in march 2007, "jean nicoli" made crossings from le havre to marseille, carrying cars on board. during april the same year, she was chartered to cotunav for traffic from italy and france to tunisia. at the end of april she was laid up, initially at la seyne, later at marseille. from 8 september until 2 october 2007 she was chartered to anek lines for service on its patras–corfu–igoumenitsa–venice route. on 27 december 2007, the ship was sold to seafrance.