KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq:KVHI), a leading provider of maritime
satellite television and communications systems, is delighted to
support the International Seafarers' Welfare and Assistance Network
(ISWAN) as sponsor of a London event this Thursday evening:
"Michael Grey, MBE, in Conversation with Rose George". George is
the author of the acclaimed book, "Deep Sea and Foreign Going:
Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings You 90% of
Everything", published in September 2013. Grey is a lecturer and
former ship master who received the MBE in 2000 for services to
maritime safety.
The private ISWAN event on 21 November will take place in an
appropriately maritime venue: The Ward Room of the HMS "President",
a former Royal Navy warship docked in London and converted to a
club and event space.
Book author Rose George spent five weeks on a containership
while researching "Deep Sea and Foreign Going", which describes the
challenging working conditions onboard commercial ships. Her book
has received attention both inside and outside the shipping
industry for raising awareness of seafarers' welfare.
"Seafarers are clearly essential to the shipping enterprise, but
they remain the buried secret in an already- hidden industry. In
our view, anything that highlights shipping, and especially the
working and living conditions onboard, to the wider community, is
worth its weight in gold", said Mark Woodhead, managing director of
KVH Media Group. "Rose George's book has created a real buzz in the
industry and we are immensely proud to sponsor this event, which
ties into our own business objectives to provide seafarers with
basic services that will assist them in the following areas:
communications with home, contact with each other, news, training,
personal development, and entertainment."
KVH's NewsLink™ digital newspapers and Crewtoo® social media
network, which are based in Liverpool, are leading providers of
maritime crew welfare services. NewsLink and Crewtoo were formerly
part of Headland Media, which was acquired by KVH Industries
earlier this year. Headland Media is now called KVH Media Group.
KVH Industries, Inc., has global headquarters in the United
States.
ISWAN, a U.K.-based organisation dedicated to promoting the
welfare of mariners and the implementation of the Maritime Labour
Convention (MLC) 2006 mandating crew welfare benefits, aims to use
the event to highlight its objectives and examine the welfare
issues facing crew.
KVH's content services provide key aspects of crew welfare that
meet MLC-2006 regulations. The NewsLink daily international
newspaper service delivers publications in 17 different languages
onboard 9,000 ships across the globe. In addition, Crewtoo is the
world's largest and most popular social media site dedicated to
seafarers, with 95,000 members worldwide.
"All of our maritime services, which additionally include
sports, movies, music, and training videos, provide a comprehensive
solution for commercial maritime companies striving to meet the new
requirements of MLC-2006", said Mr. Woodhead.
Additional information about KVH's news, sports, and movie
content is available on the company's website
www.kvhmediagroup.com.
About KVH Industries, Inc.
KVH Industries is a leading provider of in-motion satellite TV
and communications systems, having designed, manufactured, and sold
more than 175,000 mobile satellite antennas for applications on
vessels, vehicles, and aircraft. KVH is also a leading news, music,
and entertainment content provider to many industries including
maritime, retail, and leisure. In addition to NewsLink and Crewtoo,
KVH's maritime-industry brands include Walport® Maritime Training
Films and Walport Entertainment On-Board. KVH's mission is to
connect mobile customers around the globe with the same digital
television entertainment, communications, and Internet services
that they enjoy in their homes and offices. KVH is based in
Middletown, RI, U.S.A., with facilities in Illinois, Denmark,
Norway, the U.K., Singapore, the Philippines, Belgium, Holland,
Cyprus, and Japan.
This release contains forward-looking statements that involve
risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements include, for
example, statements regarding the functionality, characteristics,
quality, cost, and performance of KVH services and technology. The
actual results could differ materially from those expressed in the
forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause such differences
include, among others, access to sufficient and uninterrupted
satellite capacity to provide the service; uncertainty about the
scope of customer demand; and KVH's dependence on the availability
of third-party satellites and services to support broadcasts to
mobile antennas. These and other risk factors are discussed in more
detail in KVH's most recent Form 10-Q filed with the SEC. KVH does
not assume any obligation to update its forward-looking statements
to reflect new information or developments.
KVH, NewsLink, Crewtoo, and Walport are trademarks of KVH
Industries, Inc.
CONTACT: Sue Henney
Marketing Manager
KVH Media Group
+44 151 236 4124
shenney@kvh.com
Jill Connors
Media & Communications Manager
KVH Industries, Inc.
+1 401-851-3824
jconnors@kvh.com
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