U.S. Coast Guard members and scientists exit Coast Guard Cutter Healy to walk on the ice for an ice survey north of Barrow, Alaska, on Oct. 2, 2018. (NyxoLyno Cangemi/U.S. Coast Guard)
An agreement between Finland, Canada, and the United States to jointly build icebreaker ships may hold the key to deeper cooperation between the Arctic nations, as Washington has set out to boost its fleet against Russian and Chinese efforts to ramp up their own, Defense News reports.
