The Icebreaker Collaboration Effort, or ICE Pact, between the United States, Canada and Finland is meant to pool new ship ...

newest polar icebreaker, the USCG Michael A. Healy. Under the purchase order from Avondale, Westinghouse will provide four 12-cylinder, 10,600-hp ZA40S medium-speed engines. The company is working ...

But for all this, the same Coast Guard bought the Aiviq for $125 million late last year. The United States urgently needs new icebreakers in an era when climate change is bringing increased ...

ProPublica journalist McKenzie Funk says the Aiviq has a history of failures and design problems, but the Coast Guard doesn’t ...

Funding for the U.S. Coast Guard to purchase a commercial icebreaker for Arctic use, with the intent of homeporting it in Juneau, is included in a budget deal reached by Congress on the eve of a ...

The U.S. Coast Guard said that with ice forming, its fleet of icebreakers has begun working to keep shipping underway on the Great Lakes.

Aiviq builders gave more than $7M in political donations since 2012; Coast Guard purchased vessel under pressure from Congress. The icebreaker Aiviq is a gas guzzler with a troubled history.

As ice coverage expands, U.S. Coast Guard officials will assign additional icebreakers as needed. The Mackinaw has a crew of nine officers and 41 enlisted personnel, the Coast Guard said.