Morton S. Bouchard III pulls no punches discussing the maritime business and the spate of over-regulation infecting U.S. industry.
Capt. Russell G. McVay has been appointed vice president of operations for Moran Towing & Transportation Co., Inc. to succeed Capt. Leonard G. Goodwin, it was announced by Thomas E. Moran, president. Captain Goodwin, an internationally respected authority on ocean towing and a Moran employee for
fills an enormous training hole in the tri-state area. When Morton S. Bouchard, III, maritime and political dignitaries officially opened the Bouchard Transportation Co., Inc. Tug & Barge Simulation Center on the campus of the State University of New York (SUNY) Maritime College last October, it opened a new
, we tend to stay employed.” Safety also drives success. From Crowley’s “safety card” authorizing workers to stop unsafe activity to Bouchard Transportation Co., Inc.’s unyielding focus on zero incidents, to Hornblower Cruises & Events integrated management system that emphasizes safety, this bottom-line
In 2018 one of the U.S. premier vessel owners – Bouchard Transportation Co., Inc. (BTC) – celebrates its 100th year in business. Maritime Reporter looks at BTC’s evolution through the years. The year 2018 is a celebration year for the Bouchard Transportation Co., Inc., which was founded in 1918 in New
aid in financing the construction of three 50,884-deadweightton oil product carriers. The companies are s u b s i d i a r i e s of the American Transportation Co. Inc., New York. National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, Calif., is the proposed builder of the three 658- foot-long, 106-foot-wide
was marine manager and district sales manager for the New York area. His extensive marine background also included 17 years with Red Star Towing & Transportation Co., Inc. of New York, where he advanced from dispatcher to executive vice president
William P. Muller has been appointed assistant vice president of operations of Moran Towing & Transportation Co., Inc., according to Thomas E. Moran, chairman and chief executive officer of the company. Mr. Muller, who will be based in company headquarters in Greenwich, Conn., is a graduate of
Russell G. McVay, vice president of Moran Towing and Transportation Co., Inc., has appointed Kenneth S. Johnson as chief harbor dispatcher for the Port of New York and New Jersey. Mr. Johnson is a veteran of 40 years' experience, ashore and afloat, in the tugboat industry in New York Harbor. He
Capt. Russell George McVay has been appointed manager of harbor operations of the Moran Towing & Transportation Co., Inc., it was announced by Thomas E. Moran, president of the company. Captain McVay was appointed manager of the Seaboard Shipping Company, a Moran oil barge transportation subsidiary
, executive vice president, Sea- Land Service, Inc., Edison, N.J.; Craig Stevenson, chairman of the board and chief executive, Sabine Towing & Transportation Co., Inc., Groves, Texas; John F. Sullivan Jr., president and chief executive officer, Bath Iron Works Corporation, Bath, Maine; Donald M
Trinity Industries, Inc., a subsidiary of Gretna Machine & Iron Works, Inc., Harvey, La., was recently awarded contracts from Bouchard Transportation Co., Inc., Hicksville, N.Y., to build two, 467-foot, ocean-going barges with double hulls to meet the OPA 90 requirements. Each barge will be
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the vi- ACP writes that when Atlantic projects are built “the opti- mal wind turbine generator (WTG) height would exceed ability of the Marine Transportation System (MTS), and this restriction” and that “a condition restricting height to the USCG is closely tracking issues of competing ocean uses
of ploited. The International Ship and Port Facility Security the most vulnerable areas is the security around our mari- (ISPS) Code and the Maritime Transportation Security time operations. The Biden-Harris Administration’s recent Act (MTSA) of 2002 exemplify this lag, as they were con- Executive Order to
seven, but it really takes now to make sure that folks understand that tug and barge a united industry, and so I just really appreciate the great transportation is the most sustainable mode of freight work of AWO members, of coalition partners, shippers, transportation? How can we make sure that our ports
modalities that have been approved. We are the challenges involved as well as forthright in describing all strongly supporting the Department of Transportation’s de- the bene? ts so that folks know that the industry is out there cision to allow oral ? uid testing as a drug testing alterna- and can make