KVH Link
The life of a commercial seafarer no longer means being disconnected from life on shore. Improve your crew recruitment and retention and improve crew wellbeing with best-in-class content, including the latest movies, television, sports, news, music radio, podcasts, karaoke, and more.
KVH Link brings seafarers treasured connections to home, easily and affordably, through daily news updates, favourite movies, TV, music and the thrill of sports.
- Easy to active and install. Bringing KVH Link content onboard is simple and quick thanks to over-the-air activation.
- Licensed and cybersecure. KVH Link content is licensed from copyright holders for crew viewing.
- Cost-effective bundles designed to suit your crewās entertainment preferences without impacting your data plan.
- Versatile options enable group viewing via a laptop or via the KVH Link Android or iOS smartphone apps.
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Seafarers live in a very unique environment, so for them to have entertainment onboard is something that brings the morale of the crew high, allow them to have a good evening after a hard days work and allow them to be more productive the next day.
Capt. Belal Ahmed, Western Shipping
Benefits of KVH Link
Wellbeing
āInternet connectivity has been said to have a strong effect on the mental well-being of seafarers.ā
āĀ ILO (International Labour Organization)
Recruitment
āThe access to Internet connection aboard a ship is a significant factor for young seafarersā decisions to pursue this career.ā
āĀ ILO (International Labour Organization)
Retention
āInadequate communication with their family and friends,ā is reported as a major reason crew abandon their career at sea.
āĀ Safety-4-Sea
Easy to Install
Bringing KVH Link content onboard is simple and efficient, thanks to over-the-air activation. Supported on KVH VSAT antennas, the only additional hardware is the Link Set-top Box, which crew can install themselves.
Great Content
There is always something new to discover as KVH Link content is constantly refreshed with the latest releases. Viewing is unlimited and KVH Link can be experienced by crew, individually or in a group; any time.
Cybersecure
KVH Link content is licensed for crew use in compliance with international copyright laws. Our patented IP-MobileCastā¢ service reduces cyberthreats by securely delivering encrypted content onboard.
Improve Wellbeing & Crew Retention
with the Best Content
Experience the Many Benefits of NEWSlink
Keep your crew up to date with news from home and around the world, provided by NEWSlinkā¢,Ā the leading international news service for seafarers. NEWSlink delivers daily news reviews, updates and special interest items in video, audio, and text, with content from a wide range of countries and languages.
- Vessels equipped with KVH VSAT service can receive NEWSlink at sea, via IP-MobileCastā¢,Ā without affecting the communications system’s performance or monthly data usage
- Our traditional printed NEWSlink service offers an extensive choice of daily newspapers for vessels with low bandwidth. Papers are sent directly to your ships via email for easy onboard printing in standard A4 format to distribute amongst your crew
- A simple, effective daily crew welfare service, proven to help lift crew morale by delivering news from home and around the world
- Supports seafarer manpower strategies and crew retention; helps to fulfill MLC-2006 compliance and make you an employer of choice
- Valued by seafarers for more than 30 years
- Printed news in 65+ national seafarer news editions in 20+ languages, plus monthly special interest papers
MOVIElink
Delight in blockbuster films delivered as soon as they are available, sometimes while they are still in cinemas, and months before they can be streamed at home. MOVIElink’sā¢Ā expanding library of films includes both the biggest Hollywood hits along with regional content curated with seafarers in mind.
Note: * Designates big hit
*Adarna Gang | The Adults | Always | Amsterdam | And I Love You So | Antlers |
Armageddon Time | Asteroid City | Atlas | Avatar: The Way of Water | Babylon | Bandit |
The Banshees of Inisherin | Barbarian | The Black Demon | Black Lotus | The Black Phone | *BlackBerry |
Bloody Hell | *The Boogeyman | Bros | Champions | Cherry | *Chevalier (2022) |
Christmas With the Campbells | Cocaine Bear | The Contractor | The Covenant | Creed III | Dealing With Dad |
Dear Zoe | Death on the Nile | La derniĆØre reine | La Deuxieme | Devil’s Peak | Dog |
Don’t Look Deeper | Drishyam | *Dumb Money | Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves | Electric Jesus | Empire of Light |
The Enforcer | EO | The Exchange | *The Exorcist: Believer | The Fabelmans | Faith Based |
Fall | Fast X | Ferrari: Race to Immortality | Fisherman’s Friends: One and All | Flux Gourmet | Free Guy |
The French Dispatch | The Good, The Bad, and The Dead | Halloween Ends | Hit & Run (2019) | The Humanity Bureau | I gefsi tis agapis |
India Sweets and Spices | Inside | Ittu Si Baat | Jelgava ’94 | Jurassic World Dominion | Kannum Kannum Kollaiadithaal |
Keening Woman | The King’s Man | Knock at the Cabin | The Last Duel | The Last Five Years (2022) | Last Looks |
Last Seen Alive | Last Sentinel | *The Last Voyage of the Demeter | The Locksmith | Long Story Short | Lucknow Central |
M3GAN | Magic Mountains | Mary Kom | Mean Spirited | Medieval | Memory |
The Menu | The Merciful | *A Million Miles Away | *Motichoor Chaknachoor | The Night House | Nightmare Alley |
Nope | The Northman | Novembre | Of Love and Wine | The Offering | On the Line |
*Oppenheimer | Paint | Panama | Patchwork | The People We Hate at the Wedding | Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game |
Poker Face | *Polite Society | Prasini thalassa | Pretending I’m a Superman: The Tony Hawk Video Game Story | Prime Orbit | Puss in Boots: The Last Wish |
Queen | Renfield | Reroute | Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World | Rogue Agent | Ron’s Gone Wrong |
Rooftop | Rouleman | Ruby’s Choice | Saf | Savage Salvation | See How They Run |
She Said | Shotgun Wedding | Simulant | Something from Tiffany’s | Song Lang | Spinning Gold |
Spravzhnii Santa | Steel Country | The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry | *Strays | The Super Mario Bros. Movie | TƔr |
*Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem | There Are No Saints | *A Thousand and One | Ticket to Paradise | Till | To Catch a Killer |
*Tokyo Revengers | *Transformers: Rise of the Beasts | Transfusion | The Trap | The Tutor | The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry |
Vanad ja kobedad saavad jalad alla | Vesper | Violent Night | Violet | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story | The Whale |
When You Finish Saving the World | Where’s Rose | Who Invited Charlie? | Wildflower | Ya budu ryadom | |
TVlink
Enjoy full seasons of the most popular hit television series so crews can enjoy the best entertainment from home.
Note: * Designates big hit
700 Sharks |
Asteroid Chasers |
Balearic’s Wild Secrets |
Beyond the Dark |
Building Arnold Schwarzenegger |
Building Greener Cities |
Cheetah, Hunter Becomes Prey |
Cinquante nuances de requins |
Dark Winds |
Date with Nature |
The Deep Med |
Doomsday |
Dr Jack and Mr Nicholson |
En Immersion |
Fantastic Mr Murray |
The Feast of the Killer Whales |
*The Fire Under the Sea |
Firebite |
Girl Gamer |
The Holiday |
*Inside Web3 Gaming |
Interview With the Vampire |
The Kapil Sharma Show |
Mad Mel and Mr Gibson |
Magical Egypt |
*Moonhaven |
The Mystery of the Pink Dolphin |
Namaste Yoga |
Pantheon |
The Poles Revealed |
*Resident Alien |
The Reunion |
Travel by Dart |
The Underwater Volcano |
Van Damme: Split Personality |
We Need to Talk |
The Latest in Top Sports from Around the World
- Game highlights, news, analysis, plays of the week, interviews, sports shows, and more
- Licensed content from leading teams and networks from around the world
- SPORTSlink Stats offers detailed sports statistics at the league and event level
- A variety of sports to satisfy all crew members, including basketball, football, cricket, boxing, tennis, and more
- A simple, proven, and effective crew welfare benefit
SPORTSlink Stats
SPORTSlink Stats offers crew a deep dive into sports statistics at the league and event level.
MUSIClink
KVH Link offers more than 15 genres of fresh music radio, podcasts, entertainment news, karaoke, and more, easily played via the streamlined, user-friendly interface, and all constantly updated. Some examples:
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Donāt Miss Out on Great Entertainment
Donāt have a KVH VSAT system onboard?
Have a fleet with multiple VSAT providers?
KVH Link content is also available via other delivery mechanisms.
The Power of Multicast Technology
IP-MobileCastā¢Ā is KVH’s patented content delivery service that uses multicast technology to deliver our KVH Link content efficiently so you can provide entertainment, news and sports for crew with no impact on your monthly data allowance.
- KVH Link is delivered by our unique IP-MobileCastĀ (IPMC) multicast service to KVH VSAT antennas. This enables KVH to deliver large amounts of secure content to many ships at once, over unused bandwidth, without slowing down onboard Internet speeds or registering usage against your monthly data plan.
- IP-MobileCast employs an “over-the-top” delivery mechanism using idle network bandwidth and a separate data stream. As a result, KVH can deliver as much as 500 GB of news, sports and entertainment content per month to each vessel without using the ship’s data plan or affecting onboard speeds.
- Content is cached on KVH’s TracPhone Integrated CommBox Modem (ICM) or TracNet Hub+ where it is accessible to crew via TVs in the common areas as well as via personal devices for latency-free access for ships with up to 50 crew.
- Convenient free apps for Android and iOS, and the IP-MobileCast website allow your crew to view all content on their own smartphone, tablet, or notebook as well.
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