WASHINGTON DC - Two Michigan members of Congress are asking President Donald Trump to send a recently obtained icebreaker ...

Despite operating one of the largest navies in the world, the United States has only two operational icebreakers - limiting ...

The United States has agreed to purchase 11 of these giant ships from Finland in a bid to counter the push from Russia and ...

Finland will provide four new icebreakers to America under a $6.1 billion agreement as the U.S. seeks to strengthen Arctic ...

Indeed, now that Russia has a strong foothold in the region, it has developed the Northern Sea Route (NSR), a rival to the Suez Canal route for container ships cutting through the Arctic—to the point ...

The need for construction of specialized ships to clear the path in the ice appeared in the mid-18th century. The first ...

VALLEJO (KPIX 5) -- The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, the nation's last - and only - ocean going heavy ice breaker is in the dry dock again at the Mare Island Shipyard in Vallejo. That's because ...

The Arctic journey is billed as the first step in China’s quest to open a “Polar Silk Road,” a commercial shipping route ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii— The only U.S. ship capable of breaking through Antarctica’s thick ice is getting scrubbed down, fixed up and loaded with goods in balmy Hawaii this week as it prepares to head to ...

The importance of Stubb and Trump's shared interest was highlighted in March, when Stubb made a surprise appearance at ...

An Australian rescue vessel trying to reach a ship and its passengers trapped by ice in Antarctica was expected to arrive on Sunday evening local time (early Sunday morning Eastern Time), after early ...

The term "icebreakers" refers to ships designed to break up ice to facilitate travel through ice-packed regions. A flow of ice might well describe the atmosphere of a business meeting before it gets ...