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Container ships dominate news from the docks this week.

refrigerated containers and 102 dry containers, including one boat, one excavator and loader, five cars, and three road trailers of structured steel.

It left for Port Elizabeth, New Jersey on Tuesday due to the weather.

Meyer Agencies reported that the Bermuda Islander arrived in local waters on Monday with 72 containers, including a boat and ten refrigerated containers.

The container ship left the next day for Norfolk, Virginia where it will be drydocked for a week.

It will be replaced for that week by another vessel, a spokesman said. Details on the replacement were not known yesterday.

The Somers Isle also arrived on Monday with 74 containers, ten of which were refrigerated, and numerous bundles of plywood, lumber, and steel decking.

It is scheduled to leave Bermuda today.

Meanwhile, Meyer said the Atlas Highway brought in 129 cars and 29 boxes of spare parts from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti last week Friday. It left the same day for Freeport, Bahamas.

Cable and Wireless' ship the Sir Eric Sharp also returned on Friday to Dockyard from Port-of-Spain, Trinidad where it was carrying out repair cable work.

John S. Darrell agency expected the fuel ship Emsgas to arrive today to discharge fuel at the Esso docks before leaving the same day.