
Reaching out to industry, the Coast Guard has issued a Request for Information (RFI) for commercial heavy polar icebreaker designs and the capability of industry in the United States to build such a ship. The Coast Guard currently has two sea going icebreakers, the medium breaker Healy and the heavy breaker Polar Star, which recently reentered service. There is increasing interest in the United States, particularly in Congress, for the Coast Guard to have additional heavy icebreaking capabilities for the…