Northern Rivers NSW · sales, hire and delivery
Shipping container sales, hire and delivery across the Northern Rivers — Lismore, Ballina, Casino, Kyogle, Byron and the coast between them. A local number, answered by someone who knows the roads.
Ring 02 6622 1322, say what is going inside and where it is going. Five minutes gets you a grade, a size, a truck and a delivered figure.
A Northern Rivers number that a person answers — 02 6622 1322
Cargo-worthy units checked wind and watertight before they go on a truck
Delivery from the Richmond and Wilsons river country out to Kyogle, the coast and the ranges
Photos of your actual container on request, sent before delivery
One price with the cartage already in it, not a container price and a freight bill later
We sell and hire shipping containers across the Northern Rivers and we deliver them ourselves — from Lismore out to Casino and Kyogle, down the Richmond to Coraki, Woodburn and Wardell, east to Ballina and the coast, and north to Byron Bay and Murwillumbah and the Tweed Valley. You ring a local number, you talk to somebody who knows the roads and the ground, and you get one price with the cartage already in it rather than a container price and a freight bill a fortnight later.
This is a service-area business. There is no public yard to walk into — units come from depot stock and go straight to your address, which is a large part of why the delivered price is what it is. What we do instead is send photographs of the actual container allocated to your job, on request and before delivery, marks and repairs included rather than photographed around.
The range
Guide prices, ex GST, cartage quoted with the container. Tap a size to load it into the quote form.
The default, and the right answer most of the time. Thirty-three cubic metres, roughly the contents of a three-bedroom house, and a footprint that fits on the flat part of most Northern Rivers blocks without engineering the ground first.
The short one. It fits down the side of a Girards Hill cottage, into the back corner of a Ballina unit block, or onto a Byron property where a 20ft would swallow the only flat ground there is.
Twelve metres and sixty-seven cubic metres. The size that solves a big storage problem in one delivery — and the size that most often turns into an access problem if nobody measures the approach first.
Same footprint, roughly 300mm more headroom. The extra height changes what a container is useful for far more than the number suggests.
Bunded, ventilated and signed units for storing chemicals, fuel and flammables — the class of storage that has an inspector attached to it rather than just a padlock.
Guide pricing only, ex GST. What you actually pay delivered depends on the grade, where you are and what is standing in the yard that week. Ring 02 6622 1322 and we will give you a real number instead of a range.
Grades matter
Cargo-worthy is the grade we check wind and watertight before it goes on a truck. As-is units are cheaper again and are not sold watertight — one may have a patched repair, a soft floor section or a door seal that no longer seats, and we will tell you exactly what is wrong with it before you buy. New single-trip units are sealed and unmarked. If the container has to keep rain off what is inside it, buy cargo-worthy or better.
Choosing the right one
Describe what is going inside rather than picking a size. It is a much faster conversation and it is how people avoid buying the wrong box.
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Sixteen cubic metres is roughly one large single garage. It suits a one-bedroom flat, a workshop’s worth of tools, or the contents of a garden shed.
A tilt-tray still needs a straight approach and firm ground to reverse over, but the short body makes the swing into a tight side drive far more achievable than it is with a 20ft.
A 10ft costs more than a 20ft, because it is cut down and rebuilt rather than manufactured. If a 20ft will physically fit on the block, buy the 20ft.
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About 33 cubic metres — in practice the contents of an average three-bedroom house including whitegoods, or a tradesman’s entire workshop with room to walk in.
About 20m of straight, firm approach behind the spot so a tilt-tray can tip the box off its tail.
Three-quarters of what we deliver between Kyogle and the coast is a 20ft. It is the easiest size to place on the ground we actually have here.
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An entire farm shed being decanted, a business moving stock out of a leased shed, a builder consolidating three sites into one lockable box.
Twelve straight metres of level, load-bearing ground, a wide entry with no tight turn at the gate, and a much longer, straighter approach for the vehicle.
Double the floor of a 20ft, at a price nowhere near double. It works on the flat country; it does not work on the steep, narrow hinterland roads.
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Same footprint, roughly 300mm more headroom — about 2.69m of internal height. Once you line a standard container the ceiling comes down to about 2.2m; a high cube keeps it a room.
The ground requirements are identical; the air above is not. A high cube sits around 300mm taller on the truck — walk the approach and look up before you order.
Available in 20ft and 40ft (40ft shown). 10ft units are not made as high cubes in any normal supply.
Buy or hire
Used 20ft from $2,200 ex GST
Open-ended, or still useful when the job finishes? Buy.
20ft from $27/wk ex GST
Defined end inside a year and the box has to leave afterwards? Hire.
How we work
Containers come from depot stock and go straight to your address, on one truck movement rather than two. That removes a double handling and a set of yard overheads, and the saving turns up in the delivered price. More on how we work.
We ask what is going inside, where it is going, and what the ground and the approach look like. Three photographs speed this up enormously.
The grade the job needs, the size that will physically get there, and the vehicle. If the size you asked for will not fit down your driveway, you hear that now rather than on the day.
One figure with the cartage in it. Not a container price and a freight bill a fortnight later. If you want photographs of the specific unit, ask — they are sent before delivery.
We book a truck and you prepare the pad. It arrives, it goes exactly where you agreed, and somebody is there to make sure of it.
Grades, and water, honestly
Grade moves the price more than size does and it is the decision people spend the least time on. The right one is decided by a single question: does the contents have to stay dry?
One loaded voyage from the factory. Sealed, unmarked, straight doors, factory paint. Worth the money when the container will be seen, lined or fitted out, and on a coastal block.
The working grade and the one most people should buy. Each cargo-worthy box passes a wind and watertight check before it is loaded for you. It will still have dents, surface rust and shipping-line markings.
Cheaper again and not sold watertight. Expect something like an old patch, a tired floor panel or a door rubber that has stopped sealing. We tell you exactly what is wrong with a particular unit before you buy it.
Watertight means sealed against rain arriving from above. Floodwater rises, reaches the bottom of the door seals, and gets in — and then the box holds it.
We are based in a town that went under in February and March 2022, and we get asked constantly whether a container will keep floodwater out. It will not, and we would rather say so here than let it be assumed.
What a container genuinely offers is height, because you choose the ground it stands on and can build the pad up; mobility, because it can be lifted and moved if there is warning and the truck access is still clear; and dry lockable storage while a rebuild runs, which for a great many households here has been the whole point. An empty container is also buoyant and can float, which is worth knowing before you site one on low ground.
The full explanation — what steel can and cannot doWhere we deliver
Fifteen locality pages, each written for the ground and the roads that are actually there rather than a template with the town name swapped in. The two that raise the most questions are shipping containers for Byron Bay, where tight blocks and sand mean a crane truck more often than not, and shipping containers for Murwillumbah, where the road up to the hill blocks decides the size before the block does.
Lismore · 2480
The truck: Tilt-tray for most addresses; crane truck for the older CBD and riverside streets
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Written for Northern Rivers driveways, river flats, sand and hinterland tracks. All guides.
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The three honest ways to get power to a container out here, what a licensed electrician has to do, and the cable, vent and battery decisions to make early.
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What watertight actually means, why an empty container floats, and what a container genuinely offers on low ground on the Northern Rivers.
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Ground that holds a loaded truck, room to line up, nothing low overhead: what decides tray or crane on Northern Rivers drives, flats and ridges.
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Match grade to load: what single-trip, cargo-worthy and as-is each promise, which contents need a checked watertight box, and when as-is suits.
Tell us the job and we will price it
02 6622 1322One number with the cartage in it, usually the same day. 02 6622 1322 reaches somebody who has delivered onto these blocks.