She was acquired in 2022[2] by Grandi Navi Veloci from Brittany Ferries for an undisclosed amount.

On 1 January 2015, the EU (including the North Sea, English Channel, Eastern side of the Western Channel and Baltic Sea) had a sulphur in marine fuel cut from the allowance in 2014 of 1% to 0.1% of sulphur allowed, Brittany Ferries then abundantly announced in January 2014 that they were going to fit scrubbers to a number of elder vessels, convert newer vessels to LNG and construct a new LNG powered ferry but Brittany Ferries later withdrew and cancelled the order and the LNG conversions, instead they announced that all vessels were to have scrubbers systems fitted.

Normandie was the first vessel in the fleet to have these installed at the Astillero shipyard in Santander in late 2014 re-entering service in January 2015.

She was ordered in July 1998, alongside sister ship MS Superfast VI and another pair for Baltic sea services, Superfast VII and VIII[4] In March 2010 Brittany Ferries purchased the ship from Attica Group for €82 million to expand Spanish services.

In early 2022, GNV bought the 'Cap Finistère' from Brittany Ferries for an undisclosed amount.