Company History

Richard Cory started a business at Cardiff Docks which was called Richard Cory & Sons, shipbrokers and coal exporters.

Office’s are opened in London, Liverpool and Newcastle.

The partners began the acquisition of collieries in South Wales, soon establishing a substantial presence in that field of activity.

The business was registered as a private limited company.

With oil increasingly becoming a source of motive power on land as well as at sea. The company acquired the extensive property to become known as Coryton, at the mouth of the Thames and built an oil installation there.

By the end of the Second World War the company owned 16,000 acres of mineral rights, embracing all classes of coals. Annual output was in the region of 2m tons.

Powell Duffryn acquired Cory Brothers and Cory Brothers achieves 100 years of trading.

Coryton was sold but retains its name as the site of the Mobil oil refinery.

Cory celebrates its 150th Anniversary.

Cory launches its ShipTrak operations system, offering port agency, hub agency and client system access.

Cory awarded its first Major Hub contract handling some 4000 port calls per annum.

Powell Duffryn sold Cory Brothers to Braemar Seascope (now Braemar Shipping Services PLC).

Cory Brothers expands its agency representation with the acquisition of Sealion Shipping Singapore. The first wholly owned agency office outside of the UK in 40 years.

Cory Brothers (USA) Inc. opens in Houston servicing the whole US Gulf and providing agency services on the East and West Coast.

New USA offices opened in 2016

New management appointed:

Peter Wilson
Group Managing Director

Felixstowe office relocated to Ipswich 

Cory Brothers announce new JV business “VertomCory” with Vertom Agencies B.V