Tanks in Boxes on Ships
More Gowanus soon, but for now, this follows a post from a few years back called “boxes on ships,” but what begs for attention here is the number of less common containers, these by a company called Agmark. Maersk Vallvik actually has two centers of liquid bulk containers, Agmark toward the stern and Bertschi farther […]
Retro Sixth Boro Ships 2012
The phrase “supply chain issues” appears to have eclipsed “pandemic” in my thoroughly unscientific and entirely anecdotal and mental survey. The PANYNJ website does provide some “facts and figures” you can mine and crunch to compare 2021 container movement here to that in 2012. An easy conclusion is that the container ships are generally larger, […]
Retro Sixth Boro 44 A
Ten years ago, the lower Manhattan skyline looked quite different. A vessel bringing orange juice from the southern hemisphere was also a smaller one; the 1985 Orange Blossom last sailed into Alang six and a half years ago, and if you don’t know what that means, click on the Alang link. As it turns out, […]
Retro Sixth Boro 40 A
Happy August 2021. And “Wow!” That is almost always my reaction when I jump back a decade into the archives. This riveted tug was 83 years old when I took this photo, and I looked at that deep rounded icebreaker hull and imagined it would go on working forever. Now it’s 93 years old, and […]
Orange Sun 2
Quick post today . . . If you ask me what has been the biggest surprise since I moved to NYC, discovered the sixth boro’s delights, and began tracking its flora, fauna, and mechanica, I’d say the the orange juice ships. Orange Sun came off the ways in 2007, and has called in the sixth […]
Random Ships 76
Lest someone think all container ships built these days or calling in the sixth boro are ULCVs, consider YM Evolution. She was launched less than 10 years ago and has a teu capacity less than 5000. The company is based in Taiwan. I’ve seen Ebony Ray before, but this is the first time I post […]
Congestion 5
Sometimes the sixth boro gets crowded, as you can see from these posts. This post tries to show that, but keep in mind that foreshortening makes these vessels seem closer than they are–the two ships below are more than a mile apart. Keep in mind also that a water channel is a dynamic medium, current […]
CB 2019 E
This post, beginning in the hamlet of Jacksonburg NY, overlaps a portion of the canal represented in yesterday’s post. Notice our vessel to the left below; the cattails beside the road to the road are growing in the original canal bed from 1825. Our tender ferries folks back from shore excursions. I believe this is […]
Assists 6
Here goes another 3-fer, three cargo vessels making their way again through the KVK simultaneously. JRT here at dawn assists orange juice carrier Orange Blossom 2 through the ConHook Range. Jonathan C passes in front of them, returning from assisting another vessel now bound for sea. Right behind the juice carrier is a box ship. […]
Orange Sun
Here are previous posts with this vessel, but first, decide what color the metal below is. I’ll come back to this photo. When a tug has a sheet the bow, it means one thing about the vessel involved in the assist. A fleet of fruit juice tankers like this floats the oceans. Maybe someone can comment […]
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