Even as global temperatures warm and open up shipping lanes, the region remains largely impenetrable for ships in all but one or two summer months—unless accompanied by a Polar class icebreaker.

Construction officially started on one of two new heavy polar icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG), marking the ...

Seaspan Shipyards has cut steel on the Canadian Coast Guard’s (CCG) new heavy polar icebreaker, marking the first time a heavy ...

Canadian shipbuilder Seaspan has begun construction of the country’s new heavy polar icebreaker vessel. The first steel for ...

The US Coast Guard’s Polar Security Cutter (PSC) programme has been revitalised by the award of a US$951 million contract ...

Seaspan Shipyards begins construction of Canadian Coast Guard’s new polar icebreaker. Find the latest news from the maritime ...

The Polar Class 3 ship, which joined the country’s swelling fleet of oceanographic vessels in 2019, was developed with the help of Finnish icebreaker expertise and remains China’s most powerfu ...

The polar icebreaker built by Chantier Davie will be 139 metres long and will be a Polar Class 2 vessel, which means the ship can break ice in the High Arctic and conduct oceanographic research ...

The Louisiana-based shipyard recently secured a $951 million contract for detailed design and further construction of the USCGC Polar Sentinel, the first of three planned icebreakers, the company ...

The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, a heavy icebreaker homeported in Seattle, breaks ice near the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station, Antarctica, Jan. 13, 2015. (George Degener/Coast Guard) ...

Yereth Rosen Alaska Beacon Nov 18, 2024 Nov 18, 2024 Scientists aboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker have discovered ... one of two polar-class Coast Guard icebreaking cutters, were working ...