Tag: icebreakers

United States, Canada and Finland signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop world-class Arctic and polar icebreakers.

China announced that its 41st Antarctic expedition team has been set to sail on 8 November for a seven-month mission. 

On April 8, the Katerina Velikaya, Russia's specialized ice navigation vessel, caught fire during repair works at the Dalzavod shipyard in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai. 

Seaspan Shipyards has awarded ABB a contract to deliver an integrated propulsion system for the first of the CCG’s new-generation polar class icebreakers.

Russia reported on Monday, December 25th, that emergency crews successfully extinguished a fire on the Sevmorput, a Soviet-era nuclear-powered cargo-icebreaker ship docked in Murmansk.

Steerprop has been chosen to supply advanced ice-classed bow thrusters to the Canadian Coast Guard’s new Polar Icebreaker. The ship will be designed and built by Seaspan Shipyards as part of Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy. When completed, she will be one of the most powerful icebreakers in the world.

On May 23, the universal nuclear icebreaker Sibir of Atomflot FSUE completed flood control work on the Yenisei River. The crew of the nuclear-powered ship had a task to make additional ice channels and cuts in the riverbed to prevent possible ice jams. 

Aker Arctic announced that the development of the next-generation Baltic assistance icebreaker has progressed to the next phase. The Aker ARC 130 S design has been finalized in close co-operation with the Swedish Maritime Administration (SMA) and optimized for Sweden’s icebreaking needs.

After announcing the beginning of annual ice patrols and efforts to break the ice on parts of the Great Lakes and shipping lanes, the U.S. and Canadian Coast Guard have already had to come to the rescue of more than 30 ships in unusually early ice conditions.

On 27 December 2021, icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov of FSUE Rosmorport completed the pilotage of three vessels that delivered cargo for the Russian research station Vostok, in the Antarctic.