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Wholesale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products

Cory Environmental

William Cory and Son Ltd.

Headquarters: London
Founded: 1896
Employees: —

Official website

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

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No published figure available

Container capacity

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Gross tonnage on record

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Summed over 0 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Cory Environmental is

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Cory is a recycling and waste management company based in London.
Originally founded as William Cory & Son in 1896, the company has operated vessels on the River Thames for more than 125 years, transporting a range of commodities and materials including coal, oil, aggregates and waste. Ships from Cory's fleet supported Britain's war efforts in both world wars, with 30 ships being lost during the conflicts. From the 1980s onwards, the business has become increasingly focused on waste management.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: William Cory and Son Ltd.
Industry: Wholesale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products
Legal form: —
Country of registration: United Kingdom
Headquarters: London
Formed in: —
Founded: 1896
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 51.5072, -0.1275

Ships on record here: 1
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 2.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 2024
Newest vessel on record: 2024
Largest vessel by tonnage: —
Average tonnage: —
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 1 vessels this registry attributes to Cory Environmental. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Tug1

By flag state

United Kingdom1

By shipbuilder

Damen Shipyards Hardinxveld1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. 1 deliveries fall inside this window.

Year	Ships delivered	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	0	—	0
2018	0	—	0
2019	0	—	0
2020	0	—	0
2021	0	—	0
2022	0	—	0
2023	0	—	0
2024	1	—	1
2025	0	—	1
2026	0	—	1

Vessel records

Ships on record

1 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
IMO 1022225	1022225	Tug	United Kingdom	2024	—	—	—	Damen Shipyards Hardinxveld

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Cory Environmental compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 1 vessels attributed to it here, Cory Environmental is the 492nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

United Kingdom is the country of registration for 97 commercial operators in this directory, among which Cory Environmental ranks 38th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 260 vessels here. See every operator registered in United Kingdom.

Founded in 1896, Cory Environmental is 130 years old. This directory holds 41 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.