Icebreakers are highly specialized ships with the ability not just to sail the seven seas, but also to crash through the ice on frozen oceans. Taking to ice-laden water has always been fraught ...

Lanes through the Baltic Sea ice are pictured from the deck of the icebreaker Polaris, which assists cargo ships in and out of ports, in Tornio, northern Finland, on 3 Feb. 2019. (Sam Kingsley/AFP ...

Plans for large-scale expansion of Northern Sea Route trade means that the number of icebreakers required will increase from 10 or 11 to between 15 and 17, according to Rosatom Director General Alexei ...

But it is the U.S.’s only icebreaker that operates year-round, and it was built nearly half a century ago. In the intensifying global race to access the Arctic, icebreakers are the essential ...

(NyxoLyno Cangemi/U.S. Coast Guard) MILAN — An agreement between Finland, Canada, and the United States to jointly build icebreaker ships may hold the key to deeper cooperation between the ...

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These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. The icebreaker Aiviq is a gas guzzler with a troubled history. The ship was built to operate in the Arctic ...

Under the arrangement whimsically labeled the Icebreaker Collaboration Effort, or ICE Pact, the three nations have agreed to share research, knowledge and capabilities in building a still ...

Multiple U.S. government assessments have revealed that the U.S. is lagging in polar icebreaker developments, falling behind rival Arctic nations Russia and China, which has sought to identify ...

Many organizations love opening their internal meetings with familiar icebreakers like your most desired superpower, favorite childhood memory, first job, and favorite season. Icebreakers are ...

Since July, China sent its three icebreakers to the Arctic Sea for the first time, according to Newsweek, which cited open-source ship tracking data based on the automatic identification system ...

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