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Canada, U.S. and Finland form pact to build icebreakers for Arctic

Murray Brewster, CBC News
Posted: Friday, July 12, 2024 at 08:42
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The United States, Canada and Finland have entered into a trilateral pact to build icebreakers for the Arctic region, the

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China commissions new icebreaker

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, July 10, 2024 at 16:04
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The research vessel is capable of breaking through one meter thick sea-ice and is equipped with drones, unmanned ships and

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Canadian Coast Guard launches summer operations in Arctic

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Monday, July 8, 2024 at 15:41
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The Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) has launched its summer operations in the North, deploying seven vessels to the Arctic for

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Designs released for new coast guard Arctic icebreaker

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at 09:29
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By Samuel Wat · CBC News  Seaspan Shipyards to start construction on new heavy icebreaker by end of the year The company

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The U.S. was supposed to get new heavy icebreaker this year, instead costs soar

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 09:19
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The Coast Guard’s plan to build three heavy icebreakers is five years behind schedule and the price has ballooned to

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Slow progress, huge budget overrun for Rosatomflot’s lider-class icebreaker

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, April 22, 2024 at 14:15
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Sluggish progress and massive budget overrun have characterised the four years that have past since Rosatomflot gave go-ahead for the

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New nuclear icebreaker will be named “Leningrad”

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:13
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Keel laying ceremony takes place at the Baltic Shipyard on January 26, the anniversary day of the end of the

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It’s a wrap for Canadian Coast Guard’s 2023 season in Arctic

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at 15:22
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The Canadian Coast Guard’s operational season in the Arctic is done for 2023, the agency said on Monday. “The CCG

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In chilly return to past, Putin names new icebreaker “Stalingrad”

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2023 at 10:36
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The projected nuclear-powered icebreaker was originally to be named Kamchatka. But the Kremlin now appears to have intervened and renamed

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Moscow cuts funding for icebreakers

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, October 13, 2023 at 10:57 — Last Updated: Friday, October 13, 2023 at 11:06
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Slashed investments and a spike in construction costs will lead to a significant delay for Russia’s expanded fleet of nuclear

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China’s icebreaker Xuelong-2 is sailing to the North Pole

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, August 18, 2023 at 13:30
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In cooperation with researchers from Russia and Thailand, Arctic experts from the Chinese Polar Institute are sailing 15,500 nautical miles

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New Arctic industry gives boost in icy shipments

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, July 12, 2023 at 11:48
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Russia’s nuclear-powered icebreakers made a total of 435 ship escort operations in the first half of 2023. New industrial projects

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Third Chinese polar icebreaker will carry deep-sea submersibles

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, June 28, 2023 at 10:21
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Third Chinese polar icebreaker will carry deep-sea submersibles It features a bow that reminds of Russia’s new giant Leader-class super-icebreakers.

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Russian VTB bank to finance the construction of icebreakers

The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, June 19, 2023 at 11:19
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By Elizaveta Vereykina, The Independent Barents Observer  Amid sanctions, the importance of the Northern Sea Route rises. The Russian-sanctioned bank

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Heavy lift carrier enters icy Arctic waters en route from China to Murmansk

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, June 16, 2023 at 13:38
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The more than 200 meter long Pugnax sails through the Bering Strait and westwards on the Northern Sea Route. On

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