Tag: tugs
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Moving iron
The 1400 HP Catherine C Miller of the Miller’s Launch marine services company was maneuvering barges at the Gateway Tunnel cofferdam work site off Pier 66 last Tuesday. If you spend enough time near this spot you will see tugs from pretty much every locally active towing company other than the petroleum product haulers rotating…
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Moving material
Carver Marine’s Mister Jim was Coeymans-bound on the North River on Sunday with the CMT Y NOT 7 deck barge loaded with stone material handling equipment. Jim reached the upstate port the next day and by Tuesday morning is back at the Carver base on the Kill van Kull again.
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Where’s the fire?
Tractor tug Laura K Moran returned to New York Harbor Thursday evening after assisting a bulk ship off the dock at the dry wall factory upriver in Buchanan, NY, a job we more often see handled by Moran’s older harbor tugs like the 1982 vintage Doris Moran who was also on hand to assist but…
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Back and forth
Dann Marine tug Coral Coast came down the North River Saturday morning with a cement barge from the plant in Ravenna, NY, passing the Port Imperial ferry terminal in Weehawken. Coral was on the way to the cement distribution terminal in Flushing Bay in Queens. After spending about 24 hours unloading there, she headed back…
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Private contractor
The veteran tug Liz Vinik, 64 years old and 3,000 HP, headed up the North River Thursday morning with A&S Transportation sludge barge Maria. The barge would be loading treated residual solid waste at the North River sewage plant and ferrying it to the Passaic Valley plant in Newark for dewatering there. The city normally…
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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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