MOPS 2020 Photo Contest Submissions

Thank you for participating in the MOPS 2020 Photo Contest! We thoroughly enjoyed seeing all of your photos and we hope you’ll keep capturing amazing and unique moments at sea to share in our 2021 MOPS Photo Contest.

From all of us at MOPS, smooth sailing in 2020!

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Ship backing into Port Arthur berth with tug assist

Molasses tanker maneuvering into the sugar dock at the Port of Palm Beach.

M/V Edwin H. Gott downbound the St. Mary’s River crossing Mud Lake at sunrise

Port of Palm Beach on an inbound ship

Miami Pilot boat leaving Symphony of the Seas, Pilot waving

Disney Magic departing Pier 88 NYC, Circle Line sightseeing in background, NY Waterways ferries in foreground

Disney Magic approaching inbound Norwegian Encore on the North River NYC in the Background

Norwegian Encore makes its first visit to the USA. Arriving at Pier 88 for its inaugural visit. Circle Line Bronx salutes.

Whites Ferry Gen. Jubal A Early approaches Whites Ferry Mayland

Buchanan 12 pushing 6 loaded Trap Rock barges off Piermont NY in the North River

Turecamo Girls heads north in the North River off Hastings, NY

Looking back on the MAKO 3 heading south on the North River, Light tug

The short and tall meet off of 79th street North River, Shannon Dan and Chesapeake Coast

"Federal Weser" departs Superior, WI on an early spring day

"Floragraght" inbound Manistee, MI; first oceangoing dry cargo vessel to visit since 1972

Caroline Islands - Most remote part of the Earth

USNS Bowditch Inbound Guam, Micronesia

ATB Millville outbound Sabine Neches River

Corpus Christi tugs working a ship off from Port Ingleside

Corpus Texas Chicken meeting September 2019

Corpus Tractor tugs sailing the VLCC from Port Ingleside, TX

Harbor tugs sailing an LNG ship from Sabine Pass

Harbor tugs sailng a VLCC from Port Ingleside, TX in light fog

Tractor tugs working the stern of an inbound LNG Tanker in Corpus Christi Channel

Tractor tugs assisting an outbound LNG Tanker in Corpus Christi Channel

Mississippi River August sunset from inbound ATB Heath Wood

Gulf of Mexico Aransas Pass Anchorage sunrise with tankers awaiting inbound transit

Corpus Christi tractor tugs dock a VLCC at Port Ingleside, TX

Gulf sunrise

Outbound square rigger and commercial traffic Mississippi River

Clouds descending from the sky to “kiss” a fog bank on a Lake Huron Spring day

Great Lakes “Springtime” Navigation on the Upper St. Mary’s River

Lots of room to maneuver in South Chicago’s Calumet River!

Sunset in the Straits of Mackinac while approaching the “Mighty Mac” Bridge

Bering Sea under the Delair Bridge

Teresa McAllister against the Philadelphia skyline

"Pride of Baltimore II" riding the wave to Bermuda

"Pride II" comes home

Taken onboard commuter boat M/V Rookie in Boston Harbor - USS Constitution underway for its 222nd birthday

Upper New York Bay Independence Day Preparation

Statue Of Liberty and Fire Boat Display

Brooklyn Sunrise

Dusk at Gravesend Bay

West-Bound East River

Coney Island Channel at Dawn

Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge with Squall Approaching

Harbor Charlie in Lower New York Bay

Tug Cornell Breaking Ice, Brooklyn Navy Yard

Ferry East-Bound East River

One Whistle, Mobile Alabama

Sunset at Chipco, Mobile AL

Outbound Tanker at Sand Island Light, Mobile AL

Inbound Tanker Mobile River

Outbound tanker Mobile River

Early morning tanker, Mobile River

Sunrise at the State Docks Mobile AL

Saga Falcon Sunrise Mobile AL

Sunset Bulker Mobile AL

Outbound Middle Bay Light

NYK Orion approaching Dame Point Bridge

NYK Orion - Low Overhead

El Coqui in the St Johns River

YM Modesty - Anything But

YM Modesty meeting Carnival Fascination in the St Johns River

YM Modesty inbound while Zim Antwerp Docks

Stern YM Modesty, Dame Point Bridge - Boxes & Bridges, a maritime tradition

Crowley El Coqui passes El Faro Memorial - We will never forget

Inbound Molasses tanker Palm Beach Inlet

Getting on the wire in Bay Ridge anchorage, bound for sea

The wind picks up as a rain squall approaches for an inbound Molasses Tanker on a stormy day

Shifting Tropical Shipping’s two new Jumbo Class Container ships at the Port of Palm Beach

Molasses tanker maneuvering into the sugar dock at the Port of Palm Beach

Palm Beach Pilot heading out at sunrise for the Tropic Sun

The Mini-tug “Mary M” assists docking the Haitian Ro-Ro freighter “Monarch Countess” to the ramp at the Port of Palm Beach

730 foot container barge running from Philadelphia to San Juan Puerto Rico in rough weather

Pilot view at sunset from American Queen on Lower Mississippi River

Containership rounding Bergen point bound for Port Elizabeth, NJ

Inbound container ship Port Of Palm Beach

Kirby’s CAPE LOOKOUT atb with barge DBL 102 outbound IMTT Bayonne in the Kill Van Kull NYC

NYC with Tugs anchored in Bayridge

Oakland, CA

Martinez, CA

SS Maui

San Francisco, CA - USCG, Blue Angels and Coit Tower, Fleet Week

USS Hornet Museum, Alameda, CA

Richmond Long Wharf, Richmond, CA

ATB Nancy Peterkin, Martinez, CA

Richmond, CA

Dueling Escorts, Rodeo, CA

Traffic jam sixty mile pt Mississippi River

The Crowley ATB Vision, shot by Capt. Evan Williams, of Red and White Fleet, on a morning, San Francisco Bay Cruise

Tugs assisting transport ship through the Miami River

"Arubaborg" negotiates the narrow waterway of the Fox River in Green Bay, WI

Busy Mississippi River Anchorage

Four tug escort for outbound LNG tanker, Corpus Christi Channel

Spectacular sunset on the Mississippi River from inbound ATB Heath Wood

Phoenix rising Galveston Anchorage

Rescue boat drill Mississippi River

Frozen Spirit

1000' Maersk ship inbound for Port Elizabeth, taken from the Bayonne Bridge

MOPS 2020 Photo Contest Submissions

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