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

Power at the Poles The United States leads the world in aircraft carriers, with eleven nuclear-powered giants. Russia, i ...

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 ...

With most cargo vessels still running on dirty bunker oil, the global shipping industry is desperate to meet its CO2 ...

In addition to its primary role as an icebreaker, the vessel serves as a patrol ship and tugboat and can escort support vessels. It is also capable of protecting marine resources. The ship measures ...

The Director of Uzatom, Azim Akhmedkhadjayev, has been holding talks with Italian specialists and businesses about ...

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

As maritime stakeholders race to scale up the solutions that will help decarbonise the industry, interest has been growing in a technology that has long been in the background: nuclear power. This ...