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Find a great diagram here, as well as this quote: “container carrying capacity has increased 1200% since 1968.” This increased size drives developments in escort tugs.
As of 2021, the sixth boro has accommodated vessels no larger than 15,000 teu, like CMA CGM Argentina. These can be called mother ships, since they can call in only a limited number of ports in the US for reasons of draft, air draft, and crane size. Vying for position as the largest, Liebherr appears to have a 25-row crane design, while ZPMC has a 26-row product.
Count them, it looks like Argentina has 20 rows across. Imagine each of these row, each of these containers, as towed by a truck on the highway lane beside you.
YM Wellhead, an odd name in my opinion, is one of 20 W-class 14,000 teu ships. World was the first of this class that I caught.
She departed the sixth boro yesterday, sans the container that crossed the VZ as she made her way out.
Back in spring 2017, Cosco Development was the largest container ship to transit the new locks in Panama. Her capacity is just over 13,000 teu.
At least half dozen Hyundai vessels have called in the sixth boro of late, all around 13000 teu.
I was surprised when the docking pilot boarded up the companionway.
Cosco Shipping Camellia is one of more than half dozen Cosco Shipping “flower-class” vessels to call hewre, all around 13,500 teu.
Orchid is a sister vessel, and in the next day or so, Sakura will arrive.
The most powerful escort tugboats in the sixth boro shrink in size alongside these behemoths.
All photos and interpretation of info, WVD, who wonders what the next milestone of any sort the sixth boro will see.
Enjoy more late afternoon photos here . . . like Alexandra, passing in front of a number of cranes, both on the water, near the water, and atop buildings.
Ava transits the Con Hook Range, with three East River bridges in the background.
Miriam heads in the direction of the Bayonne Bridge, with two Arthur Kill bridge and the Linden refinery in the background.
Janet D with a crane barge passes here in front of a lower Manhattan, and a reprise of those cranes.
Brian Nicholas here brings DS159 eastbound for a refill.
Ellen McAllister weaves between KVK vessels on its way to a job.
Gulf Coast transits the KVK in front of Sailors Snug Harbor, with cranes at Caddells defining points in the western sky.
And to close, it’s Calusa Coast with barge Delaware, recently returned from five or so years in the Great Lakes. Note the Statue, the south end of Ellis Island, and the Jersey City wall of buildings in the distance.
All photos, WVD.
I’m fortunate to live within easy distance of all this activity: Nathan G, Treasure Coast, B. Franklin Reinauer, an ULCV, Doris Moran, and who knows how much is obscured behind these . . . And then there’s the crane atop the building to the left and the gull lower right.
Or here . . . Margaret Moran and a tanker off her stern.
Or here, HMS Justice and Mary H . . . .
Philadelphia outbound with her barge and Ava M. McAllister inbound with an ULCV.
Mister Jim crosses in front of the slower moving Captain D with a Covanta barge. Note the cranes at Caddells, with the diagonal lines off the left from Left Coast Lifter.
Jonathan C Moran, Doris Moran, and Kimberly Turecamo . . . follow a ULCV and
and here head east for the next job.
Tugboats cross.
All photos, WVD.
A big bridge and two large ships, Atlantic Sky , a
CONRO vessel, and
Hyundai Speed, part of the Together class of 13,082 teu vessels out working the oceans since 2012 already.
Can anyone help me understand the yellowish tinge to that plume?
In contrast to a fully loaded Hyundai Speed,the 2012 Al Qibla had some vacancy although she’s capable of 13500 teus.
This is the wall of containers this bridge was raised for.
CMA CGM Mexico, and sister ships of the Argentina class, are the current biggest behemoths of the sixth boro.
YM Width (14000 teu) and
YM Warmth, 13892 teu,
are both CSCB in Taiwan built.
My vantage point, 20 years ago, would have been quite different.
All photos, WVD.
From the east . . . and
from the west . . .
launched in 2010 and carrying up to 8500 teu, and
to the left, launched in 2011 and . . 4520 teu…
they meet near midpoint in the Kill van Kull.
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They seem much closer than they are.
Charles D. is exactly where she needs to be.
Another sail completed from his perspective, the docking pilot returns to the tugboat.
All photos, WVD.
It’s the end of another month, and maybe because everything’s been so bleak of late, let’s just admire and enjoy the complexity of the sixth boro.
Diverse people work here on diverse missions.
Places like NY Harbor School and M.A. S. T. as well as SUNY Maritime College and King’s Point MMA are here.
On foggy days a narrow navigation channel gives the illusion of being as expansive as the ocean.
Keeping it as ideal a place as possible is the mission of many people and much infrastructure, seen and unseen.
Professionals pass through the sixth boro without ever technically entering the space, both a boon and a bane to all involved,
and their safe passage is ensured by the named and the nameless.
Work and recreation can happen in the same space because of
professionalism. If you have a lot of time, you can binge watch these videos by a pro who works the sixth boro and beyond. Now, when I hear his voice on VHF, it’s familiar. There are books as well.
The universal language of gesture is powerdful.
The sixth boro has at least as much specialized equipment as the other five boros combined; another way to put it, the specialized equipment of the sixth boro enable the other boros to perform.
And if the land boros have spirit, don’t imagine the sixth boro lacks anything.
Photos and sentiments, WVD.
Long Island, eastbound, gets overtaken by a small fishing boat.
B. Franklin, light, heads to the Reinauer yard.
Doris Moran, light, heads east.
Ellen McAllister assists a Maersk ship through the channels to her berth.
Helen Laraway heads east to pick up a scow.
HMS Justice pushes HMS 2605 through the KVK.
Charles A. and Matthew Tibbetts follow a ship so that they can assist as needed when called upon.
Ava and Kimberly head out to different assignments.
Brendan Turecamo provides port assist.
Mister Jim follows Seeley.
Gulf Coast has been a Dann Marine vessel since it was launched way back in 1982.
All photos, WVD.
It’s the season.
I wonder if the Kimberly crew has marked other holidays and I missed it. I did catch the red-clad guy almost a year ago.
Mary H and her barge Patriot is likely headed for Newtown Creek. The 1981 build, such a clean looking tug, has been working in the sixth boro for 33 years.
We’ve had a spate of foggy days. Beyond Franklin here, notice the bright lights at Bayonne Shipyard where work proceeds on Mendonca even at night.
The mechanical dredge J. P. Boisseau here gets moved to a new worksite by Sarah Ann, with Brian Nicholas standing by.
A Maersk ship came in recently with a gaggle of assist boats: l to r, Ava, Ellen, and Matthew. Not visible is Charles D. McAllister, and the visible Thomas J. Brown is not assisting.Yes, Matthew Tibbetts is doing a fair amount of ship assist work these days, and why not.
Here are two more photos of Matthew Tibbetts doing ship assist.
Helen Laraway passed through with a load of scrap.
Poling & Cutler’s Crystal and Evelyn pass in opposite directions.
HMS Justice has eluded my eyes for quite a while, but here she is, with the Centerline Logistics feline on the superstructure.
All photos, WVD.
“As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean” is a line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner 220 years ago. This ship might be painted, and the ocean and sky nicely colored, but that ship is certainly not idle.
MOL Glide . . . glided in through the Narrows a few days ago, and has also glided out, heading for Charleston SC. The approach to the sixth boro is not always that pretty.
When Leda Maersk arrived, the sky was overcast and the colors subdued.
Overcast with wispy clouds that allow some reflection from OOCL Berlin.
It was just after 0800, so I’d
call this morning fog.
All photos, WVD.
Here are previous posts in this series. This post is a tribute to the dangerous but vital role pilots play in shipping.
Below, the docking pilot descends onto Marjorie B McAllister.
The transition from the gangway to the jacob’s ladder is tricky.
Here’s a Moran docking pilot, departing the ship after the ship is underway.
This is a small ship, but the distance to the water is still significant.
When assured the adjustment is right,
the docking pilot begins his descent to Jonathan C. Moran.
And finally, see the gangway from this angle . . .
and the pilot about to step across to Ava.
All photos, WVD, who wishes all safety.
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