hot Dejan de la Villette leaves Malta bound for the Italian island of Sicily 120 kilometres away [Music] weather permitting the 52 thousand horsepower ferry takes less than two hours for the crossing on the open sea the 1500 ton catamaran can reach a speed of up to 42 knots that's 75 kilometers an hour this extreme performance is achieved through its 4 MTU series 8000 diesel engines [Music] MTU series 8000 consists of 20 cylinder common-rail diesel engines each unit is 7 meters long 2 metres wide and three and a half meters high roughly the same