Royal Caribbean's Radiance of the Seas is undergoing upgrades and enhancements at Victoria Shipyards in British Columbia, Canada and will be ready to sail out on Thursday. The choice Royal Caribbean made of these shipyards has a lot to do with the competitive options offered by Victoria Shipyards.
Royal Caribbean's vice-president of technical projects, Kevin Douglas, believes that Victoria Shipyards was the right choice to handle Radiance of the Seas' upgrades, "It’s not just an economic argument, it’s whether the shipyard has the capability to do all the work we need, is there the infrastructure around the shipyard. We want to get in and out quickly. On the West Coast of Canada and the U.S., this would be our choice, no question about it.".
In just three weeks, the shipyard will have Radiance of the Seas back into service to begin the Alaska cruise season. Radiance is scheduled to leave Esquimalt Harbour on Thursday, bound for Vancouver to pick up passengers.
During it's time in the shipyards, 1700 workers have been working on upgrading, replacing and enhancing many aspects of Radiance of the Seas. The ship's overhaul is meant to keep her a competitive option in a cruise market where the newer and bigger ships can cause customers to overlook the older ships in the fleet.
