When TCC was founded by my grandfather, the late Mr. C.S. Koo, in Shanghai back in 1917, the then cutting edge communication of automatic transmission of telegraphs was only three years old, and when the TCC name was reestablished in Hong Kong in 1983 by my late father, Mr. K.H. Koo and late uncle, Mr. K.W. Koo, the facsimile was deemed cutting edge communications technology. Today, two decades into the 21st Century, the internet represents communications technology which could barely be imagined even in the realms of science fiction in the final decades of the last Millennium.
So it is with this profound reflection of our Group’s history that I welcome you, honoured visitor, onto the TCC website, and to our more than century years old shipping enterprise. TCC was founded in Shanghai in 1917 as Tai Chong Hsiang Company, a customs brokerage firm that rendered services in connection with the import and exports of goods from entry and clearance documentation to issues on tariff and taxation. From our first baby steps into shipping in the 1920’s, when we owned and operated a fleet of passenger and general cargo vessels plying the coast of China and the Yangtze River to the 2.5 million deadweight tons of large bulk carriers and tankers plying the oceans of the world, we have never strayed from the core values and principles instituted by Mr. C.S. Koo which is building a reliable and solid enterprise with shipping as its core business, and run in a way that reflects uncompromising standards of quality management and treating all our staff – shipboard or shorebased – and customers as “family” through caring, honouring and respecting them as we would for our own family members.
