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Building an Arctic icebreaker: ‘Polar Max’ takes shape in Helsinki shipyard

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New icebreakers are coming to Alaska. Cities need to prepare housing, ports and more.
New icebreakers are coming to Alaska. Cities need to prepare housing, ports and more.

The Coast Guard is offering early warning for Kodiak and Seward, which will host…

Alaska cruise line experiments with alternative fuel

Unusual refueling with super-chilled natural gas signals sea change in Alaska cruise market. But…

U.S. Coast Guard wraps up another icebreaking season after long, severe winter

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The end of a sometimes challenging icebreaking season in the Baltic

This is a reproduction of an article that first appeared on Sixty Degrees North.…

Contractor awarded $3.5 billion to build out US Coast Guard’s Arctic Security Cutters fleet

U.S. shipbuilder Davie Defense Inc. announced on Wednesday that it has finalized its contract…

Indigenous partnership will drive the future of the Port of Churchill

Manitoba is creating what it says is the first governance structure of its kind…

With all eyes on the Middle East, can Russia now pursue its Arctic ambitions?

Much of the world continues to reel from the economic side effects of high…