The Island?s ports have been busy this week with seven cruise ships arriving this week or scheduled to arrive today and three cargo ships and a cement ship offloading here.

Carnival?s with 2,265 passengers arrived at King?s Port, Ireland Island from New York at 1 p.m. on Saturday and departed for Newport Rhode Island on Sunday.

The research vessel docked in Penno?s Wharf also on Saturday to conduct research off the Island and is expected to return by this weekend. The cement ship called in at Dockyard at 9 a.m. on Monday to discharge supplies of cement and is will sail today.

Some 1,458 passengers aboard the Zenith arrived from Cape Liberty, New Jersey on Monday morning. After shifting from Hamilton to St. George?s yesterday, it will return to New Jersey today. An unknown number of tourists were aboard the cruise ship Costa Magica when it arrived in Ireland Island on Sunday. It was here for a one-day stop and returned to Fort. Lauderdale on Monday afternoon.

The carship called into #7 dock, in Hamilton yesterday at 10 a.m. from Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, carrying 190 cars and trucks and departed at 2.30 p.m. for Nassau, Bahamas. The Telo is registered in Riga, Latvia.

Four hundred and seventy-nine passengers are crossing the Atlantic Ocean on the Seven Seas Navigator from Madeira to Fort Lauderdale after a quick stop in Hamilton yesterday.

The cruise ship arrives in Dockyard at 8 a.m. today from St. Maarten and leaves today for Cape Liberty.

The from Philadelphia, will call in Thursday in Hamilton at 5 p.m. and leaves on 11.30 a.m. on Friday for Ordnance Island, St. George?s. The from Miami stops into Hamilton at 8 a.m. on Friday and will leave for the Azores.

Tomorrow, the will arrive in Hamilton at 8 a.m. with 164 containers (including 20 refrigerated containers and a 48 foot flatbed trailer with crane parts) and will leave on Friday morning for Salem, New Jersey. The called in Hamilton yesterday morning with 180 containers (including 8 refrigerated containers) and will return to Fernandina Beach, Florida this afternoon.

And the arrived from Port Elizabeth, New Jersey on Sunday with 157 dry containers and 43 refrigerated containers. Her cargo of miscellaneous goods included two boats on trailers, one excavator, ten flatbeds and a mafi and she sailed yesterday morning.