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Capability profile
Seaspan designs, integrates and builds Coast Guard icebreakers and science vessels. Canada accepted its oceanographic science vessel CCGS Naalak Nappaaluk in November 2025. A separate CAD3.15-billion construction award covers one new polar icebreaker, whose build uses distributed Canadian fabrication and a domestic supplier network.
Complex government vessel construction
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Icebreakers and science vessels can carry personnel and sensors that support northern presence and observation, but the shipbuilding capability is an enabling platform rather than an awareness system.
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