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Just four cargo ships docked at the Island in the past week.

Oil products from the Shell tanker Euplecta were discharged at Ireland Island and St. George's on Thursday and Friday.

The MV Oleander , which does the weekly run from Port Elizabeth in New Jersey to Bermuda, brought in 165 containers when she docked at Hamilton on Sunday.

She was carrying 29 reefer containers, 10 mafis and two cars among the cargo.

The Somers Isles , from Florida, unloaded 87 containers in Hamilton on Tuesday, including 11 with refrigerated stock.

And the Bermuda Islander , which pulled into Hamilton on Monday, unloaded 99 dry and 16 reefer containers.

Shipping agents John S. Darrell will oversee the arrival of two more cargo ships this week.

The Cembalo cement ship arrives at Dockyard from Venezuela later today, carrying 3,700 tonnes of cement.

And the MV Bijin , with 144 cars on board, is expected to dock at Hamilton early on Sunday.

The cars and 29 cases of parts arrive in the Island from Haiti.

Two tall ships visited Bermuda this week.

The Pride of Baltimore II , a replica 19th Century schooner, docked at St.

George's and Hamilton as it set out on a year-long tour to the Far East.

And the 35-crew Picton Castle , a three-masted tall ship from Halifax, Nova Scotia, set sail for Aruba in the Caribbean on Monday.

She had been in St. George's for just less than a week.