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Cruisers, container ships swarm local ports

The Oleander was carrying 205 containers that included 50 refrigerated, when it arrived in Bermuda from Port Elizabeth, New Jersey on Sunday.

Its cargo also contained six trailers, three boats on a trailer, one asphalt roller, one utility trailer, one mini excavator, one Skid steer loader and one office trailer.

It sailed from the Island at around 8 a.m. yesterday.

Tomorrow, cargo vessel Bermuda Islanderis scheduled to pull in at around 8 a.m. with 155 containers, of which, 28 are refrigerated.

In addition, its payload will contain one 45-foot flat bed and one boat.

Cruise ships Azamara Journey and the Empress of The Seasdisembarked in Hamilton yesterday at around 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. respectively.

They are both due to depart Bermuda tomorrow.

Explorer of The Seas was due to arrive in Dockyard yesterday at 8 a.m. and the Norwegian Majesty and Norwegian Crown also paid a visit — to St. George's yesterday morning — and will leave on Friday.

Pleasure boat Norwegian Dawn is to sail into the Island tomorrow morning before heading out at around 6 p.m.

Information regarding the ships' passenger and crew figures was not available from the shipping agencies.

On its voyage from Batumi, Georgia to Corpus Christi, US, the tanker M/T Samothraki advised Bermuda Radio, through its agent that it was diverting to Bermuda to disembark an ill crew-member.

At 9.10 p.m. last Wednesday, the pilot vessel St.. David, rendezvoused with the boiler and after landing at Ordnance Island, St. George's, an awaiting ambulance transferred the patient to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.