Since we didn’t get scones to go with that tea, the amount will be greatly reduced!
Where did you get THAT from???
Since when is the Cross Harbor “struggling”…
(I just LOVE it when a know it all has to say stuff that Isn’t necessarily true.)
Maybe they need a lawyer to help them with this bit of libelous garbage…
GABE!!
LC
Nice one, Mookie !
My half English humor…
Well they have been fighting with the city on a number of inane lawsuits
My question is why are whole cocoa beans being transported across the river? (No! Not to get to the other side you smart a$$e$!)
I would have expected them to be processed into powder long before arrival in NY. And, where did said beans get on board this freight car?
Is Juan Valdez on this Forum???
I based my “struggling” comment on the TRAINS article of about 14 months ago, and I am sorry if it offeneded you. Lawsuits, a competitive situation with CSX obviously preferring to route traffic via Selkird Yard, and a tough physical environment. I think they are doing a good job of surviving.
The Cross Harbor runs between Greenville yards in New Jersey (near exit 14B on the NJTPK) and 65th st “intermodal terminal” next to the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Bay Ridge. It is the last active carfloat in the NYC area and despite some limitations provides a very (IMHO) necessary service. The talk of a cross harbor tunnel has been around forever (although I think the idea has received some $ recently) and would benefit the metro area with reduced truck trips to the railheads in NJ.
Within the past year or so, chocolate has become the new “in thing” to get all detail-oriented and upwardly mobile about. There are any number of boutique chocolatiers and boutique chocolate, well, boutiques. Especially in the environs of a city like New York.
So, it’s my guess that the beans were destined for some small producer or chocolate shop, where they were going to be custom roasted, and used to produce VERY expensive chocolate. Similar to what was being done with coffee before Starbucks took over the universe. For an example of the type of product you wind up with, and the cost see: http://www.samcooks.com/flavor/boutique_chocolates.htm
Most of the fancy chocolate makers don’t produce their own chocolate from the bean, they’ll buy it from producers like El Rey in Venezuela http://www.chocolates-elrey.com/
-Ed
Hey the East River has been cleaned up a little(or it was), it’s not that badly polluted(compared to say the old Soviet Union or that river in China were they spilled the benzine)
I hope Cross Harbor has good insurance for the cargo claim.
By the way did anyone investigate cocoa futures on the markets?
On the serious side,
- I would hope noone was hurt(no mention in the article)
2.This is a fairly major shipment for cross harbor and a loss like this is not good. I would suspect that the reason Cross Harbor Management wasn’t able to return the phone call to the NY Times was that they were busy dealing with the sinking itself and there customer.
Cross Harbor does not have a lot of people working there.(under 20 I would think,most of those are operating people, and probably closer to 3-8)
Narig01
At least the East River didn’t burn…like the Cuyahoga did in 1970 
From what I’ve heard about the East River, the RR better retrieve their barge and the cars quickly, before the water dissolves the steel.
Contrary to poluar belief most choaclate goes to making choclait milk which uses a low grade choclaite some times choclait is used to cover up low grade milk and then given in school lunch programs…All those kids in the Brooklyn school systems being poised by low grade bloody milk being covered up by choclate