Bollinger Shipyards is moving forward with design work and construction of the Coast Guard’s first new heavy icebreaker in ...

Bollinger Shipyards on Tuesday announced it has received a $951.6 million contract to proceed with building the United States’ first new polar icebreaker in nearly 50 years. The Lockport, La.-ba ...

On Saturday morning, the Canadian and Quebec governments announced with great fanfare that Chantier Davie, based in Lévis, had been awarded a $3.25 billion contract to build a polar icebreaker. The ...

Not only are the U.S.’s nuclear missile defenses based in the Arctic, but there’s also fear Russia could seize control of ...

A new era in Canadian shipbuilding is underway as Seaspan Shipyards has been awarded the contract to build one of the Canadian Coast Guard’s (CCG) next-generation heavy polar icebreakers.

“We are exploring how a U.S. shipyard(s) could use our existing Canadian Coast Guard Multi-Purpose Vessel design, a polar class 4 icebreaker that could be relatively easily upgraded to class 3 ...

In November, the U.S., Canada and Finland signed a memorandum of understanding “to begin working together to develop world-class Arctic and polar icebreakers through the exchange of knowledge ...

The new polar icebreaker is the seventh NSS vessel and the fifth Polar Class vessel built for the CCG. Seaspan's contribution to the NSS includes the design and construction of up to 21 ...

The other polar icebreaker is being built by Seaspan's Vancouver Shipyards ... having created or maintained over 20,400 good middle-class jobs per year. Since 2010, Canadian shipyards have delivered 8 ...

The Seattle-based cutter is a 399-foot heavy polar icebreaker commissioned in 1976, weighing 13,500 tons and is 84-feet wide with a 34-foot draft. The cutter's six diesel and three gas turbine ...

Mr. Legault specifically referred to “the PolarMax platform,” owned by Davie Shipbuilding, which he described as “the world’s most advanced polar-class icebreaker” and “the only ...