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Hundreds of full containers remain on the dockside in Hamilton as a result of two days of industrial action. Although containers were unloaded from the Somers Isles and Bermuda Islander last week about 200 containers have not moved since Thursday w...

The Liberian tanker Sigma Triumph is being diverted to Bermuda so an ill crew member can be taken to hospital. The crew member has been suffering from abdominal pain since Monday. The Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre was contacted at about 8pm thi...

The final departure of the infamous Queen of Bermuda and Ocean Monarch 50 years ago signalled the end of an era for the island. The Furness fleet brought tens of thousands of visitors from the United States over 47 years, while Furness Withy invested...

A helicopter rescue in pitch darkness, hundreds of miles out in stormy seas, is not the way local doctor Michael Urdang expected to finish Valentine’s Day. Just married, Dr Urdang had been grateful for a couple of days off and the chance to spend the...

Stevedoring Services Ltd (SSL) will continue to operate the Hamilton docks for the next five years after today signing a new lease with the Corporation of Hamilton. However, the Corporation intends to encourage competition for the right to operate th...

The Amstel Trader made record time to make it into Hamilton yesterday with fresh food and supplies. But just as one potential crisis was averted, another one loomed on to the horizon with news that dockworkers in New Jersey had downed tools jeopardis...

The Bermuda Islander has not sustained any damage after a mechanical failure occurred while the vessel was being moved from her dry dock in the United States. The container ship had been undergoing routine maintenance in Jacksonville, Florida, when t...

Two container ships are making full speed to Bermuda to alleviate this week’s fresh food shortage, caused by Winter Storm Jonas hitting the United States East Coast. The island’s shipping schedule was thrown into turmoil by the perilous blizzard, lea...

Courier company IBC is to be bought out by its US namesake and a group of Bermuda investors. The investor group has struck a deal with IBC Ltd in Bermuda owners BAS Services to take over the company. The move means US-based IBC Inc and private invest...

Treacherous blizzards on the east coast of the United States have wreaked havoc on the Island’s shipping schedule. The delayed arrival of both the Amstel Trader and the Somers Isles this week could have a significant impact on supermarkets as well as...

High winds prevented the Somers Isles making her maiden voyage into Dockyard this morning. It was not so much that the container ship could not make it into the flagship berth, but the fact that the crane tasked with unloading the nine racing yachts ...

The City of Hamilton has announced it will next week host a meeting to detail new rules for shipping containers. According to a spokeswoman, the city is changing the way it manages the use and movement of 40ft shipping containers which would affect b...