Maria Angelicoussis told the story of how she agreed to join her late father, John Angelicoussis, for one year at the family shipping business in 2008 as a break from her work as a medical doctor.

She caught the shipping bug, and 13 years later is still there, and running the Angelicoussis Group business.

And the addition of veteran gas executive Sveinung Stohle as her second-in-command in the coming months does not signal any thoughts about her moving on from the company, Angelicoussis told delegates at the annual Marine Money ship finance forum in New York on Thursday.