Finland builds 60 percent of the world’s icebreakers, and designs 80 percent. Most Finnish shipyards can build an icebreaker in two or three years. Both of Canada’s new heavy icebreakers will have ...

Icebreakers are highly specialized ships with the ability not just to sail the seven seas, but also to crash through the ice on frozen oceans. Taking to ice-laden water has always been fraught with ...

The icebreaker Aiviq is a gas guzzler with a troubled history. The ship was built to operate in the Arctic, but it has a type of propulsion system susceptible to failure in ice. Its waste and ...

In much colder parts of the world where oceans tend to freeze over, conventional vessels are essentially immobilized without the help of icebreaker ships. These vessels break, crush, and clear frozen ...

(CNN) — The US Coast Guard is buying four icebreaker ships from Finland, further bolstering America’s ability to put military assets in the Arctic at a time when Russia and China’s influence in the ...

USCG Commandant Karl Schultz speaks at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C., on June 1, 2018. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Patrick Kelley) Coast Guard Commandant Adm.

Saronic Technologies plans to make Louisiana a maritime hub for autonomous surface vessels with a $300 million expansion at ...