The Bermuda Forwarders' warehouse will be torn down after 40 years of operation to make way for a new one three times the size of the current building.

The company built the warehouse on Mill Creek in 1968. Bermuda Forwarders owner Tony Kempe said he hoped demolition would begin in early autumn.

Bermuda Forwarders is one of the Island's top freight companies and provides international cargo exports and imports, moving services, storage and general trucking among other services.

Mr. Kempe said: "Currently we have our Mill Creek location and rent two others. We are looking to bring everything in house and have one larger warehouse.

"Demand from our customers has increased over the years and we need more space now that you are not allowed empty containers on the Hamilton docks." Up until recently freight companies could empty the containers at the dock and then put them into trucks to be delivered around Hamilton and across the Island. Now they must remove the containers from the docks and empty them in their warehouses before loading the content on trucks to be sent to customers.

"I need more space to do this, my customers need more space, so we decided it would be best to expand the current warehouse," he said. "Our customers will not be impacted during the demolition of the warehouse or construction of a new one."