{"id":25205,"date":"2025-09-16T15:57:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/25205\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T15:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:57:06","slug":"arctic-icebreaker-ships-are-in-high-demand-as-nations-vie-for-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/25205\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Icebreaker Ships Are in High Demand as Nations Vie for Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">At a shipyard in Finland last month, workers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-08-20\/finnish-shipyard-starts-building-canada-s-newest-icebreaker?sref=XCtcbqbo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">cut the first steel<\/a> for a new icebreaker ship. Over the next three years, about 10,000 tons of the metal will go into the hull before the vessel is carried across the ocean to Quebec for completion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The CCGS Arpatuuq, expected to launch in 2030, will be the first heavy icebreaker built \u2014 at least partly \u2014 in Canada in more than half a century. The C$3.3 billion ($2.4 billion) ship will be 139 meters (about 450 feet) long, with a helipad, hangar and room for 100 crew members. \u201cMoon pools\u201d located at midship will provide direct access to the Arctic Ocean for polar research and, potentially, military surveillance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At a shipyard in Finland last month, workers cut the first steel for a new icebreaker ship. Over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[21405,289,21406,15704,114,2127,11507,246,8019,18447,61,60,1650,3589,82,12739],"class_list":["post-25205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-aker-arctic-technology-oy","tag-canada","tag-chantier-davie-canada-inc","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-china","tag-construction","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-environment","tag-finland","tag-green","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-politics","tag-russia","tag-science","tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}