During a storm in the Southern Atlantic in March 2001, a rogue wave caused heavy damage, even breaking a window on the bridge.

In 2006 she successfully ran the Northwest Passage,[5] helped by satellite images telling where sea ice was.

In July 2018, a crew member shot and killed a polar bear in the Svalbard archipelago.

[6] In January 2019 the ship was sold to Scylla AG with a planned handover date of May 2021.

[7] In July 2020, Hapag Lloyd Cruises announced that Bremen had been chartered to Havila Kystruten.