Tag: tugs
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Big visitor
Tuesday morning found the big Kirby Sea Hawk / ATC 21 ATB emerging from the fog on the North River opposite Port Imperial. The unit had dropped anchor a bit south of the usual North River anchorage area after returning from Boston during the heavy rains late Monday. With an 8,000 HP tug and a…
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Made in New York
Island Trader, an 800-HP tug owned by Stevens Towing of South Carolina, came down the North River heading for the Upper Bay with a deck barge loaded with a shrink-wrapped piece of heavy equipment. This is likely something manufactured by GE in Schenectady and transferred to a barge at the Port of Albany. From here…
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Getting stone
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland, 18 years old and 3,000 HP, was northbound on the North River with the company’s hopper barge Ellen on Tuesday morning. The tow was en route to the Clinton Point quarry just south of Poughkeepsie where they would likely be loading a stone cargo for delivery back in New York Harbor.
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Decommissioning
Donjon tugs Douglas J (4,800 HP) and Paul Andrew (1,200 HP) brought the company’s big Chesapeake 1000 crane down the North River on Thursday afternoon, passing Guttenberg on the way back to the harbor after heavy lift work at the old Yonkers sugar refinery. My guess is that work there probably relates to decommissioning the…
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Event parking
Work is underway this week on a new temporary docking structure between unused North River Piers 90 and 92. With the big Sail250 celebration just a few weeks away, the city is working to increase pier space for visiting tall ships and a group of four connected spud barges will provided a home for several…
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Made in New York
Dann Marine’s Pearl Coast, 48 years old and 5,600 HP, has been moving cement from the Amrize cement plant near Ravenna NY, to terminals in New England over the past month. On Monday, Pearl came up the North River with a light cement transporter barge, heading back to the plant for more product after offloading…
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Substitute
Wednesday afternoon found a rare sight on the North River: towboat Buchanan12 returning to her Erie Basin base running light without her usual raft of crushed stone hoppers from the Clinton Point quarry near Poughkeepsie. The next morning, Norfolk Tug’s George Holland, who sometimes substitutes for B12, was running with the Buchanan boat’s usual charges,…
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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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