Tag: tugs
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Get ready for the fleet
Stasinos tug Charles James came up the North River against a ripping ebb near the Gateway coffer dam worksite on Tuesday morning. Charles was heading for the cruise terminal where work is underway ahead of the arrival of Fleet Week ships Wednesday. After a few hours, Charles headed back to the harbor.
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More cement
Spring is a busy time in the cement transportation business. On Tuesday, Coral Coast was back on the North River, moving a cargo of cement manufactured in Ravenna NY to a distribution terminal on Flushing Bay in Queens. By Thursday morning, Coral was already back in Ravenna, picking up a new cargo.
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Along for the ride
Stasinos tug Charles James came up the North River early Tuesday with a CMT hopper barge and the CMT tug Helen, I think not under power, lashed alongside the tow. I believe they were heading back to the Port of Coeymans.
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Business trip
Mary Turecamo passed down the North River in Sunday afternoon rain, running light on her way back to the harbor. Mary was coming from assist work up north, helping the bulk ship Amis Wisdom VI which had called on Port of Coeymans last week navigate from Catskill NY to Hyde Park. See Glenn Raymo post…
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Cleanup
DonJon tug Paul Andrew, with nameboards removed, ferried a scow loaded with debris cleared from the area around the 30th Street Heliport to a pier in Port Newark on Tuesday, part of the ongoing Gateway Project work.
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Fuel goes up, cement comes down
Cement passed fuel on the North River early Monday. Coral Coast had a cement transporter barge carrying product from the Ravenna, NY plant to a distribution terminal on College Point on Flushing Bay. Coral passed the B. Franklin Reinauer RTC 81 ATB loaded with an oil product cargo and heading for Albany (or perhaps Newburgh)…
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Standing by
DonJon tugs were standing by at the DSNY’s Pier 99 transfer station on Friday evening. In addition to the company’s regular working moving waste paper scows from here to the paper mill on the Arthur Kill, the company was also busy maneuvering barges at a worksite removing debris from the 30th Street Heliport as part…
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Coast to Coast
Ruby Coast ran light up the North River on Friday afternoon, returning from servicing on the KvK to rejoin a sugar barge left docked in Yonkers. Sapphire Coast followed a bit later to help sail the barge off the dock at the plant and then returned light to the harbor, passing Lackawanna terminal on the…
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Getting salty
A lot of salt has been moving up the North River this month, headed for the Port of Coeymans to restore municipal supplies depleted during the harsh winter. Some has come on bulk ships heading upriver, and some has come by barge, lightered off a series of bulk ships that have arrived from Egypt and…
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Captain D lends a hand
Captain D, a 2,400 HP Norfolk Towing tug which I don’t think we’ve seen before on the North River, came by Wednesday morning running light returning from a trip up to the Yonkers sugar refinery. I believe they were helping a barge dock at the plant. The barge had likely been waiting at anchor for…
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Last call for salt
On Friday, Carver’s Mackenzie Rose passed up the North River headed for Port of Coeymans. In tow were two hoppers loaded with what I think was probably salt lightered off a bulk ship that was in the Upper Bay and had arrived from Egypt. A bit later, the 650-foot bulk ship Port Nagasaki came by,…
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Paying the tariff
Balsa 91, a compact 350-foot Panama-flagged bulk ship, arrived on the North River Wednesday with a cargo of raw sugar from Dominican Republic heading for the refinery in Yonkers. With the bulker having left DR after April 5, this may be the first or one of the first foreign cargos to arrive on the river…
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