Construction officially started on one of two new heavy polar icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG), marking the ...

Eilís Quinn is an award-winning journalist and manages Radio Canada International’s Eye on the Arctic news cooperation project. Eilís has reported from the Arctic regions of all eight ...

Seaspan Shipyards has cut steel on the Canadian Coast Guard’s (CCG) new heavy polar icebreaker, marking the first time a heavy ...

For example, the U.S. Coast Guard has not launched a new heavy icebreaker ... getting America's ship count up quickly. Regardless of the bills' prospects for adoption, Canada's Seaspan is already ...

Icebreaking Superintendent for the Canadian Coast Guard's Central Region said Tuesday morning from his base in Montreal. The ship is the medium icebreaker Pierre Radisson, launched in 1977 and ...

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Seaspan Shipyards begins construction of Canadian Coast Guard’s new polar icebreaker. Find the latest news from the maritime ...

the old icebreaker had served the Canadian Coast Guard under the name Norman McLeod Rogers before joining the Chilean Navy. The new Viel ship will arguably be the largest icebreaker operating in ...

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 Guard) ...