Tag: tugs
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Pushing and pulling
Dann Marine’s Chesapeake Coast came up the North River with the Chesapeake barge loaded on Wednesday and anchored north of the bridge. Friday afternoon, the crew configured for towing astern and headed for the Narrows and out of town, heading south. By Saturday morning they are clearing Cape May.
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Private ports
Haugland Group towboat Miss Madeline was northbound on the North River Wednesday with a pair of hopper barges. A black cargo was visible in one, perhaps asphalt millings. Madeline was heading for Haugland’s small port facility in Tompkins Cove in Rockalnd County. By the early hours of Thursday, she was back in New York Harbor…
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At the coffer dam
Weeks Marine’s tug Robert was maneuvering barges at the Gateway Tunnel coffer dam site off Pier 66 on Monday. The project is reinforcing the riverbed at this spot so that the Gateway rail tunnel will be able to pass underneath.
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Below the cliffs, amidst the ice
The Vane Brothers tug Philadelphia and barge DS 601 have spent the past few days anchored amid the ice flows on the North River. In the photo, they are sitting below the cliffs of the Bergen Hill in North Bergen on Wednesday.
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Moving through ice
NY State Marine Highway’s Nathan G moved up the North River through ice flows with a hopper barge Wednesday. This week has seen the most significant ice accumulation on the lower Hudson in years.
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Working weekend
A new floating drydock constructed at the Feeney Shipyard in Kingston NY was brought down the North River Saturday evening by Stasinos Marine and delivered to its owners, Hughes Marine, at their base in Erie Basin. According to Hughes, this is possibly the first new drydock installed in Brooklyn in over 100 years. My nighttime…
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Time on the river
Poling-Cutler’s Kristin Poling spent some time this week anchored off West New York with the barge Eva Leigh Cutler. Seen in the photo early Thursday with the Galaxy Apartments of Guttenberg in the background.
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Waiting for paper
Paul Andrew was standing by with a waste paper scow at DSNY’s Pier 99 transfer station on Tuesday morning. Waste paper collected in Manhattan is brought from here to a recycling mill on Staten Island along the Arthur Kill.
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Joined at the hip
Patrice McAllister had RCM 262 on the hip as she left anchorage and headed for the Upper Bay on a sunny Friday morning this week.
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Just stopping by
Among the familiar ATBs and tug/barge pairs getting out of the wind in the North River anchorages was one not seen in a while. Dann’s Calusa coast seems to normally work out of Baltimore but was anchored off Edgewater this week with a tank barge, possibly having ducked in on the way back from a…
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Visitor from New Bedford (Updated)
The tug Sitka, appropriately named for a very cold Wednesday morning, came up the North River just after sunrise. Running light, the out of town visitor was arriving from her home port of New Bedford and signaling Kingston, so probably heading for the Feeney Shipyard there and perhaps collecting a barge being worked on. The…
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