Tag: tugs
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New kid on the North River
In mid-December, Haugland Group LLC ’s newest tug Lily Anne came up the North River with a pair of hopper barges, passing the Lucy Reinauer at anchor with the 46,000 barrel tank barge RTC 42. Haugland acquired the 1981-vintage 1,800 HP former Weeks Marine tug earlier this year, adding a fourth tug to their fleet…
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Commuting
Carver Companies’ 3,900 HP towboat Erin Elizabeth came down the North River a few days before Christmas bringing a high sided hopper barge from Coeymans down to the harbor. Erin was back up north on Christmas morning but then back in New York Harbor moving barges around by the weekend.
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Working Christmas
The Susan Rose/RCM 252 ATB was on the North River a few days before Christmas, heading for anchorage off Yonkers with the barge looking light after calling at a terminal in Port Morris on the Bronx East River shoreline. Susan was underway on Christmas morning, heading for Providence, RI where she is set to arrive…
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On the Marine Highway
New York State Marine Highway Transportation’s 1978 vintage, 2,000 HP tug Maddie K came down the North River Thursday with several loaded stone hoppers. Maddie was heading for the Bay Ridge Flats, and later travelled up the East River and on to the materials dock just over the Bronx line in Mount Vernon on the…
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Rhode Island bound
Watching Thomas Dann pass down the North River early Saturday bound for Providence I had no idea how much that city and its residents would be on my mind a few hours later. Thomas has been making regular runs for the past few months with the barge CBC Savannah, ferrying parts for an offshore wind…
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Cement Coaster Part 2
Sapphire Coast was northbound on the North River on Tuesday afternoon, heading for Ravenna with a light cement barge. While Dann Marine’s Coral Coast and Treasure Coast have been delivering cement from the Ravenna plant to terminals around New York Harbor this week, as seen in yesterday’s photo of Coral, the more powerful Sapphire with…
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Cement coaster
Coral Coast came up the North River ahead of the weekend with a light cement transporter barge in tow, heading back up to the Amrize cement plant near Ravenna, NY for more of the product after making deliveries at terminals in Bayonne and Queens. A couple of Dann Marine tugs move cement barges regularly down…
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Heading for home
Sound Marine’s 680 HP tug Matthew G came up the North River with a pair of stone hoppers, heading for the Sound Marine base in Nyack this past Sunday. Matthew was coming back from Rhode Island but stopped at Con Agg’s new aggregate facility in Hunts Point on the East River where she may have…
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Back in service
The Jordan Rose/RCM 250 ATB was northbound on the North River with a New York Harbor cargo early Thursday. This is the first time I have seen the unit since a dispute between the owners and management companies knocked the Rose Cay fleet out of action this summer, though Jordan has made at least one…
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Dutch on the North River
HNLMS Den Helder, the Dutch navy’s brand new replenishment ship, arrived in NYC Friday and stayed through the weekend tied up at the south side of North River Pier 88. Den Helder was commissioned in October and is designed to sustain a task force of six vessels at sea with fuel, water, aviation fuel, ammunition…
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At the dam
New York State Marine Highway tug Nathan G, 1977 vintage and 1,200 HP, was working at the Gateway Tunnel cofferdam site off Pier 66 on Thursday. Visible in the background are tank truck trailers on a barge holding cement that will be mixed with river water and mud to reinforce the river bottom at this…
