Seaspan Shipyards has entered into a contract with Ideal Welders for the fabrication of 30 blocks of the new heavy Polar Icebreaker that Seaspan is building for the Canadian Coast Guard.Seaspan and
Seaspan Shipyards has entered into a contract with Ideal Welders for the fabrication of 30 blocks of the new heavy Polar Icebreaker that Seaspan is building for the Canadian Coast Guard.
Seaspan and Ideal Welders have had a long-standing, successful partnership — Ideal Welders has constructed many components of the ships Seaspan has built, including the bulbous bows of both Joint Support Ships, HMCS Protecteur and HMCS Preserver.
Seaspan cut steel on the new Polar Icebreaker in April 2025. It will be the seventh vessel designed and built by Seaspan under the National Shipbuilding Strategy, the fifth Polar Class vessel to be built for the Canadian Coast Guard, and one of up to 21 icebreaking vessels overall that Seaspan is constructing.
Measuring approximately 158 meters in length and 28 meters in beam, the vessel will feature more than 40MW of installed power, specialized laboratories, a moon pool, a helicopter deck and hangar, and capacity for remotely piloted aircraft systems.
Once complete, it will be one of the world’s most capable Polar Class 2 icebreakers, enabling year-round operations in the Arctic.
A core tenet of the National Shipbuilding Strategy is to not only build ships, but to build a sustainable, domestic
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