Tag: tugs
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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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Cement mixer
Dann Marine’s Coral Coast came down the North River last Monday, passing Hoboken with a loaded cement transporter barge. Cement manufactured at the Ravenna, NY plant is brought south by barge to terminals in NY Harbor and sometimes continues up the Sound to distribution hubs in New England. The day this photo was taken marked…
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Adding salt
CMT’s Erin Elizabeth came up the North River Tuesday, heading for Coeymans with what I believe was probably a cargo of Egyptian salt lightered off a bulk ship in the Upper Bay. They passed the Reinauer Twins/RTC 104 ATB at anchor off North Bergen, NJ. As of Saturday morning, Erin is back in NY Harbor…
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Project work
Stasinos tug Charles James ran light up the North River Wednesday morning heading for Haverstraw Bay. The tug spent some time at the spot where the Champlain Hudson Power Express cable will re-enter the Hudson off Congers after running on shore through Rockland County so perhaps Charles’s voyage related to that project. CHPE has been…
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Working on the dam
Maddie K., a 47-year old, 2,000 HP tug operated by New York State Marine Highway Transportation, was on the North River Thursday, maneuvering barges at the Gateway Tunnel project’s large coffer dam off Pier 66. Work is underway here to reinforce the riverbed in preparation for digging the new rail tunnel below. The dam currently…
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