GONZALES — Marquette Transportation's president and other company officials on Saturday placed blame for the Sunshine Bridge crash squarely on the tugboat captain and pilot, saying they failed to ...

U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Chad Rollins, a machinery technician at Station Sabine, was honored this week with the Meritorious Service Medal for rescuing the tugboat captain and deckhand in March.

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The captain of the tugboat pulling the SS United States to Mobile encountered strong winds and high waves off the coast of Virginia Beach. Captain Mike Vinik is commanding the ...

A captain who admitted to slamming a tugboat into Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef while playing video games in 2009, causing the vessel to leak fuel, was sentenced to home confinement and probation ...

A tugboat captain involved in an oil spill off the Marin County coast is liable for the government’s $14 million cleanup, a federal judge ruled. The boat operator, Christian Lint, died from other ...

A tugboat captain's error caused an articulated tug and barge (ATB) to strike and damage the fending system protecting the Hylebos Bridge in Tacoma, Wash., last ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A man drifting down the Columbia River in a makeshift raft was rescued by tugboat crews just minutes before he would have been swept into the Bonneville Dam, the boat’s captain ...

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This article appears in the April 2022 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Jason Woods, a longtime tugboat worker and the president of International Longshore and Warehouse Union ...