Tag: tugs
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Velkomst
Norwegian tall ship Sorlandet arrived at North River Pier 86 on Thursday morning. Margaret Moran was on hand to assist, but with the river ebbing and ice having mostly cleared out, the 98-year-old sailing vessel was able to sidle up to the pier with no help, leaving Margret standing by to retrieve the docking pilot.…
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Between snow falls
The sun came out Tuesday, finding a gap between Monday’s blizzard and Wednesday’s aftershock dusting of snow. Sound Marine’s 680 HP tug Matthew G took advantage of the window to bring a crane barge down the North River loaded with what looked like fendering for piles. They were heading for the Seastreak dock in Highlands,…
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Back to work!
Thomas Dann and the deck barge CBC Savannah came down the North River on a slow bell Saturday, running on their regular route ferrying offshore wind components for the Sunrise Wind project assembled at the Port of Coeymans to their staging area in Rhode Island. Work on the project has resumed after a February 2…
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Pushing paper
The city sanitation department has been prioritizing snow removal and garbage collection but on Thursday DSNY was catching up on recycling, with a line of trucks waiting to discharge paper at the Pier 99 transfer station. Workers winched a loaded scow out of the shed, covering the bags of waste paper with netting as the…
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Keeping the steam up
The Liz Vinik, a 3,000 HP Vinik Marine tug built in 1962 for Esso, was brought in to break up the ice around Con Ed’s North River Pier 98 fuel dock on Monday. Deckhands tied the tug’s bow up to the pier and the tug pivoted back and forth, churning up the ice with her…
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Interstate commerce
Returning to New York City from warmer climes finds the harbor beset by the heaviest icing conditions seen in decades and new ways of operating on the North River already becoming routine. NY Waterway has contracted with Stasinos Marine to help keep their trans-Hudson routes operating and Sunday morning finds the 71-year-old tug Joanne Marie,…
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Building supply
Haugland Group tug Lily Anne came down the North River early Saturday just ahead of the first round of weekend snow. Lily was bringing what looked like several loaded stone hoppers down from Haugland’s Tompkins Cove materials facility on Haverstraw Bay to the area of the aggregate pier on the end of 25th Street in…
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Working the dam
Brinn Courtney, a Stasinos 1,800 HP tug built in 1966, was on the North River this past week maneuvering barges at the Gateway Tunnel cofferdam off Pier 66, more formally known as the Hudson River Ground Stabilization Project. The floor of the river is being reinforced with concrete slurry at this point so that tunnel…
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Up with the sun
Reinauer’s Kristy Ann ATB, an 8-year old 4,400 HP tug paired with the 86,000 barrel 347-foot RTC 80 barge, was northbound on the North River Sunday morning, passing the Lincoln Tunnel vents with a New York Harbor products cargo bound for Albany. After anchoring overnight off Hyde Park, the unit continued on her way at…
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Pushing rock
New York State Marine Highway’s 1977 vintage 1,200 HP tug Nathan G brought a set of hoppers loaded with stone down the North River on Saturday, passing the Bull Ferry condos in Guttenberg NJ. They were headed for the Bay Ridge flats where hoppers can be left at moorings and interchanged for onward delivery. As…
