KVH partners with Applied Weather Technology

MIDDLETOWN – KVH Industries Inc. announced Monday that Applied Weather Technology Inc., a marine industry leader in weather forecasting and ship routing, will be the company’s launch partner for KVH’s IP-MobileCast Weatherlink service.
KVH will use IP-MobileCast technology to deliver AWT’s high-resolution weather and ocean data to ships at sea for a low fixed monthly fee. The data, which includes forecasts with wind, wave, visibility and currents with tidal stream data, is updated up to four times per day to help ships optimize voyage planning and safety.
“Voyage planning and optimization are of paramount importance for mariners’ safety and also to meet new Marpol regulations that limit greenhouse gas emissions from ships,” says Martin Kits van Heyningen, CEO of KVH. “Due to these new regulations, shipping companies are facing new challenges, both with requirements to travel at slower speeds to reduce emissions, and with requirements for use of high-cost bunker in many coastal regions. AWT’s weather data and voyage planning services affordably delivered with IP-MobileCast will be of great value to help ship officers optimize their voyage plans.”
The IP-MobileCast service will support AWT’s recent release of the BonVoyage System 7, an onboard voyage optimization system with more than 5,000 ships already under contract. In addition to weather an ocean data, KVH’s content delivery service will also provide AWT’s detailed port vicinity forecasts as well as pirate attack information and rogue wave forecasts.
Weatherlink content delivery is scheduled to begin beta testing this month and will be commercially available by September. All installed KVH TracPhone V-IP series satellite communications systems will support this new content after a free over-the-air software upgrade.
Going forward, KVH plans to add additional content for its IP-MobileCast delivery system, including weekly electronic chart database updates from Jeppesen, KVH’s Chartlink partner.

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