Bollinger Shipyards is moving forward with design work and construction of the Coast Guard’s first new heavy icebreaker in ...

Bollinger Shipyards on Tuesday announced it has received a $951.6 million contract to proceed with building the United States’ first new polar icebreaker in nearly 50 years. The Lockport, La.-ba ...

President Trump is pushing the United States to purchase “about 40 icebreakers.” Of course, paying for such a fleet in the ...

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB 10) and crew departed the Antarctic region Tuesday after 65 days south of the Antarctic Circle in support of Operation Deep Freeze 2025. Operation Deep ...

The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star moves through pack ice Dec. 28, 2019, about 200 miles north of McMurdo Station, Antarctica. The 43-year-old Polar Star is the nation’s only heavy icebreaker ...

It is one of two icebreakers currently in operation for the U.S. Coast Guard, along with 42-year-old heavy icebreaker Polar Star. It seems the U.S. cannot do enough to fast-track the construction ...

A Mississippi shipyard has been awarded a $951.6 million contract to adjust for cost increases for the first Polar Security ...

Primary construction of the ship would be done at Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding in Pascagoula. But other Bollinger ...

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 heavy icebreaker USCGC Polar Star can break a 1.8-meter-thick ice at a speed of three knots and more than six metres thick ice at the lower speed SYDNEY, January 05, 5:36 /ITAR-TASS/.

At 13,000 tons, the U.S. Coast Guard’s Polar Star is a mammoth vessel made to cut through Arctic ice more than 20 feet thick. But it is the U.S.’s only icebreaker that operates year-round ...