Breaking through Arctic ice isn't about brute force collisions — it's about clever hull geometry and letting gravity do the ...

The icebreaker Aiviq is a gas guzzler with a troubled history. The ship was built to operate in the Arctic, but it has a type of propulsion system susceptible to failure in ice. Its waste and ...

After developing the technique some five years ago, Aker Arctic has now completed the research required to get its new design methodology for icebreaker hulls accepted into the Finish-Swedish Ice ...

Superyachts are the stuff of dreams and there’s no doubt about the nature of their design: it just continues to push out larger and more sophisticated vessels. We have seen support, research, and ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Arktika-class comes equipped with a bubbler system that shoots jets of hot steam below the surface of the water. The Soviet Union was the original progenitor of ...

The Soviet Union was the original progenitor of Russia’s icebreakers. The first of the Arktika-class was built in the early 1970s, and the class was represented by 6 hulls, though most of the earlier ...