United Kingdom, Jan. 28 -- The Singapore shipbuilder Strategic Marine has commissioned a series of three new offshore supply vessels with a maximum speed of over 53 knots - the fastest of their kind in the world. Each vessel is powered by four 16-cylinder mtu Series 2000M72 engines from Rolls-Royce. The vessels will be used by a national oil company in Africa for passenger transfer to offshore platforms and Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessels.To enable fast and safe passenger transfer to offshore platforms, the 35-meter-long vessels have been designed as so-called "Surface Effect Ships" (SES). SES uses air-cushion technology within a catamaran hull form. This design was used for the first time in the offshore oil and gas ind...