New York-based Bouchard Transportation Company says it has secured financing to start paying its tug and barge crews, including back pay. “Over the weekend Bouchard was able to close on financing to start paying back vessel wages and meet other outstanding indebtedness, necessary to meet all our...
The U.S. Coast Guard is moving to take enforcement action against New York-based Bouchard Transportation Company after the company failed to comply with a recent captain of the port order related to the safety of one of its vessels anchored in Port Arthur, Texas. The Coast Guard says the tugs Kim...
By Captain William Doherty – The recent tragic chain of events regarding the financial irresponsibility of the owners of one the largest U.S. coastwise petroleum carriers, Bouchard Transportation Co., and in particular its owner Morton Bouchard III, whereby numerous actions have been forced upon...
Trouble has snowballed in recent weeks for financially distressed Bouchard Transportation Co. Inc., one of the nation’s largest oceangoing tug and barge companies.
Port captains in four U.S. Coast Guard sectors — New York, New Orleans, and Port Arthur and Corpus Christi, Texas — have issued orders demanding that Melville, N.Y.-based Bouchard take action to secure the safety of several articulated tug-barge units that had been lying idle in local anchorages for many weeks, with unpaid crews...
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By Salvatore R. Mercogliano, Ph.D. On July 7, 1895, the barque Arago arrived in San Francisco with four of its crewmembers in irons. The deckhands had jumped ship while in Portland, Oregon prior to the ship embarking on a cruise down to Chile. The master of the vessel signed out warrants for...
The U.S. Coast Guard Captain of the Port of New York and New Jersey has issued an order to New York-based Bouchard Transportation Company requiring that three tug and fuel barge units currently anchored in New York Harbor immediately be moved out of anchorage and moored at a safe berth. The...
Vessels belonging to New York-based Bouchard Transportation have ground to a halt in the Port of New York and New Jersey after a Captain of the Port order related to unsafe operational conditions. The orders were issued to Bouchard vessels last Wednesday, January 29 by U.S. Coast Guard Commander...
A whistleblower investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has found that Bouchard Transportation Co. Inc., Melville, N.Y., and its officers violated the whistleblower protection provisions of the Seaman’s Protection Act (SPA) when it retaliated against a seaman who cooperated with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG).
OSHA’s Whistleblower Protection Program investigators concluded that the company’s actions constituted retaliation against the...
A 2017 barge explosion that killed two crewmen near Port Aransas, Texas, was caused by inadequate maintenance and safety management by operator Bouchard Transportation, compounded by ineffective inspections and surveys by the Coast Guard and American Bureau of Shipping, the National Transportation Safety Board reported Thursday.
Tankermen Zachariah Jackson, 28, of Salt Lake City, and D’jour Vanterpool, 26, of Houston died Oct. 20, 2017 as they prepared to raise anchor on the ATB barge Bouchard...