The Tea Trade Association Of Cochin

Our office is located over on Willingdon Island at the Tea Trade Centre on Indira Gandhi Road. It is a bit of a unique spot to work because we are right out there by the water and the port. The Tea Trade Association of Cochin has been around for a long time, serving as a place where people in the tea industry can get together. We are not a factory or a retail shop, but more like a central hub for information and daily coordination. We deal with many different members, including the people who grow the tea and the ones who sell it. The building we are in is quite functional and has several rooms used for meetings and for keeping track of the regular auctions. You can often smell the faint scent of tea in the hallways when samples are being moved around for testing. It is a quiet kind of busy environment most of the time. We spend a lot of our hours looking at big ledgers and making sure the trade rules are being followed properly. Willingdon Island has its own slow pace, which is a nice change from the rush of the main city. We have the harbor right nearby, so you can see the massive container ships coming in and out. Our work is mostly about making sure the regional tea industry runs as smoothly as possible. We do not sell any tea ourselves, we just help manage the whole process for everyone involved. It is an old tradition here.