week, with one liner bringing in a season record.

The Horizon , a weekly arrival from New York, was carrying a 1998 record 1,685 passengers when she berthed at King's Wharf in Dockyard on Tuesday.

She sails back to the Big Apple tomorrow afternoon.

Another 1,631 passengers came to Bermuda on the Zenith , which arrived in Hamilton from New York on Monday morning, sailed to St. George's yesterday and leaves today.

And the Norwegian Majesty , which stays at Ordnance Island in St. George's during its Tuesday-to-Friday visits from Boston, was carrying another 1,256 visitors.

The Bahamian-flag Regal Empress anchors in Grassy Bay later today, bringing even more passengers from New York. She will then berth at Dockyard before moving to Hamilton when the Horizon leaves.

The Leeward , from Alexandria, Virginia, also making her second trip to Bermuda of the season, is due to arrive in Hamilton tomorrow afternoon before sailing onto Dockyard Sunday morning. She leaves Bermuda Monday.

More than 1,500 passengers were on the Song of America , from New York, when she docked in St. George's on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, dockworkers unloaded 124 containers -- including nine reefers -- from the Somers Isles , which arrived from Florida on Sunday.

She was also carrying three trucks, a bulldozer and a tractor.

Ninety-six containers, including 17 reefers, came off the Bermuda Islander when she docked at Hamilton from Salem, New Jersey, on Monday morning.

The Oleander brought 130 dry and 36 reefer containers during her regular trip from Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, this week.

And 99 vehicles and 27 cases of parts will be offloaded from the MV Palma when she arrives from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sunday, heading off to Nassau in the Bahamas later that night.

The US-registered motor vessel Strong Cajun came in overnight, docking at Marginal Wharf, to discharge a sick crewman and make minor repairs.

And the Liberian-registered Stena Conductor , a 132,000-tonne cargo ship, laid anchor four miles off St. David's on Tuesday night for an annual seaworthy check-up by a surveyor from the American Bureau of Shipping.

The surveyor had flown to the Island and was piloted to the ship, before conducting tests ten miles off shore.

The empty Stena Conductor is now heading for West Africa to wait for new orders.