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Bermuda’s only resident air ambulance has stopped operating due to the low number of flights it was being asked to carry out. Eloise Bell, vice president of Bermuda Air Medivac (BAM), told The Royal Gazette she and co-owner Sheldon Smith decided to c...

Transport Minister Derrick Burgess yesterday announced a moratorium on the issuing of new water truck permits. Mr Burgess told a press conference that the move was aimed at protecting market share for existing water truck operators. “Water truck oper...

Government was advised to cancel all trailer dumpster licences due to repeated complaints that materials like sand were being transported illegally, truckers leader Richard Foggo has revealed. The Trucks Advisory Committee made the recommendation las...

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...

The sale of the gaming ship Niobe Corinthian appeared to get off to a slow start in St David’s yesterday. A notice published in the Official Gazette on Friday said pre-registered bidders would be able to attend a preview between 10am and 1pm at Margi...

Taxi drivers have been given a six-month grace period to install working GPS amid concerns many are driving around with faulty systems. Transport Minister Derrick Burgess yesterday said numerous operators have purchased systems which don’t work prope...

The sinking of Carnival’s Costa Concordia could turn out to be the biggest insured loss in maritime history. And while not big enough to dent the re/insurance industry’s capital reserves, one analyst said the loss could ruin the year for the industry...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg) Carnival Corp.’s sunken cruise ship, the Costa Concordia, was insured by companies including Assicurazioni Generali SpA, RSA Insurance Group Plc and XL Group Plc, said three people with knowledge of the policies. The three are am...