New York's Poling company reborn with new owners and new equipment

摘要

She is a small but noteworthy tug playing a big role for a company with a name long connected with New York Harbor. The 70-foot, 1,500-hp twin-screw tug Crystal Cutler has been pushing and occasionally towing a 15,000-barrel clean oil barge since the tug was introduced in 2010. The tug places a high demand on her captains and crews as she ventures into shallow rivers and estuaries, moving about in a highly dynamic harbor with loads of gasoline, fuel additives or heating oil for small oil terminals. The conventionally powered tug is operated by Poling & Cutler Marine Transportation, a modern, indirect descendant of the former Poling Transportation Company which, for decades, conducted similar transportation work around New York Harbor and the Northeast. The company, based today in New Jersey, has also introduced several new barges recently and chartered in a good-sized tug from Florida to handle the biggest one.