www.seaspan.com
According to this, they have cut steel on this ship, which is a pretty significant milestone:This is the Seaspan press release for the awarding of the Polar Class Icebreaker, gleam from it what you will, they are claiming they are going to build 21 Icebreakers for the CCG, my guess is the PR person likley included the 4 non-icebreakers for the CCG they have already built.
Seaspan to Build Made-In-Canada Heavy Polar Icebreaker - Seaspan
March 7, 2025 – North Vancouver, BC – Today, Seaspan Shipyards (Seaspan) has been awarded the construction contract to build one of the Canadian Coast Guard’s (CCG) new heavy polar icebreakers. The polar icebreaker will be built entirely in Canada at Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards, located in...
www.navaltoday.com
Colin beat me to this!According to this, they have cut steel on this ship, which is a pretty significant milestone:
Canada: Construction starts on CCG's heavy polar icebreaker at Seaspan Shipyards
Seaspan Shipyards (Seaspan) has cut the steel on the Canadian Coast Guard’s (CCG) new heavy polar icebreaker.
breakingdefense.com
That's likely going to Korea, not to us. But you never know.Maybe we can get a contract to build the Aussies a PC2 Icebreaker?
Australia, Canada should build out polar partnership - Breaking Defense
In light of Canada's recent purchase of JORN from Australia, Elizabeth Buchanan writes in this op-ed that the two nations should continue to foster a polar partnership.
Sorry for the late arrival on this.
Also the only US federal agency that can respond directly to a disaster without the request of a State Governor. The other US forces like to make fun of the USCG, but I find that the average US citizen holds them in high regard, and from my experience with them that regard is well deserved. Their Lifeboat crews are second to none and are sort of a Guard within the the Guard.
While everyone loves to pick on them, they have a lot of unique capabilities, from HITRON to their Rescue Swimmers, as well as a fair decent Naval capability to that exceeds many medium countries in terms of capabilities, and a larger Maritime Helicopter community than most countries entire rotary wing fleets.
gcaptain.com
My guess is that lobby groups in the US will work hard to sink this deal, does not matter if they can't deliver, but they don't want to share their pie.
US Coast Guard Negotiating With Finland’s Rauma Marine For Construction of Up to Five Icebreakers, Helsinki Press Reports
In what could dramatically accelerate expansion of U.S. Arctic capabilities the Coast Guard is reportedly in negotiations with Finnish shipbuilder Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) for three to five medium-sized icebreakers....
They don't want shipbuilding outside the US. They aren't particularly concerned about what gets delivered, just that it's built in the US.
That actually works in our geopolitical favour in a number of ways. US wants continental defence, and they can't provide it up north. The longer they take to sort out their icebreaker situation the better position we are as we'll be more icebreaker heavy, more ice operations, more understanding of what's going on, and helping out Alaska with various problems.My guess is that lobby groups in the US will work hard to sink this deal, does not matter if they can't deliver, but they don't want to share their pie.
US Coast Guard Negotiating With Finland’s Rauma Marine For Construction of Up to Five Icebreakers, Helsinki Press Reports
In what could dramatically accelerate expansion of U.S. Arctic capabilities the Coast Guard is reportedly in negotiations with Finnish shipbuilder Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) for three to five medium-sized icebreakers....
DHS has liaisons in various DoD HQ’s just like DoD has some in DHS.
