NOVO-OGAREVO, October 18. /TASS/. Russia has an icebreaker fleet that knows no equals and is building new vessels, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with representatives of the BRICS media.

In a significant development, Russian state-owned energy giant Rosatom has announced plans to construct four non-nuclear ...

Legendary Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance sank more than a century ago and its wreck lay undiscovered at the bottom of the Weddell Sea until March 2022.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has committed new funding to upgrade the home port of the country Antarctic icebreaker Albanese on Wednesd ...

An Italian navy ship on Wednesday docked at the Albanian port of Shengjin to bring the first group of 16 migrants intercepted in international waters to be processed there.

Hobart's status as the gateway to Antarctica has been secured after the federal government agreed to fund a new home port for ...

Russia allocates $1 billion to complete Rossiya, a Leader-class nuclear icebreaker, with a 120 MW plant, doubling previous icebreaker levels.

The need for construction of specialized ships to clear the path in the ice appeared in the mid-18th century. The first icebreaker was a wheeled steamer that cleared ice in the harbor of Philadelphia.

Specialists at Russia’s Baltic Plant (BZ – Balkisky Zavod) in St Petersburg together with representatives of co-operating ...

In a significant geopolitical and economic development, India has outpaced China to secure a contract to build four ...

The Royal Navy’s icebreaker swapped its usual polar scientific operations for high-intensity boarding drills and naval ...

The conservancy that oversees a storied but aging ocean liner and its landlord have resolved a years-old rent dispute that will clear the way for a Florida county to turn the historic ship into the ...