaded with silos of concrete for the Gateway Tunnel riverbed stabilization project a bit further north. Two days later, attorneys for the states of New York and New Jersey were back in federal court facing off against the federal government and arguing…
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Help is on the way
When we see Moran Towing Corporation tugs leaving the harbor and traveling up the North River beyond the cruise terminal it usually means there is assist work to do at the wallboard plant up in Buchanan, New York. This was the case on Saturday when Margaret and Miriam Moran passed by on their way to…
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Private sludge
Vinik Transportation was moving residual sludge from New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection North River plant to the Passaic Valley plant in Newark for de-watering. The tug Liz Vinik, last seen clearing ice around Pier 98 a few months ago, had the privately-owned sludge barge Maria in tow on the hip, passing Weehawken in…
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Time for some yard work
Deborah Quinn, a 1962-vintage 2,200 HP tug with classic lines, ran up the North River early Monday morning, heading for the shipyard in Kingston NY. Deborah is owned by Breakwater Marine Construction according to the Tugboatinformation website and I believe she has mainly been working on the East River resiliency project on the East Side…
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Cement season
Cement is moving on the North River this month as construction activity ramps up with the spring thaw. Dann Marine’s Pearl Coast came down from the Amrize cement plant in Ravenna, NY on the first day of April with a loaded cement transporter. Pearl and other Dann tugs make regular runs down the Hudson delivering…
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On Haverstraw Bay
Dann Ocean’s Captain Dann ran light up Haverstraw Bay on Saturday morning, having come up from the North River heading for the shipyard in Kingston, probably to collect a barge. After a quick turn, the tug came back downriver, left town and headed for Philly, probably to deliver the barge she probably collected. By then…
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Running light past the cliffs
Poling & Cutler’s Evelyn Cutler ran light up the North River on Saturday afternoon, passing the Palisades at Englewood Cliffs and heading for the IPT terminal in Rensselaer. Kimberly Poling was there at the same time, and Evelyn perhaps took over her barge as Kimberly subsequently headed for the shipyard in Kingston. As of Monday…
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