Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN), a provider of ship-to-shore satellite communications, has signed an agreement to use capacity on New Skies Satellites‘ [NYSE: NSK] NSS-5 satellite over the Pacific Ocean.

Through NSS-5, MTN (Miramar, Fla.) will link cruise liners and offshore energy vessels in the Pacific Ocean with terrestrial communications networks in the United States. The communications links will enable fax, data, Internet and video transmissions for a variety of applications.

NSS-5, which was built by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems and deployed to 338.5 degrees East Longitude in 1997, was moved to 183 degrees East Longitude above the Pacific Ocean in December 2002.