In conversation: Emily Koo, TCC Group

Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds · Jun 17, 2026 · 21m

For many shipping executives, ships are assets. For Emily Koo, they can feel more like family.In this episode of Wavelength+, TradeWinds China correspondent Huaqing Ma sits down with the fourth-generation managing director of TCC Group, whose roots trace back to Shanghai in 1917.Koo reflects on growing up aboard company vessels, learning from seafarers who later became her mentors, and why spotting a TCC funnel at sea still feels “like seeing a relative”.The conversation ranges from her journey at Columbia Business School and life outside shipping to family stewardship, ancestral roots in…