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The Island’s shipping and courier companies wasted no time informing customers they no longer have to pay the higher 25 percent duty rate for imported goods after Mailboxes Unlimited’s Supreme Court victory. Customs officials yesterday confirmed the ...

Mailboxes Unlimited says hundreds of packages are stuck at Customs because of new procedures that are delaying clearance of its express deliveries for up to two weeks. Supreme Court heard yesterday that as of June 29, the new procedures, among other ...

Business owner Steve Thomson has taken legal action against Government over the new duty rates and HM Customs requirements. Mr Thomson’s shipping and courier company, Mailboxes Unlimited, has filed a writ against the Collector of Customs concerning a...

Opposition MPs yesterday called for Bermuda to ensure ships registered here maintain the highest possible standards. Shadow Government Estates Minister Cole Simons asked for an update from the Transport Minister on an incident in April when a Bermuda...

It was the 1960s, an era when dinner was served from silver platters and people listened to records from Johnny Mathis and Elvis. It was also a time when hundreds of young men gathered to work on board the ‘millionaire’s ship’ Queen of Bermuda. The...

Environment Minister Marc Bean has visited a redeveloped port in the Bahamas to see how a similar project might work in Bermuda. Mr Bean was shown around the $83 million Arawak Port Development, a waterfront being reconstructed after the cargo port w...

British Labour peer John Prescott has raised concerns in the House of Lords about Cunard registering its ships on Bermuda’s Register of Shipping. The British cruise line switched its ships’ registration from the UK to Bermuda in October to benefit fr...

By Alaric Nightingale LONDON (Bloomberg) Tankers hauling liquefied natural gas at sea will earn record rates in 2012 as demand reaches an all-time high, beating returns from vessels carrying oil and coal, according to the world’s biggest shipping hed...