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The Oleander rumbled into Hamilton yesterday morning battered but unbowed after enduring a treacherous crossing to ensure her vital cargo arrived in Bermuda. The container ship and its 14-strong crew endured 75-knot gales and 36-foot rolling seas as...

The Island’s shipping industry is already making plans for the arrival of Hurricane Gonzalo. The Bermuda Islander is expected to arrive in Hamilton tomorrow, but she will be making a swift turn around and leaving the same day. Once her 100 or so cont...

Neptune Group Management Ltd yesterday announced the promotion of Gerald Swan to customer service manager. Mr Swan has been in the shipping business for nearly 30 years, previously having worked for Globe Forwarding, Container Ship Management Ltd an...

Bermuda Container Line (BCL) is to continue to operate out of the port of New York/New Jersey after its owner Neptune Group decided to go back on its plan to switch to Philadelphia to cut costs. The U-turn came after importers made clear their prefer...

Shipping firm BCL has suspended plans to change its US port to Philadelphia after a labour dispute broke out between dock workers and management at the US port. Now the firm’s MV Oleander will continue to ship goods from New York/New Jersey’s Port El...

Shipping firm BCL has suspended plans to change its US port to Philadelphia after a labour dispute broke out between dock workers and management at the US port. Now the firm’s MV Oleander will continue to ship goods from New York/New Jersey’s Port El...

The world’s only engineless trans-Atlantic cargo vessel — the Tres Hombres — has arrived in St George’s for a short rest, before continuing on its journey to the Azores. The tall ship is carrying luxury goods including rum, cocoa beans, chocolate ba...

An unusual cargo vessel is expected to arrive in Bermuda later this week en route to the Azores. SV Tres Hombres, a 32m schooner, is said to be loaded with rum, cocoa beans, chocolate bars, honey and wine for sale in Europe. What it doesn’t have is a...

Local importers were relieved to hear that a strike by US port workers has been temporarily averted. Longshoremen in New Jersey had threatened to strike on Saturday over container royalties, a move that would have impacted container ship schedules fo...