Davie integrates ship design, construction, conversion, repair and lifecycle services. Its Coast Guard portfolio includes delivered interim-icebreaker conversions, the heavy CCGS Arpatuuq under construction and six contracted Program Icebreakers. Naval examples include the Asterix conversion and completed HMCS Harry DeWolf refit; replacement-ferry design is a separate civilian programme. These records establish different contract and delivery stages rather than a uniformly delivered newbuild fleet.
Technical detail
Core features
Program Icebreaker basic, functional and production design for six planned Polar Class 3 vessels
Vendor Program Icebreaker design particulars: 114.9 m length, 21.2 m maximum breadth, 7.6 m draft, 68 personnel, 20,000 nm at 11 knots and 3 knots in 1.4 m ice; design values, not trial results
Arpatuuq workshare combines Finnish hull construction with Québec accommodation and completion, separate from the six-vessel programme
Arpatuuq electric propulsion/power integration includes ABB’s 18 MW Azipod package, shaftline motor, generators, drives, shore connection and LTO batteries; 18 MW is not stated total ship power
Conversion, repair, maintenance, logistics, in-service support and vessel life extension through the vessel lifecycle
Lorne Dock Naval Maintenance Centre supports refit work; Trident confirms Harry DeWolf’s May 2026 return following ten months at Davie
Hybrid diesel-electric polar-icebreaker construction offering; generic catalogue limits are not assigned to a vessel or treated as demonstrated performance
Shipbuilding
Icebreakers
Vessel-conversion
Repair-and-refit
Lifecycle-support
Use & integration
Recorded applications
Government icebreaker design and construction
Naval conversion and fleet sustainment
Passenger-ferry design and other commercial maritime projects
These describe the reviewed application scope, not confirmed deployments, released requirements or procurement eligibility.
Evidence of maturity
Delivered work includes three converted Coast Guard icebreakers and Harry DeWolf’s 2026 refit. Arpatuuq is under construction, Canadian production started March 2026 and delivery is expected in 2030. The six-ship August 2026 award precedes design and construction, planned from 2027 with first delivery in 2032 and fleet service by 2038.
Commercial availability
Six Program Icebreakers: C$11.3 billion excluding taxes, fixed-price design/build contract. Arpatuuq: separate C$3.25 billion design/build plus C$14.3 million ancillary contract. Ferry work is at design stages pending construction contracts. Programme participation does not guarantee supplier awards or delivered vessels.
Integration and verification
Readiness
A technology readiness level is not established by the reviewed public sources.
Reviewed connections
No reviewed Mission area or released Defence need connection is currently published.
Original sources 15 linked records
These records support this capability and its published Mission area and Defence need connections. A source count is not a count of independent confirmations.
Davie offers concept/design/construction/conversion/repair/maintenance/sustainment to end of life, combining logistics,in-service support and vessel life extension. Its Naval Maintenance Centre of Excellence uses the Lorne Dock for frigate refits.
Supports: Capability · core features
Davie offers concept/design/construction/conversion/repair/maintenance/sustainment to end of life, combining logistics,in-service support and vessel life extension. Its Naval Maintenance Centre of Excellence uses the Lorne Dock for frigate refits.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Davie offers concept/design/construction/conversion/repair/maintenance/sustainment to end of life, combining logistics,in-service support and vessel life extension. Its Naval Maintenance Centre of Excellence uses the Lorne Dock for frigate refits.
Supports: Capability · core features
Davie offers concept/design/construction/conversion/repair/maintenance/sustainment to end of life, combining logistics,in-service support and vessel life extension. Its Naval Maintenance Centre of Excellence uses the Lorne Dock for frigate refits.
Canada records an August 24, 2026 design/build award to Chantier Davie Canada Inc. for six Program Icebreakers, CAD11.3 billion excluding taxes. Basic, functional and production designs are the next work; no completed vessels are asserted.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Canada records an August 24, 2026 design/build award to Chantier Davie Canada Inc. for six Program Icebreakers, CAD11.3 billion excluding taxes. Basic, functional and production designs are the next work; no completed vessels are asserted.
Davie markets hybrid diesel-electric polar icebreaker construction for sustained Arctic operations.
Supports: Capability · core features
Davie’s generic polar-icebreaker product page describes a hybrid diesel-electric offering. It advertises 2.5 m icebreaking and two helicopters without a speed/test condition or explicit current vessel configuration; those figures are not assigned to Arpatuuq or the Program Icebreakers.
Public Services and Procurement Canada's public evidence confirms a company-specific project, award, program or operating context, while configuration-specific acceptance and scale remain bounded by the reviewer warning.
Public sources cited · Facts and assessments kept separate · Human review
Canada awarded Davie the design-and-build contract for six Program Icebreakers on August 24, 2026; the stated value is C$11.3 billion excluding taxes. Program Icebreaker work proceeds through basic, functional and production design; the award is not a delivered fleet. The six vessels are intended for icebreaking, navigation aids, rescue, environmental response, northern resupply and vessel traffic services.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Canada records an August 24, 2026 design/build award to Chantier Davie Canada Inc. for six Program Icebreakers, CAD11.3 billion excluding taxes. Basic, functional and production designs are the next work; no completed vessels are asserted.
Supports: Capability · technology readiness level
Canada awarded Davie the design-and-build contract for six Program Icebreakers on August 24, 2026; the stated value is C$11.3 billion excluding taxes. Program Icebreaker work proceeds through basic, functional and production design; the award is not a delivered fleet. The six vessels are intended for icebreaking, navigation aids, rescue, environmental response, northern resupply and vessel traffic services.
Supports: Capability · core features
Canada records an August 24, 2026 design/build award to Chantier Davie Canada Inc. for six Program Icebreakers, CAD11.3 billion excluding taxes. Basic, functional and production designs are the next work; no completed vessels are asserted.
Supports: Capability · capability type
Canada awarded Davie the design-and-build contract for six Program Icebreakers on August 24, 2026; the stated value is C$11.3 billion excluding taxes. Program Icebreaker work proceeds through basic, functional and production design; the award is not a delivered fleet. The six vessels are intended for icebreaking, navigation aids, rescue, environmental response, northern resupply and vessel traffic services.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Canada awarded Davie the design-and-build contract for six Program Icebreakers on August 24, 2026; the stated value is C$11.3 billion excluding taxes. Program Icebreaker work proceeds through basic, functional and production design; the award is not a delivered fleet. The six vessels are intended for icebreaking, navigation aids, rescue, environmental response, northern resupply and vessel traffic services.
Supports: Capability · commercial availability
Canada records an August 24, 2026 design/build award to Chantier Davie Canada Inc. for six Program Icebreakers, CAD11.3 billion excluding taxes. Basic, functional and production designs are the next work; no completed vessels are asserted.
Supports: Capability · commercial availability
Canada awarded Davie the design-and-build contract for six Program Icebreakers on August 24, 2026; the stated value is C$11.3 billion excluding taxes. Program Icebreaker work proceeds through basic, functional and production design; the award is not a delivered fleet. The six vessels are intended for icebreaking, navigation aids, rescue, environmental response, northern resupply and vessel traffic services.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Canada awarded Davie the design-and-build contract for six Program Icebreakers on August 24, 2026; the stated value is C$11.3 billion excluding taxes. Program Icebreaker work proceeds through basic, functional and production design; the award is not a delivered fleet. The six vessels are intended for icebreaking, navigation aids, rescue, environmental response, northern resupply and vessel traffic services.
Supports: Capability · name
Canada awarded Davie the design-and-build contract for six Program Icebreakers on August 24, 2026; the stated value is C$11.3 billion excluding taxes. Program Icebreaker work proceeds through basic, functional and production design; the award is not a delivered fleet. The six vessels are intended for icebreaking, navigation aids, rescue, environmental response, northern resupply and vessel traffic services.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Canada awarded Davie the design-and-build contract for six Program Icebreakers on August 24, 2026; the stated value is C$11.3 billion excluding taxes. Program Icebreaker work proceeds through basic, functional and production design; the award is not a delivered fleet. The six vessels are intended for icebreaking, navigation aids, rescue, environmental response, northern resupply and vessel traffic services.
Supports: Capability · technology readiness level
Canada records an August 24, 2026 design/build award to Chantier Davie Canada Inc. for six Program Icebreakers, CAD11.3 billion excluding taxes. Basic, functional and production designs are the next work; no completed vessels are asserted.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Canada awarded Davie the design-and-build contract for six Program Icebreakers on August 24, 2026; the stated value is C$11.3 billion excluding taxes. Program Icebreaker work proceeds through basic, functional and production design; the award is not a delivered fleet. The six vessels are intended for icebreaking, navigation aids, rescue, environmental response, northern resupply and vessel traffic services.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
Canada awarded Davie the design-and-build contract for six Program Icebreakers on August 24, 2026; the stated value is C$11.3 billion excluding taxes. Program Icebreaker work proceeds through basic, functional and production design; the award is not a delivered fleet. The six vessels are intended for icebreaking, navigation aids, rescue, environmental response, northern resupply and vessel traffic services.
Supports: Capability · core features
Canada awarded Davie the design-and-build contract for six Program Icebreakers on August 24, 2026; the stated value is C$11.3 billion excluding taxes. Program Icebreaker work proceeds through basic, functional and production design; the award is not a delivered fleet. The six vessels are intended for icebreaking, navigation aids, rescue, environmental response, northern resupply and vessel traffic services.
Supports: Capability · maturity
Canada awarded Davie the design-and-build contract for six Program Icebreakers on August 24, 2026; the stated value is C$11.3 billion excluding taxes. Program Icebreaker work proceeds through basic, functional and production design; the award is not a delivered fleet. The six vessels are intended for icebreaking, navigation aids, rescue, environmental response, northern resupply and vessel traffic services.
Supports: Capability · commercial availability
Chantier Davie Canada currently presents Large-vessel construction and sustainment through its official public capability surface.
Supports: Capability · name
Large-vessel construction and sustainment
Supports: Capability · summary
Builds and sustains complex government vessels, including heavy icebreakers, from its Lévis shipyard.
Supports: Capability · capability type
Source-bounded strategic technology capability
Supports: Capability · core features
Large-vessel construction and conversion
Supports: Capability · technical tags
True North Map applies the shipbuilding tag from Chantier Davie Canada's documented capability functions.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Government-fleet sustainment This bounded statement is retained for reviewer verification.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Polar icebreaker construction This bounded statement is retained for reviewer verification.
Davie's CCGS Arpatuuq is in construction: the hull is being built at Helsinki and accommodation work at the Quebec yard; expected delivery is 2030. Canadian production for the Arpatuuq project started at Chantier Davie in March 2026, alongside Finnish hull construction.
Supports: Capability · summary
Canada identifies the future CCGS Arpatuuq as Davie’s separate polar icebreaker: CAD3.25 billion design/build contract plus CAD14.3 million ancillary contract; hull construction in Helsinki and accommodation construction in Québec; Canadian production started March2026; delivery expected2030.
Supports: Capability · core features
Canada identifies the future CCGS Arpatuuq as Davie’s separate polar icebreaker: CAD3.25 billion design/build contract plus CAD14.3 million ancillary contract; hull construction in Helsinki and accommodation construction in Québec; Canadian production started March2026; delivery expected2030.
Supports: Capability · core features
Davie's CCGS Arpatuuq is in construction: the hull is being built at Helsinki and accommodation work at the Quebec yard; expected delivery is 2030. Canadian production for the Arpatuuq project started at Chantier Davie in March 2026, alongside Finnish hull construction.
Supports: Capability · summary
Davie's CCGS Arpatuuq is in construction: the hull is being built at Helsinki and accommodation work at the Quebec yard; expected delivery is 2030. Canadian production for the Arpatuuq project started at Chantier Davie in March 2026, alongside Finnish hull construction.
Supports: Capability · commercial availability
Canada identifies the future CCGS Arpatuuq as Davie’s separate polar icebreaker: CAD3.25 billion design/build contract plus CAD14.3 million ancillary contract; hull construction in Helsinki and accommodation construction in Québec; Canadian production started March2026; delivery expected2030.
Supports: Capability · maturity
Canada identifies the future CCGS Arpatuuq as Davie’s separate polar icebreaker: CAD3.25 billion design/build contract plus CAD14.3 million ancillary contract; hull construction in Helsinki and accommodation construction in Québec; Canadian production started March2026; delivery expected2030.
Trident reports HMCS Harry DeWolf returned to Halifax on May14,2026 after its first five-year-cycle refit at Chantier Davie in Lévis; the ship had been away ten months. This confirms completed refit work, not a five-year duration.
Supports: Capability · maturity
Trident reports HMCS Harry DeWolf returned to Halifax on May14,2026 after its first five-year-cycle refit at Chantier Davie in Lévis; the ship had been away ten months. This confirms completed refit work, not a five-year duration.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Trident reports HMCS Harry DeWolf returned to Halifax on May14,2026 after its first five-year-cycle refit at Chantier Davie in Lévis; the ship had been away ten months. This confirms completed refit work, not a five-year duration.
Supports: Capability · summary
Trident reports HMCS Harry DeWolf returned to Halifax on May14,2026 after its first five-year-cycle refit at Chantier Davie in Lévis; the ship had been away ten months. This confirms completed refit work, not a five-year duration.
Supports: Capability · core features
Trident reports HMCS Harry DeWolf returned to Halifax on May14,2026 after its first five-year-cycle refit at Chantier Davie in Lévis; the ship had been away ten months. This confirms completed refit work, not a five-year duration.
Canada’s August24,2026 release specifies all six Program Icebreakers built in Lévis with Canadian steel/materials; construction starts2027,first ship2032 and fleet in service2038 are forecasts. Nearly5000 construction-phase jobs and CAD650m annual GDP are projected economic impacts, not Davie headcount or sales.
Supports: Capability · core features
Buyer identifies the six Program Icebreakers as planned Polar Class3 vessels for winter Atlantic/StLawrence and summerArctic icebreaking,SAR,environmental response,northern resupply and science. They are separate from Davie’s heavy Polar Max contract.
Coast Guard confirms Vincent Massey delivery October17,2022 after Davie conversion,following Molly Kool2018 and Jean Goodwill2020. Three-vessel purchase-and-conversion total CAD912.5m includes acquired hulls. VincentMassey work added accommodation/heavy-lift crane,icebreaking/endurance and regulatory/operational adaptations.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Coast Guard confirms Vincent Massey delivery October17,2022 after Davie conversion,following Molly Kool2018 and Jean Goodwill2020. Three-vessel purchase-and-conversion total CAD912.5m includes acquired hulls. VincentMassey work added accommodation/heavy-lift crane,icebreaking/endurance and regulatory/operational adaptations.
Supports: Capability · summary
Coast Guard confirms Vincent Massey delivery October17,2022 after Davie conversion,following Molly Kool2018 and Jean Goodwill2020. Three-vessel purchase-and-conversion total CAD912.5m includes acquired hulls. VincentMassey work added accommodation/heavy-lift crane,icebreaking/endurance and regulatory/operational adaptations.
Davie announced on August 24, 2026 a C$11.3 billion fixed-price contract for design and construction of six Canadian Coast Guard Program Icebreakers. This is contract value, not funding raised or recognized revenue.
Davie reports completion in 2017 of the conversion of a European-built containership into Asterix, a Resolve Class combat support vessel for naval replenishment and humanitarian/disaster-relief uses. This establishes a conversion example, not ownership of the fleet-service contract.
Supports: Capability · summary
Davie reports completion in 2017 of the conversion of a European-built containership into Asterix, a Resolve Class combat support vessel for naval replenishment and humanitarian/disaster-relief uses. This establishes a conversion example, not ownership of the fleet-service contract.
Transport Canada’s2025 briefing divides replacement ferries into preliminary design/ClassC cost,basic design/ClassB cost,and construction contract. Holiday IslandII preliminary design and preferred propulsion/cargo-access/HVAC/accommodation equipment selection had advanced; precise delivery dates await construction contracts. Jean-Lapierre preliminary work is also named.
Supports: Capability · summary
Transport Canada’s2025 briefing divides replacement ferries into preliminary design/ClassC cost,basic design/ClassB cost,and construction contract. Holiday IslandII preliminary design and preferred propulsion/cargo-access/HVAC/accommodation equipment selection had advanced; precise delivery dates await construction contracts. Jean-Lapierre preliminary work is also named.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Transport Canada’s2025 briefing divides replacement ferries into preliminary design/ClassC cost,basic design/ClassB cost,and construction contract. Holiday IslandII preliminary design and preferred propulsion/cargo-access/HVAC/accommodation equipment selection had advanced; precise delivery dates await construction contracts. Jean-Lapierre preliminary work is also named.
Vendor planned Program Icebreaker particulars: 114.9m length,21.2m maximum breadth,7.6m draft,68 crew/program personnel,20,000nm at11knots and3knots in1.4m ice,one medium CCG helicopter. These are design specifications rather than trial results.
ABB reports a Helsinki Shipyard contract for Polar Max’s electric power/propulsion integration:18MW Azipod power plus shaftline motor,drives,transformers,generators,switchboards,shore connection,LTO batteries,power/energy management and AX Bridge. Planned138.5m/22,800t vessel specifics are not six-ship Program Icebreaker particulars or sea-trial results.
