taken 8 hours and cost thousands of euros but the high speed ferry is now ready once again to make the crossing to Malta the ship's engineer just has to give the green light then the team of fitters can call it a day the diesel engine can now look forward to a long service life these engines run virtually forever and ever under typical conditions we're talking about 70 mm to operating hours after that the engines are taken out and checked for wear and if everything is okay they are reassembled and put back into service