afternoon may be making a return visit if it is decided that Hurricane Dennis poses too much of a threat for her to make her scheduled cruise to the Bahamas, Ben Greening writes .

The ship is back at her port of Newport News now, but a decision will be taken soon on whether or not the seas are safe enough to go to the Caribbean.

If the ship does come to Bermuda instead, she will arrive on Thursday afternoon, berthing at King's Wharf, Dockyard and leave the next day at midday.

In the meantime the cruise ship Zenith arrived in Hamilton on Monday bringing 1,612 passengers.

She is due to shift this morning to St. George's and sails at 3 p.m. tomorrow afternoon.

The Norwegian Crown arrived in Hamilton at 10 a.m. yesterday carrying 1,265 passengers.

She shifted to Hamilton yesterday morning and is due to sail tomorrow afternoon.

The cruise ship Horizon arrived yesterday in Dockyard and is due to shift to Hamilton tomorrow afternoon and sails on Friday afternoon with her 1,615 passengers. Arriving yesterday morning was the Nordic Empress carrying 1,823 passengers with her and berthing at St. George's.

She is due to shift to Hamilton Harbour today and departs on Friday afternoon.

On the cargo docks, the Oleander arrived on Sunday and sailed back to New Jersey on Monday.

This was a day earlier than usual because of the Captain's wish to avoid Hurricane Dennis.

The Oleander brought with her 147 dry containers and 52 refrigerated ones.

Also on board were three road trailers and 22 cars.

The Somer's Isles arrived yesterday a day late because of an encounter with Hurricane Dennis en route to Florida.

She brought with her 82 containers including 7 refrigerated ones, a boat, a trailer and numerous bundles of lumber and steel.

She is due to leave tomorrow.

The container ship Bermuda Islander is due to arrive on Thursday morning, bringing with her 92 containers including 16 refrigerated ones.