Sentences with phrase «heavy icebreaker»

Young says the $ 150 million is barely a down payment on a heavy icebreaker, which is estimated to cost at least a billion dollars.

Without asking permission, the United States notified Canada in May that the heavy icebreaker Polar Sea would sail from Greenland to Alaska along the Arctic waterway that explorers once thought to be a way to Asia.

«Basically this means the country has no heavy icebreaker capability for that period of time,» he said.

It hopes to start building the first new heavy icebreaker in 2020, with completion scheduled for 2023.

We have only two operational icebreakers and only one heavy icebreaker.

The United States, despite having substantial scientific operations in Antarctica and seeing ever more activity in its Arctic waters, has been relying on a pair of aging, decades - old heavy icebreakers to maintain mobility in ice - cloaked seas.

Not exact matches

The Polar Star, a heavy - duty icebreaker operated by the U.S. Coast Guard, has been undergoing extensive renovations and is slated to be operational by the 2013 - 14 season.

The ice - tank trials were intended to evaluate potential heavy polar icebreaker designs for the future fleet, says Alana Miller, a Coast Guard representative.

Ultimately the Coast Guard aims to grow its fleet to include three heavy and three medium icebreakers.

On the other side of the Arctic, Russian martime operations using icebreakers on the Northern Sea Route began in 1932 and give no evidence for improving ice conditions in this period; rather the opposite, as 1937 and 1940 were noted for heavy ice in the Laptev Sea.