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 ...

Canada rejected similar overtures that year. A middleman for Chouest promised Canadian lawmakers a “fast-track polar icebreaker” — the Aiviq — “at less than one-third of the price of the ...

U.S. currently relies on two polar icebreakers, one heavy and one medium vessel. The heavy icebreaker, Polar Star, entered service in 1976 In contrast, the Russian fleet consists of roughly 40 ...

Hongkongers thronged to get a look at the first polar research icebreaker built in China that has docked in Hong Kong on a goodwill visit. Members of the public on Tuesday gave the massive Xue ...

The icebreaker stopped at 43 destinations in five seas: the White, Barents, Kara, East Siberian and Laptev, where 32 stops were at polar stations ARKHANGLELSK, November 28. /TASS/. The Mikhail ...

Canada rejected similar overtures that year. A middleman for Chouest promised Canadian lawmakers a “fast-track polar icebreaker” — the Aiviq — “at less than one-third of the price of the ...