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Coast Guard, Partners Assessing Options For More Polar Icebreaking Capacity

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, December 3rd, 2020

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Coast Guard, Partners Assessing Options For More Polar Icebreaking Capacity

Artist rendering of the Polar Security Cutter. Image by Halter Marine and Technology Associates.

The Coast Guard and its partners are assessing options for additional polar icebreaking capacity in the next decade beyond current plans pursuant to a directive from the Trump administration, Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz said on Thursday. The Coast Guard’s current polar strategy calls for six new icebreakers, at least three of them heavy, and one immediately, and now “The good news is there’s been a conversation beyond the 6-3-1 strategy,” Schultz said during a virtual address hosted by…

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