US officials should consider incorporating US Coast Guard (USCG) icebreakers into US Navy (USN) Freedom of Navigation ...

The Coast Guard gets its first new polar icebreaker in more than 25 years.The Coast Guard has accepted its first new polar ...

The builder of the icebreaker Aiviq has given more than $7 million to political campaigns, parties and committees since 2012.

The Icebreaker Collaboration Effort, or ICE Pact, between the United States, Canada and Finland is meant to pool new ship construction.

I’m here to board the USCGC Healy, an “icebreaker” that can navigate through ice nearly 5ft thick. Of the Coast Guard’s fleet of 241 active “cutters”, which are ships 65ft in length or ...

No,” said Rear Adm. Jeff Garrett, a former captain of the Healy icebreaker. But “is it the ideal resource? No.” To reach the Arctic from Juneau, Garrett noted, the Aiviq will have to ...

While most of the attention is focused on the ancient U.S. fleet of large, showpiece icebreakers—the ancient USCGC Polar Star and the less capable USCGC Healy—the Coast Guard’s ice ...

No,” said Rear Adm. Jeff Garrett, a former captain of the Healy icebreaker. But “is it the ideal resource? No.” To reach the Arctic from Juneau, Garrett noted, the Aiviq will have to ...

The president plans to order new icebreakers to help compete with Russia and China, but the first one the U.S. has built in decades isn’t expected to be finished until after 2030.

newest polar icebreaker, the USCG Michael A. Healy. Under the purchase order from Avondale, Westinghouse will provide four 12-cylinder, 10,600-hp ZA40S medium-speed engines. The company is working ...