KVH offers to subscribing customers maritime weather updates

MIDDLETOWN – Seafarers who subscribe to KVH Industries Inc.’s content delivery service IP-MobileCast now will have more access to weather reports.
The content delivery service now includes high-resolution updates from Applied Weather Technology, a marine weather service provider.
Subscribing vessels will receive global weather data four times per day via the KVH mini-VSAT Broadband network without incurring any data transmission costs, according to information from KVH.
This standard feature is now available to KVH mini-VSAT broadband customers who also are licensed users of AWT’s Bon Voyage System, an onboard application for weather rendering and voyage optimization. To begin receiving the weather updates, mini-VSAT Broadband customers need only subscribe at no monthly charge to the FORECASTlink channel of KVH’s IP-MobileCast service.
“As a weather-based, ship routing and vessel performance company, AWT is excited by this opportunity. We can deliver high-resolution weather data at every six-hour forecast interval, while collecting ship data from our customers for performance optimization,” Haydn Jones, AWT’s CEO, said in a statement.
The IP-MobileCast service also features news, entertainment, training and sports content for subscribing vessels at sea without affecting data transmission speeds or vessel communications performance.
“We are thrilled to be working with AWT to enable vessels to receive such high-quality weather information around the clock via our FORECASTlink channel,” Martin Kits van Heyningen, KVH’s CEO, said. “Weather data gives vessel operators essential information for voyage planning and route optimization, critical to their bottom lines, especially during these challenging economic times.”