Great Lakes shipyard drydocks USCG cutter

JULY 14, 2015 — USCG Cutter Katmai Bay (WTGB-101) arrived at Great Lakes Shipyard, Cleveland, OH, for drydocking, inspection, maintenance, and repairs July 8. The 140-foot Bay-class icebreaking tug was hauled out

Shell icebreaker to be repaired at Vigor’s Portland shipyard

JULY 13, 2015 — MSV Fennica, the Finnish multipurpose icebreaker on charter to Shell, is to go to Vigor Industrial’s Portland, OR, shipyard for repairs to the one inch wide by three

Shell icebreaker forced back to port by hull fracture

JULY 7, 2015 —A Finnish multipurpose icebreaker on charter to Shell had to return to Dutch Harbor, Alaska, early Friday morning after its hull was found to have a fracture. The vessel

Polar Star frees fishing vessel trapped in ice

FEBRUARY 15, 2015—On Friday evening, February 14, the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard heavy icebreaker Polar Star freed the Australian-flagged fishing vessel Antarctic Chieftain from ice some 900 miles northwest of

Polar Star makes progress on Antarctic rescue mission

FEBRUARY 12, 2015 — The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker CG Polar Star is making slow but steady progress to assist an Australian-flagged fishing vessel trapped by ice in Antarctica. The 399-foot Polar

Nuclear icebreaker will have Fluidmecanica winch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 — Fluidmecanica, Vigo, Spain, is  to supply the main towing winch for a nuclear-powered icebreaker (Project 22220 LC-60YA) to be built at the Baltiysky Zavod shipyard in St. Petersburg,

Deltamarin wins EUR 1.8 million icebreaker design contract

AUGUST 7, 2014 — Deltamarin Ltd has been awarded a EUR 1.8 million contract by Arctech Helsinki Shipyard Inc. for the entire machinery and technical spaces outfitting production design of the  LNG-fueled

Linde to supply icebreaker LNG fuel tanks

JUNE 17, 2014 — Sweden’s Linde Group has been awarded a contract by Arctech Helsinki Shipyard of Finland to build an LNG fuel gas system for the new icebreaker it is building

Wärtsilä engines to power LNG fueled icebreaker

JUNE 10, 2014 — Wärtsilä reports that the new icebreaker being built by Arctech Helsinki Shipyard for the Finnish Transport Agency will be powered one 8-cylinder Wärtsilä 20DF, two 9-cylinder Wärtsilä 34DF,

New Finnish icebreaker to have ABB power and Azipods

MAY 16, 2015 — ABB, a global leader in power and automation technology, has secured a new order to supply electric power plant and Azipod propulsion units for the icebreaker ordered earlier

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