Chinese icebreaker begins scientific mission in Antarctica’s Ross Sea. Find the latest news from the maritime industry on the PortNews website.

Not only are the U.S.’s nuclear missile defenses based in the Arctic, but there’s also fear Russia could seize control of ...

Polar icebreakers are shaped in a way that allows ... Russia has been opening the Northern Sea Route, which connects Asia to Europe, to move these raw materials to markets and develop offshore ...

Polar Star celebrated its 49th year of Service to the Nation and visited Cape Polar Star in the northern part of the Ross Sea. Cape Polar ... a 399-foot heavy polar icebreaker commissioned in ...

Or sign-in if you have an account. The federal government has unveiled two major domestic shipbuilding contracts for new polar icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard to use in the Arctic.

For weeks after their accident at sea, the refloated drill rig Kulluk ... Chouest promised Canadian lawmakers a “fast-track ...

The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, a heavy icebreaker homeported in Seattle, breaks ice near the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station, Antarctica, Jan. 13, 2015. (George Degener/Coast ...

The other polar icebreaker is being built by Seaspan’s ... not "dial down" their action against Israeli shipping in the Red Sea in response to U.S. military pressure… Fuel choices are among ...

The 43-year-old Polar Star is the nation’s only heavy icebreaker, and the crew is heading to McMurdo Station to escort refuel and resupply ships through the ice, which can be as thick as 10 feet.

MILAN — Canada has awarded multibillion-dollar contracts to domestic shipbuilding manufacturers in an effort to boost the country’s naval capabilities with new polar icebreakers and warships.

NORTH VANCOUVER, BC, March 7, 2025 /CNW/ - The National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS) is a long-term commitment to renew the vessel fleets of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and the Canadian Coast ...

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