The and will make their last trip of the year to Bermuda?s shores this week, with the arriving yesterday morning at Pennos Wharf and the docked in Hamilton since Monday.

The two ships will switch ports early this morning, and the ? which arrived from Bayonne, New Jersey ? will sail its 1,344 passengers back to sea on Thursday afternoon. The , which brings 1,072 passengers from Philadelphia, will visit Dockyard on Thursday morning, before leaving for the rest of the year on Friday morning.

Also paying a brief visit to Dockyard this week are the 3,192 passengers of the , arriving from Bayonne, New Jersey early this morning and leaving tomorrow afternoon. The , arriving from Boston, will also make a brief appearance in Dockyard next week early on Monday morning until the following morning.

Here for a longer stay are the 1,498 passengers of the , which arrived at Ordnance Island yesterday from Boston, and will stay until noon on Friday when their ship sails.

The , which brought 1,290 passengers from Philadelphia to Penno?s Wharf on Monday morning, switched to Hamilton early yesterday morning for a two-day stay before sailing in the early afternoon tomorrow.

Also this week, the M. V. will bring a shipment of cars to the Island on Friday, and the M. V. is unloading her last shipment of armour rock ? used to shore up the battered coastline around the airport ? at Penno?s Wharf, and will sail on Saturday afternoon.

The Hamilton docks will see two freight ships arrive for overnight stays this week. The , sailing from Fernandina Beach, Florida will arrive with 167 containers early on Tuesday and, carrying 137 containers, the Bermuda Islander, sailing from Salem, New Jersey will arrive early on Thursday.

The Island will also be receiving its second cement shipment since the Bermuda Cement Company (BCC) announced in August it would be shutting down. The cement ship M. V. will arrive on Monday morning and will leave on Wednesday evening of the same week. She will continue to deliver every six weeks as scheduled.

Also in Bermuda over the weekend were two warships, which stopped to give their crews rest and recreation. The Danish combat support ship HDMS was docked on Front Street and the Canadian frigate HMCS berthed in Dockyard.