Over the next two decades, Davie Shipbuilding – an Inocea company – will replace the entire Canadian heavy icebreaker fleet, under the government’s National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS). This generational $8.5bn, seven-ship work program will supply Canada with the world’s most modern and second-largest national icebreaker fleet. The National Icebreaker Centre, created in August 2020, will become a global hub and future exporter of icebreaking and high ice-class technologies. The Arctic is increasingly a geopolitical hotbed and one of the world’s most important future locations in terms of environmental protection, trade, resources, socioeconomic development and national defence. Our R&D into sustainable icebreaking technologies alongside the construction of the new polar fleet for Canada, will place us at the very forefront of this highly-demanded sector. Visit the National Icebreaker Centre. www.icebreakercentre.ca
