Tag: tugs
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Cement from three places
SSI Magnificent, a 580-foot Marshall Islands-flagged bulk ship, came up the North River Wednesday carrying a cargo of cement from Turkey and heading for Catskill, NY after first partially discharging at terminals in Providence and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Cement, the dry primary ingredient in concrete which is typically mixed closer to where it will…
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Business trip
Donjon Marine’s low-slung J. Arnold Witte came up the North River on a hazy Wednesday morning last week, passing Edgewater and signaling an AIS destination of Erie, PA. This is not a common destination for commercial vessels heading up the Hudson, but J. Arnold was built at Donjon’s affiliated shipyard there in 2021 and travelled…
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Picking up
Miss Ila, a 1962-vintage 2,400 HP tug belonging to Sterling Equipment Company of Quincy, Mass and Staten Island and not seen before by me, came up the North River on July 30 with a deck barge. Photos of her return voyage taken the next day by Hudson River photographer Glenn Raymo suggest she picked up…
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Moving cement
A lot of cement was moving down the North River last week from the Amrize plant (formerly Lafarge) in the Town of Coeymans near Ravenna, some of it heading for out-of-town terminals. Dann Marine tug Sapphire Coast made two runs at least and we saw Pearl Coast as well. As of Monday morning, Sapphire appears…
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Back for more?
Thomas Dann came up the North River Friday afternoon, returning from Rhode Island with the wide deck barge CBC Savannah. Thomas was heading for Albany, perhaps to load the barge with more wind turbine parts similar to what this pair brought down river earlier this week.
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Pier Pressure
Stasinos tug Toula C, last seen two weeks ago delivering a barge to the 69th Street Transfer Bridge restoration project, was back on the North River Thursday, maneuvering barges with Patricia Jean at Pier 94. Workers were putting the final touches on the facade of the rebuilt pier which was once part of the ship…
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Heading for harbor
Miriam Moran passed Pier A and Wagner Park and exited the North River Wednesday evening after assisting the Bermuda-bound cruise ship Insignia leaving the dock at Pier 90 at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal. Pier A, built on masonry footings rather than wood pilings, dates back to the 1880s and is the oldest remaining pier on…
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Working Westchester
Waterfronts in Westchester were working Wednesday. A pair of Moran tugs returned to the harbor in the morning after assisting a bulk ship loaded with Spanish gypsum docking at the wallboard plant in Buchanan, NY. In the first photo, Topaz Coast is also visible with a dry bulk barge, holding position off Edgewater and waiting…
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Entering canal service
The brand new New York State Canal Corp tug Thomas X Grasso arrived on the North River last week from her birthplace at Blount Boatworks in Rhode Island. According to Tugster’s Will Van Dorp, this is the first new build tug to enter service on the canals since the 1930s. Thomas wears New York State’s…
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Coming and going
Activity continues in stops and starts at the 69th Street Transfer Bridge restoration project. On Monday, Jessica Francis, a small 25-foot tug came down from Verplanck to remove a small spud barge. Three days later, the much bigger Toula C arrived with the Hughes 280 barge loaded with a crane and other equipment. The construction…
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A little more sugar
Dann Marine’s Topaz Coast had the dry bulk barge Montville on the wire heading for sea Tuesday evening after discharging sugar at the Yonkers refinery. This cargo appears to have come up from the Gulf coast rather than Florida and the tow was heading back there now. Dann Ocean’s Captain Dann ran light up to…
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Special delivery
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland came down the North River Monday morning with da cargo of crushed stone from the Clinton Point quarry near Poughkeepsie loaded on one of the company’s barges. Daily stone shipments from Clinton Point are usually brought by Buchanan Marine to moorings off Jersey City, but George brought this shipment straight through…
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Spreading the work
Work on the Gateway project coffer dam off Pier 66 gets spread out across a range of local towing companies. On Monday evening, Carver’s Erin Elizabeth was on site making up to a barge. The next morning, one of project manager Weeks Marine’s own tugs was there along with Henry Marine’s Henry Girls. In the…
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