Requirements for icebreakers have been tightened, so wheels were replaced by vents and turbines, and internal combustion ...

At a shipyard in Finland last month, workers cut the first steel for a new icebreaker ship. Over the next three years, about 10,000 tons of the metal will go into the hull before the vessel is carried ...

The United States has agreed to purchase 11 of these giant ships from Finland in a bid to counter the push from Russia and ...

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Russia has named Marina Starovoitova as the first woman to captain a nuclear-powered icebreaker. The announcement came from Rosatom, the national nuclear corporation, during a ceremony in Nizhny ...

President Trump on Thursday hosted Finnish President Alexander Stubb, where the two leaders announced an agreement for the U.S. to add 11 icebreaker ships to its fleet. Trump said as part of the ...