Tag: tugs
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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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Metal and salt
Carver Marine tug Daisy Mae (9-years old, 3,200 HP) returned to the harbor on Friday morning with a hopper loaded with scrap metal, along with a few light hoppers one of which still had some of what I assume is salt visible along the gunnel. Carver tugs have been ferrying huge amounts of salt upriver…
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Green and greener
For as long I can remember, New York Sanitation Department barges hauling waste paper away from North River Pier 99 have been painted blue, in a slightly darker shade than the livery of the DonJon Marine tugs which haul them under contract to the recycling mill on the Staten Island shore of the Arthur Kill.…
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Keep the salt coming
Road salt from Egypt continues to move up the North River this week, heading for the Port of Coeymans and then onward to municipal storage facilities to replenish what was expended over the winter. On Friday morning, the bulk ship Princess Margo came through, catching the morning sun interrupted by the shadows cast by the…
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Some more salt
Carver Marine Towing’s 3,000 HP tug Helen was northbound on the North River Sunday, bound for the Port of Coeymans with hopper barges loaded what I believe was salt lightered off a bulk ship anchored in the Upper Bay. Road salt is in demand up north as municipalities look to rebuild their stocks after a…
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New York Makes, the World Takes
New York State exports, both foreign and domestic, were moving down the North River this weekend after leaving the Port of Ablany. The Antigua-flagged superstructure-forward cargo ship BBC Bremen passed through after sundown Saturday, I believe loaded with components for onshore wind installations manufactured by GE Vernova in Schenectady and headed for Australia via the…
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Back in service
Buchanan Marine’s Buchanan12 is back on the North River over the past week after a notable absence. The 3,000 HP towboat is normally a daily presence on the river, bringing hoppers loaded with crushed dolomite stone down from the Tilcon Clinton Point quarry just south of Poughkeepsie to moorings off Jersey City and then returning…
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