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 ...

The US Coast Guard has taken steps to address its dearth of icebreaking vessels. In the first instance, it has accepted ownership of the motor vessel Aiviq, a 360-foot polar class 3-equivalent ...

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 ...

And Tan Suo Er Hao (Explorer 2) can carry manned submersibles but is not an icebreaker. China is moving to expand its footprint and influence in the polar regions with shipping and research.

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 ...

Currently, the United States has two heavy icebreakers, one operational. “One icebreaker, the polar security cutter Polar ...

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 ...