Cruise ships expected to push up visitor arrivals
Visitor arrivals should jump significantly this week with the arrival of four cruise ships.
The Zenith arrived in Hamilton on Monday with 1,688 passengers. She is slated to stop in St. George's today and head back to New York tomorrow. The Norwegian Majesty docked in St. George's yesterday with 1664 passengers and is slated to return to Boston on Friday.
On Saturday the Rotterdam is scheduled to call in at Dockyard and on Sunday the Seven Seas Navigator will make her second trip from Florida to Bermuda, docking in Hamilton.
Last Wednesday the Coral Acropora discharged propane gas for Shell at the oil docks in St. George's and yesterday the motor vessel Frida off-loaded bulk cement for the Bermuda Cement Company in Dockyard.
A cable ship, Maersk Forwarder arrived last Sunday and has begun laying the Atlantica 1 telephone cable at Anne's Bay. She is expected to leave tomorrow.
The Oleander container ship left yesterday morning after unloading 31 refrigerated containers, 141 dry containers, two boats, a truck and a heavy duty trailer on Sunday.
Bermuda's other container ship, Bermuda Islander , is due in at the Hamilton docks tomorrow at daylight.