would primarily be used on the Poole route. Despite the initial announcement that the ship would run to Santander at the weekend a decision had not been made at the time as to whether this will be the ships Spanish destination due to port fees. Other ports that were in the running to receive Cotentin were Bilbao and Gijon. On 21 July 2007 it was announced by Brittany Ferries that Cotentin would operate from Poole, a partially amended timetable for the Poole–Cherbourg route had been posted prior to the announcement though Cotentin sailings were absent until the delivery date was confirmed. The amendments allowed for Cotentins Poole–Santander weekend sailings. The 2008 timetable revealed on 12 September 2007 showed Cotentin entering service in mid-November 2007 on the Poole–Cherbourg route with services to Santander commencing shortly after. Initially the 2008 timetable showed that after Christmas Cotentin would move to the Caen route to provide refit cover for before returning to Poole. Her place on the Cherbourg and Santander route was to have been taken by . However, shortly after its release the timetable was edited and Cotentin remained on the Cherbourg and Santander routes throughout January. From mid-May 2008 Cotentin commenced the new summer timetable with sailings on the Cherbourg route carried out in 3 hours 45 minutes as opposed to the previous 4 hours 30 mins on Coutances. The crossing time was extended after a short time operating the new timetable as a fuel saving measure. Stena Line In 2013 Cotentin was chartered to Stena Line for their service between Karlskrona, Sweden and Gdynia, Poland. She was renamed Stena Baltica and transferred from French to British flag with London as port of registry. Return to Brittany Ferries Amid rumours that the vessel would return to Brittany Ferries after the charter to Stena Line expired at the end of October 2020, the vessel emerged from dry dock in Gdansk in Brittany Ferries' new livery. The ship later departed for Le Havre, where the vessel had its original name of Cotentin restored, and was reflagged back to Cherbourg, France. Cotentin was confirmed to re-enter service from January 2021, between Poole and Cherbourg, providing extra capacity as part of the company's Brexit capacity agreement with the UK Government. The vessel would move to the Portsmouth to Le Havre service in April 2021, replacing the . The latter would be returned to Stena RoRo, having