A top Norwegian military official identified icebreakers as one of the capability gaps that exist between NATO and Russia and ...

When ice forms on major waterways in the wintertime or in year-round cold climates, it can seize up marine traffic, not allowing boats to pass through, and often even trapping them in ice. In order to ...

In much colder parts of the world where oceans tend to freeze over, conventional vessels are essentially immobilized without the help of icebreaker ships. These vessels break, crush, and clear frozen ...

EADaily, February 24th, 2026. The cargo ship, following the easternmost port of Estonia, got stuck in ice in the territorial waters of Estonia in the Gulf of Finland. The icebreaker that arrived, ...

The most extensive sea ice in 15 years around Russia's key Baltic Sea commodity ports could curb a chunk of the nation's vast exports program.

Icebreakers do not “cut” through ice like a knife, they climb onto it and use their mass to crush it from above while pushing the broken slabs aside. This explains the key hull design differences ...

Smashing ice is straightforward—except when it is more than 10 feet thick and you’re using a ship, even one designed for the job. If an icebreaker’s hull is the wrong shape, the ice bends but doesn’t ...

ROME, Jan 31 (Reuters) - An Italian ice-breaker carrying scientists researching in the Antarctic has sailed further south than any ship has done before, the organisers of the voyage said on Tuesday, a ...