Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Tuesday that the United States, in partnership with Canada and Finland, agreed to build nearly a dozen new icebreaker ships to defend the Arctic.
Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman and Finnish Minister of Economic Affairs Sakari Puisto joined Noem at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters in Washington, D.C., to sign a joint statement of intent dubbed the Icebreaker Collaboration Effort (ICE Pact).
The JSOI builds upon the 2024 Memorandum of Understanding, in which the three countries initially came together to collectively design, build, and maintain best-in-class Arctic and polar vessels.
“Today is a major milestone in the race to security Arctic for all of our countries, the Arctic is the world’s last most wild frontier, and
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