General Purpose Shipping Containers
The standard box, and the right answer about eighty per cent of the time. Corrugated Corten steel, marine-ply floor, double cargo doors at one end, forklift-friendly and — in cargo-worthy grade — sealed against rain from above.
What you get
- New single-trip and quality used units in 10ft, 20ft and 40ft
- Every cargo-worthy unit is checked wind and watertight before it leaves the depot
- As-is units are cheaper again and are not sold watertight — we tell you what is wrong with one rather than let you find out on delivery day
- Lock box fitted so a padlock cannot be reached with bolt cutters
- Photos of your actual unit on request, sent before delivery
The detail worth knowing
A general purpose container is 2.59m tall externally, which gives you about 2.39m of internal height. That is enough to stand a pallet racking bay in, enough to walk around under, and not quite enough to comfortably fit a mezzanine or a roller door with the head clearance a forklift wants. If either of those is on your list, look at a high cube instead.
The floor is 28mm marine-grade plywood on steel cross-members and it is the part people underestimate. It will take a forklift and it will take a pallet jack, but it is also the first thing to go on a container that has spent years carrying something wet. On any used unit, the floor is the thing to look at first and the thing we photograph first.
Doors are the other wear point. A general purpose has two cargo doors at one end with four locking bars and a rubber gasket around the frame. When a container is described as wind and watertight, most of what is being tested is that gasket seating properly and the bars pulling the doors up hard against it.
Sizes and prices
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10ft
10 Foot Shipping Containers
The block is tight, the council setback is unforgiving, or you only ever need to lock up a mower, a compressor and a rack of tools.
$4,350used, from
$6,400new, from -
20ft
20 Foot Shipping Containers
You want the default answer. A tradesman's full kit and a bench, a three-bedroom house of furniture, a farm's worth of feed and fencing gear.
$2,200used, from
$3,300new, from -
40ft
40 Foot Shipping Containers
You have the room, the ground is firm and level, and the truck can get a clear straight run at the spot.
$2,600used, from
$5,500new, from
All prices are guide prices in AUD and exclude GST. They are starting figures for the grade named, they move with condition, availability and where the unit has to come from, and none of them is a quote until the cartage to your address is on it.
Talk it through with someone
Tell us what is going inside it and we will tell you whether this is the right type. Every enquiry answered within one business day.
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