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Ships like Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas are too big to call on Canada Place in Vancouver, which has prompted the Port of Vancouver to begin looking at other possible locations, including Roberts Bank, for a new cruise ship terminal.
Will they be cruising into Delta?
Port of Vancouver studying idea of new terminal to accommodate ever-growing ships SANDOR GYARMATI
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Supersized Love Boats could be coming to Delta. With cruise lines now building bigger ships, which Canada Place simply won’t be able to accommodate, the Port of Vancouver has begun preliminary studies on a potential cruise ship facility either
at Roberts Bank or perhaps Richmond. “We’re very early in the process,” port president and CEO Robin Silvester told the Optimist this week. “Cruise ships are getting bigger. When Canada Place was being built, it used to handle five cruise ships, but now it can’t even handle three of the bigger ones that come in at the same time.
“In fact, if you look massive new ships in at the size of Canada recent years, includPlace, if you were ing Royal Caribbean’s building a cruise terSymphony of the Seas, minal from scratch which will become the you’d build it the size biggest cruise ship on the of Canada Place just seas when it launches to handle one vessel… next April. The ship will so it’s a challenge and Robin Silvester take the title from the we’re very good at cruise line’s sister ship, dealing with challenges.” Harmony of the Seas, which Cruise lines have turned to launched in 2016 with a capacity
of over 5,000 passengers. Able to carry even more passengers, the 16-deck Symphony of the Seas will spend its inaugural summer in Europe before arriving at its newly built massive cruise ship terminal in Miami. The newer, larger vessels can’t travel under the Lions Gate Bridge, noted Silvester. DELTA: see Page 3