In the first instance, it has accepted ownership of the motor vessel Aiviq, a 360-foot polar class 3-equivalent icebreaker, from an Edison Chouest Offshore subsidiary. The vessel will enhance the US ...

The icebreaker served as the Royal Navy ice patrol ... Built in Norway as MV Polar Circle, she was chartered by the Royal Navy in 1991 as HMS Polar Circle, before being purchased outright and ...

The Coast Guard announced it accepted ownership of the motor vessel Aiviq, a 360-foot polar class 3-equivalent icebreaker, from an Edison Chouest Offshore subsidiary Friday. The vessel ...

The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) will begin building a new massive icebreaker in fiscal 2021 to conduct research in the north polar region. It comes as Arctic ...

Instead, the Juneau-bound icebreaker, originally built as the commercial ship Aiviq in 2012, is being acquired as a stopgap measure until the PSC vessels with more advanced polar region ...

The Polar Security Cutter is the first heavy polar icebreaker to be built in the United States in more than five decades. In a statement from the Coast Guard, officials said the approval ...

It coordinates polar research in Germany and provides major infrastructure to the international scientific community, such as the research icebreaker Polarstern and stations in the Arctic and ...

The Coast Guard operates just two icebreakers — the 48-year-old heavy icebreaker Polar Star, and the 27-year-old medium icebreaker Healy. Congress approved $125 million to purchase the only ...