It is no surprise to see Maria Angelicoussis beginning to play a weighty role in the company with which she shares a name.

Maran, established in 1992 as her family’s oil carrier outfit, is an acronym of her name and that of her father John’s mother.

It was telling of the dominant role that John Angelicoussis intended for his daughter to play eventually that in 2018 he turned Maran into the single brand name used across the company’s separate arms for tankers, gas carriers and dry bulkers.