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The world’s only engineless trans-Atlantic cargo vessel — the Tres Hombres — has arrived in St George’s for a short rest, before continuing on its journey to the Azores. The tall ship is carrying luxury goods including rum, cocoa beans, chocolate ba...

An unusual cargo vessel is expected to arrive in Bermuda later this week en route to the Azores. SV Tres Hombres, a 32m schooner, is said to be loaded with rum, cocoa beans, chocolate bars, honey and wine for sale in Europe. What it doesn’t have is a...

Local importers were relieved to hear that a strike by US port workers has been temporarily averted. Longshoremen in New Jersey had threatened to strike on Saturday over container royalties, a move that would have impacted container ship schedules fo...

William (Bill) Brewer will be remembered for steering Bermuda towards containerisation when few others believed in the system. Mr Brewer recently passed away at the age of 83, but not before guiding the Island into what proved to be a new age of ship...

A 15,000 tonne general cargo ship en route from Savannah, Georgia to Finland was forced to divert to Bermuda yesterday to offload a crewman who had taken ill. According to a spokesman at Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre, the Tofton arrived at 1pm a...

Customers face lengthy delays in getting their goods after union bosses enforced an overtime ban at Hamilton Docks. The Bermuda Industrial Union has instructed about 40 dockworkers to stop putting in additional hours after contract negotiations colla...

A chief officer who is believed to have fallen overboard from a container ship on Wednesday is considered lost at sea. A Bermuda Maritime Operations spokesman said: “Unfortunately, he has not been found. The US Coast completed search patterns today. ...