Tag: tugs
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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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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.
