Lake Champlain Transportation Company

Lake Champlain Transportation Company
Company typePrivate Company
IndustryTransportation
Founded1826; 198 years ago (1826);[1] incorporated 1976; 48 years ago (1976)[2]
HeadquartersBurlington, Vermont, United States
Key people
Raymond Pecor III, President[3]
ProductsFerry service, Sightseeing cruises
Websiteferries.com
An LCTC ferry on the Burlington-Port Kent route

The Lake Champlain Transportation Company (LCTC or LCT) is a vehicle ferry operator that runs three routes across Lake Champlain between the US states of New York and Vermont. From 1976 to 2003, the company was owned by Burlington, Vermont, businessman Raymond C. Pecor Jr.,[4] who is chairman of its board.[5][6] In 2003, he sold the company to his son, Raymond Pecor III.[7]

Lake Champlain is the thirteenth-largest lake in the United States, reaching a maximum width of 12 miles (19 km) and depths of more than 300 feet (91 m). As such, there is no bridging of the "broad lake" north of Crown Point, New York, and south of the Rouses Point–Alburgh–Swanton crossing near the Canada–United States border, though bridging of the lake near Plattsburgh has been proposed.[8] Approximately one million passengers cross the lake by ferry each year.

  1. ^ Two Centuries of Tradition Archived 2010-09-20 at the Wayback Machine, LCT website.
  2. ^ Corporation Information, Vermont Secretary of State Archived 2011-08-13 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ^ "Lake Champlain Transpiration Company". Vermont Secretary of State, Corporations Division. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
  4. ^ "University of Vermont Honorary Degree Recipients: Raymond C. Pecor Jr". The University of Vermont. Archived from the original on October 12, 2012. Retrieved November 13, 2010.
  5. ^ "Raymond Pecor: Executive Profile & Biography". Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on October 7, 2012.
  6. ^ "Raymond C. Pecor Profile". Forbes.com. Archived from the original on January 26, 2012.
  7. ^ New ferry named for Shelburne resident Archived 2011-07-16 at archive.today, Shelburne News, Tue, Nov 9th 2010.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference LoTemplio was invoked but never defined (see the help page).