Island welcomes some unusual visitors
The car ship Pheonix Ace is due into Hamilton today for a quarterly visit arranged by Harnett and Richardson with 141 vehicles.
The ship, which also had 12 packages of spare parts, came from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and is due to leave later today for Nassau, Bahamas.
The tanker Iver Expert out of Barbados offloaded a shipment of fuel at the Esso dock in St. George's on Sunday, leaving on Monday.
The Nos Terra, which has been at Penno's Wharf, St. George's, for the past few weeks getting repairs to her hull, is awaiting some good weather before sailing to the United States.
The British exploration ship Northern Horizon joined her at Penno's Wharf on Sunday from St. John's, Newfoundland, for repairs to her submarine equipment.
The bulk carrier Starfish is due in this week at Dockyard from the Caribbean with a consignment of 7,000 tons of cement for the Bermuda Cement Company.
Regular cargo ship Oleander reached Hamilton from Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, on Monday and left yesterday. She had a load of 195 dry containers, 47 refrigerated containers, 41 cars, three flatbeds, four Mafis, and one boat.
And the other frequent caller Somers Isles docked at Hamilton yesterday from Fernandina Beach, Florida, and is set to return today.
She had a cargo of 141 dry containers, six refrigerated, two cars, six boats, two jet skis, a mobile office, and building materials.