icebreakers Archives - Page 2 of 8 - Maritime Shipping News

Coast Guard’s only heavy icebreaker on special Arctic mission

7 January 2021

Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star out at sea.

The Seattle-based Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star arrived in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, on Tuesday. The ship made a logistics stop 30 days into a monthslong Arctic deployment to protect the nation’s maritime sovereignty and security throughout the polar region.

Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star navigates Gulf of Alaska on Dec. 10, 2020. (Photo: U.S. Coast Guard)

Besides clearing shipping lanes, the 44-year-old heavy icebreaker is patrolling the Bering and Chukchi seas to support national security objectives...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/coast-guards-only-heavy-icebreaker-on-special-arctic-mission

Coast Guard breaking the ice in Northeast waterways

23 December 2020

Coast Guard Aids to Navigation vessel on the Connecticut River.

The Coast Guard has launched its icebreaking season, in anticipation of winter’s low temperatures impacting ports, waterways and harbors in the Northeast over the coming months.

Love seeing the @USCGNortheast come by the house! #SemperParatus @USCGAux @USCG pic.twitter.com/I72F6NE57c

— eweather (@Eweather13) December 19, 2020

Operation Reliable Energy for Northeast Winters (RENEW) is the Coast Guard’s regionwide effort to ensure communities have the security, supplies, energy and emergency...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/coast-guard-breaking-the-ice-in-northeast-waterways

McMurdo Resupply Canceled – US’s Only Heavy Icebreaker Will Go North Instead

4 November 2020

This year the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, the nation’s only heavy icebreaker, will not deploy to Antarctica to resupply McMurdo station this year because Operation Deep Freeze was canceled due to COVID. Instead, she will head to the Arctic this winter to “protect the nation’s maritime...

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gcaptain/~3/Trtcn3G8d2U/

Aker Arctic to Develop New Baltic Icebreakers for Finland and Sweden

3 November 2020

Finnish-based Aker Arctic has been selected to develop next-generation icebreakers for the Swedish Maritime Administration (SMA) and the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency (FTIA). The new icebreakers will provide escort operations capable of assisting larger merchant ships in the Baltic Sea....

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gcaptain/~3/edMv8cPZunM/

Russia: World’s Most Powerful Nuclear-Powered Icebreaker Headed to Arctic

22 September 2020

MOSCOW, Sept 22 (Reuters) – A nuclear-powered ice breaker Russia says is the world’s largest and most powerful set off on Tuesday on a two-week journey to the Arctic as part of Moscow’s efforts to tap the region’s commercial potential. Known as “Arktika,” the nuclear icebreaker left St. Petersburg...

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gcaptain/~3/GwDklxcJ5P4/

Russia begins building world’s most powerful icebreaker

28 August 2020

Russia’s Zvezda shipyard has begun construction of the first ‘Leader’-class nuclear icebreaker named Russia, one of the first of a fleet that Russia plans to build by 2035 in a bid to improve ship safety […]

http://safetyatsea.net/news/2020/russia-begins-build-of-worlds-most-powerful-icebreaker/

Heading Home: U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker Healy Suffers Fire Off Alaska

26 August 2020

The United States’ only medium icebreaker USCGC Healy has suffered a fire and propulsion failure while en route to the Arctic. The U.S. Coast Guard reports that the Healy was approximately 60 nautical miles off Seward, Alaska on August 18 when an electrical fire in one of the ship’s main propulsion...

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gcaptain/~3/PlynlZngaro/

Christophe de Margerie completes eastbound transit of NSR two months earlier than usual

1 June 2020

Christophe de Margerie completes eastbound transit of NSR two months earlier than usual

On 31 May 2020 at 06:00 Moscow time Christophe de Margerie, an icebreaking LNG carrier owned and operated by SCF Group, successfully completed her passage across the Northern Sea Route (NSR), bound for China with a cargo of LNG for the Yamal LNG project.

For the first time, a large-capacity vessel of this type has crossed the NSR eastbound in May, when ice conditions in the eastern sector of the NSR remain...

https://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2020/06/01/christophe-de-margerie-completes-eastbound-transit-of-nsr-two-months-earlier-than-usual/

Aurora Australis departs for its last voyage

16 March 2020

The Australian Government reported that the final voyage for Australia’s Antarctic icebreaker RSV Aurora Australis began, as the vessel departed from Hobart for sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island.

The vessel will conduct its last trip which will be a two-week voyage to resupply Macquarie Island and transport expeditioners.

In light of the event, Australian Antarctic Division’s General Manager of Operations, Charlton Clark, commented that

The Aurora Australis has been the backbone of the Australian...

https://safety4sea.com/aurora-australis-departs-for-its-last-voyage/

Finland, Sweden ink agreement for next-gen icebreakers

11 March 2020

The Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency (FTIA) and the Swedish Maritime Administration (Sjöfartsverket) inked a cooperation agreement for the design of the next generation of icebreakers.

It is reported that the design of the icebreakers will be conducted as a joint project. However, the partners have only discussed about the design of the icebreakers and not about the possible construction of the icebreakers.

The agreement signed applies to the design of two icebreakers for Finland and three...

https://safety4sea.com/finland-sweden-ink-agreement-for-next-gen-icebreakers/

+ More