Polar Icebreaker Project
Conceptual renderings of the future Canadian polar icebreaker built by Seaspan | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders | |
| Operators | Canadian Coast Guard |
| Cost | |
| Built | 2025– (planned) |
| In commission | 2030– (planned) |
| Planned | 2 |
| Building | 1 |
The Polar Icebreaker Project (previously Polar Class Icebreaker Project) is an ongoing Canadian shipbuilding program under the National Shipbuilding Strategy. Announced in 2008 with an intention to replace the ageing CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent with a new polar icebreaker by 2017, the program has faced multiple delays and changes, and as of 2025 consists of two planned icebreakers, CCGS Arpatuuq and CCGS Imnaryuaq, with the first vessel expected to enter service in 2030.