Commercial Catamarans for Hawaiian Inter-Island Transport

Two 107 meter or 351 foot catamaran ferries will be20 cylinder MTU 8000 Series engines. Each power
built for passenger and vehicle transportationplant will produce 8,200 Kilowatts or 10,995
between the Hawaiian Islands. One of the ferries ishorsepower and weigh 99,208 pounds.
well into its construction; it will be ready for deliveryEach one of the catamarans will have 4 of these
in the first half of 2007. The second ferry is in themonster sized engines which will be a total of 43,993
early stages of its build and should be set for deliveryhorsepower and 396,832 pounds just in engine
in the beginning of 2009.weight alone. The catamaran ferries will be the
These gargantuan catamarans will be for Hawaiilargest aluminum vessels ever built on U.S. soil.
Superferry (HSF). They will shuttle passengers fromThe first ship which will be completed in 2007 its four
Honolulu to Maui and Kauai in three hours and fromengines were installed three weeks ahead of
Honolulu to the Big Island in four hours.schedule which was a tremendous feat, given the
The mammoth catamarans will be able to sustain 866grandeur of this build. This will be Hawaii's first high
passengers and 282 vehicles. In order to move suchspeed vehicle passenger transport service.
an enormous load the catamarans will be fitted with