Tag: icebreakers

Seaspan has been awarded the construction contract to build one of the Canadian Coast Guard’s (CCG) new heavy polar icebreakers.

On 26 January, the Russian-flagged nuclear-powered icebreaker 50 LET POBEDY collided with a freighter in the Kara Sea.

Rosatom received its nuclear-powered icebreaker, which was constructed by the United Shipbuilding Corporation’s Baltic Shipyard division.

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.