at the end of her charter to dfds seaways in november 2014, stena line took possession of the vessel returning her to her original name, albeit with a stena prefix, and sending her for an extensive refit to return the cargo arrangements to their original configuration and refurbish the interiors similar to sisterships "stena superfast vii" and "stena superfast viii" operating on the cairnryan (loch ryan) to belfast route. after refit the ship replaced "ms stena nordica" (which itself is being chartered to dfds seaways to take up the timetable "stena superfast x" previous operated) on the holyhead–dublin port route on 9 march 2015. "stena superfast x" substantially increased the freight and passenger capacity on the route and coincided with the withdrawal of the stena hss service to dún laoghaire.