Tag: tugs
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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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Commuting
Janet D, a 1320 HP tug belonging to Construction and Marine Equipment of Elizabeth, has been making trips up to the Yonkers sugar plant from her base on the Arthur Kill with a deck barge, presumably for some work happening up there.
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Arriving from down south
Thomas Dann arrived on the North River from offshore on Saturday with the deck barge CBC Savanah on the wire. Thomas had come up the coast from Charleston and was heading for the Port of Coeymans, perhaps to pick up some project cargo there.
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See a tug, think ship
Moran tugs running light up the North River usually singnal there is some action coming at the wallboard plant in Buchanan NY. Sure enough, a few hours after Mary Turecamo passed by Sunday, the 656-foot bulk ship Eastern Venture came through, Buchanan-bound with a cargo of Spanish gypsum, the principal raw material in wallboard. The…
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Unusual tow
Stasinos tug John Joseph had an interesting tow as they visited the mouth of the North River Wednesday. They were bringing the 87-foot Coast Guard cutter Finback down to Baltimore from points north and made a loop as far up as Pier 25 after coming down the Sound, through the Gate, and around the Battery…
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