Secretive bulker owner Transmed Shipping has shown that its executives have a sense of humour, naming the biggest ship the company has ever purchased after one of the smallest fish.

The 319,900-dwt ore-oiler F Whale (built 2011), the last in a series of vessels originally ordered by Taiwanese owner Nobu Su, has now emerged in the Transmed fleet as the Atherina — the Greek word for smelt, a fish just 20 centimetres (7.9