This will allow it to break through ice up to 13 feet (four meters) thick—nearly double the capacity of the current ...

The U.S. Coast Guard plans to hire the commercial icebreaker Aiviq to serve in the Arctic while waiting for the next ...

The need for ships with icebreaking capabilities is growing as China and Russia increase their presence in the Arctic, ...

The shipyard has seen recent expansion but has until now been unsuccessful in securing contracts for nuclear icebreakers. The contracts for all five Arktika-class icebreakers went to the Baltic ...

MOSCOW, April 26. /TASS/. The construction of the Arktika universal nuclear-powered lead icebreaker will be completed in 2020, according to a government resolution posted on the government’s ...

Russia will build three next-generation Lider-class nuclear-powered icebreakers ... Russia are building three current-generation icebreakers: the Arktika, the Ural and the Sibir, Rogozin said.

It is one of the three vessels part of Project 22220 which are to become the world’s largest and most powerful nuclear icebreakers. The lead ship of the project, the Arktika, was commissioned ...

Nov. 13 (UPI) --Political leaders in the United States, Finland and Canada announced Wednesday that the three nations will build world-class icebreakers for the Arctic and polar waters.

Three new-generation nuclear-powered vessels – the Arktika, Sibir, and Ural – have been floated out from the Baltic Shipyard and are now working in the waters of the Northern Sea Route. The Chukotka ...

Russia launched a new nuclear-powered icebreaker named Chukotka ... Three new-generation nuclear-powered vessels – the Arktika, Sibir, and Ural – have been floated out from the Baltic Shipyard ...

Russia has deployed nuclear-powered icebreakers called Arktika and Sibir, which have been characterized as the largest and strongest icebreaker ships in the world. This isn't the first time alarms ...