The U.S. Coast Guard’s quest to buy a new fleet of icebreakers has drawn interest from both domestic and international ...

China's research icebreaker Xuelong, or Snow Dragon, berths at a base dock in Shanghai on April 8, 2025. Photo: VCG Chinese ...

newest polar icebreaker, the USCG Michael A. Healy. Under the purchase order from Avondale, Westinghouse will provide four 12-cylinder, 10,600-hp ZA40S medium-speed engines. The company is working ...

The 420' medium icebreaker Healy, built in 1997, is one of two remaining ice cutters in the Coast Guard's Arctic force. Coast ...

Bollinger Shipyards has received a modified $951.6 million contract from the Coast Guard to go ahead with building the first heavy polar icebreaker constructed in the U.S. in nearly 50 years.

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 ...

Seaspan Shipyards has cut steel on the Canadian Coast Guard’s (CCG) new heavy polar icebreaker, marking the first time a heavy polar icebreaker has been built in Canada in more than 60 years.

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 ...

“It really depends where America puts its priority – if it’s on schedule, then Finland is probably the right answer. If they ...

Image shows the German research icebreaker Polarstern moored to an ice floe during the polar night. Steffen Graupner / Alfred Wegener Institute ...

FTIA says that vessel will be a B+ size icebreaker between a heavy Ice Class A icebreaker and a medium-sized Ice Class B ...