Company History
Explore Cory's journey and key milestones over more than a 150 years
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1842
Richard Cory started a business at Cardiff Docks which was called Richard Cory & Sons, shipbrokers and coal exporters.
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1871
Office’s are opened in London, Liverpool and Newcastle.
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1884
The partners began the acquisition of collieries in South Wales, soon establishing a substantial presence in that field of activity.
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1888
The business was registered as a private limited company.
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1921
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.
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1930
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.
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1942
Powell Duffryn acquired Cory Brothers and Cory Brothers achieves 100 years of trading.
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1950
Coryton was sold but retains its name as the site of the Mobil oil refinery.
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1992
Cory celebrates its 150th Anniversary.
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2000
Cory launches its ShipTrak operations system, offering port agency, hub agency and client system access.
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2003
Cory awarded its first Major Hub contract handling some 4000 port calls per annum.
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2003
Powell Duffryn sold Cory Brothers to Braemar Seascope (now Braemar Shipping Services PLC).
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2009
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.
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2014
Cory Brothers (USA) Inc. opens in Houston servicing the whole US Gulf and providing agency services on the East and West Coast.
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2016
New USA offices opened in 2016
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2019
New management appointed:
Peter Wilson
Group Managing Director
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2019
Felixstowe office relocated to Ipswich
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2021
Cory Brothers announce new JV business “VertomCory” with Vertom Agencies B.V