In 2007 Prysmian was awarded 100% supply of the marine cables needed for AKER YARDS' greatest project, the GENESIS Cruise vessel, the largest ocean liner in history. Ordered by AKER’s customer, Royal Caribbean; with a length of 360 metres, a breadth of 47m, a passenger capacity of 5,400 people and a gross tonnage of 220,000TN, this ship is 40% bigger than the largest cruise liner series already in existence, the Freedom class cruiser.. The GENESIS Cruiser is to be delivered and will commence operations in 2009. Prysmian has been awarded with the supply of all cables required for this ship, a total of around 5,000km of cables including power and telecommunications cables, most to be manufactured at Prysmian’s Finland Pikkala site, but also in Italy and Germany.