10ft Shipping Containers
Side access is pinched, the setback leaves nothing to manoeuvre in, or all that is needed is a lockable spot for the mower, an air compressor and a wall of hand tools.
Brisbane, QLD
Shipping containers Brisbane
Brisbane is where our yard is, so the container you buy here is usually one you can walk up to and open before it goes anywhere. That takes the guesswork out of the easy half of the job. The hard half is the ten metres between the kerb and the spot you have picked, because this city was laid out across ridges, gullies and old river bends, and a great many of its best blocks were surveyed when the biggest thing anyone expected down the street was a coal lorry and a milk cart.
- Delivered from
- our own yard at 51–55 Bromley Street, Cornubia, with stock also drawn from the Port of Brisbane at Fisherman Islands and the Wacol–Richlands depot corridor
- Typical lead time
- Usually 2–4 business days from order to on the ground, and often next day on the southside
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for 10ft and 20ft where there is a straight run in; crane truck for 40ft, high-set houses and anything that has to go over a fence
Every enquiry answered within one business day.You hear back from a person, not an autoresponder. Enquiries that land on a weekend are answered the next business day.
What matters locally, first.
What the containers do here
Around Brisbane we deliver containers for lock-up storage on the narrow infill lots going up through Nundah, Cannon Hill and Wooloowin, tool and materials stores for the trades working the constant knockdown-rebuild run across Bulimba, Camp Hill and Ashgrove, parts and stock overflow on the industrial estates at Acacia Ridge, Darra, Eagle Farm and Hemmant, somewhere dry for a whole household while a Queenslander is lifted and built in underneath, workshop and home-gym conversions on blocks where a shed would mean pouring a slab first, and feed, tack and machinery storage out on the acreage fringe through Pullenvale, Cedar Creek and Mount Nebo.
What the driver needs from the site
Work outward from Cornubia and Brisbane sorts itself into a handful of different jobs. The southern arc — Springwood, Rochedale, Daisy Hill, Shailer Park, Loganholme and around to the bay at Victoria Point — is a short hop off the M1 and those drops are the easiest in the city to schedule tightly. North of the river the truck is on the Gateway or the inner-city bypass, which is fine but expensive in time, so an Aspley or Ferny Grove job wants a morning rather than a slot wedged between two others. Inner-city addresses get run early, because a rigid truck with six metres of steel on the back and nowhere legal to stand is not a lunchtime proposition. Then there is the terrain, which is why we ask questions. On the ridges west and north of the river — Bardon, Red Hill, Paddington, Toowong, Chapel Hill, Everton Hills — three things tend to arrive together. The driveway falls away so sharply at the kerb that the truck bed drags before the load is anywhere near clear. The house is up on stumps, so the only ground worth using is out the back or in underneath. And there is fifty-odd years of fig, poinciana and jacaranda leaning out over the carriageway at exactly the height a lifted bed wants to occupy. Any one of those is workable. All three at once is a crane truck, and that is a decision far better made at the quote than at seven in the morning. Ground is the third variable. Through the old river flats at Rocklea, Oxley, Fairfield, Tennyson and along the Breakfast Creek and Kedron Brook corridors the soil is alluvial silt, which sets up like a slab through September and then loses its nerve after a fortnight of storms. New estate fill in the outer north does the same until it has had a summer or two on it. Send us a shot from the middle of the road looking in, one down the length of the approach and one of the ground itself, and we will tell you which truck is coming before anyone talks price.
Grade moves the price more than size does, and it is what decides whether a unit is sold watertight — the full rundown is on the grades page.
The range
Containers we deliver to Brisbane
Priced with delivery to your address - one call, one number.
20ft Shipping Containers
There is about seven metres of straight, reasonably level ground for it to sit on, and you would rather not discover in half a year that the bigger box was the answer.
40ft Shipping Containers
You have the space, the approach is genuinely open, and the aim is the largest amount of storage per dollar spent that anybody sells.
Brisbane
Come and see it at Cornubia before you buy it
Our yard is at 51–55 Bromley Street, Cornubia, about half an hour south-east of the CBD straight off the M1. It is a real yard with signage, hardstand and containers standing where you can walk the length of them, swing the doors, put your head inside and look down the floor. That is worth more than any description we could write. Ring first so somebody is there to walk you round and so the unit you are interested in is not buried three deep behind something else, and give yourself twenty minutes rather than five — most people change their mind about size once they are standing next to a 20ft and a 40ft side by side. It is also the quickest way to settle whether a standard height or a high cube is the one you actually want.
Being local also changes what happens when something goes sideways. A Brisbane customer whose driveway has gone soft, or who has picked a size that will not clear the side gate, is a short run from us rather than a full day's cartage from another city. We can pull the booking, swap the unit or come back later in the week without it turning into a saga. Stock moves between Cornubia, the port depots at Fisherman Islands and the yards strung along the Ipswich Motorway through Wacol and Richlands, which is why Brisbane buyers usually get genuine choice of size, height and door configuration rather than whatever single unit happens to be standing free. Ask what has landed recently and we will tell you straight.
On the ground
High-set houses and the crane decision
The classic Brisbane back yard is behind a house that sits a metre and a half off the ground on stumps, at the end of a driveway that was poured for a Kingswood. There is often a perfectly good flat spot at the rear. There is just no way to drive to it. That is not a difficult delivery, it is simply a different one: a crane truck stands out the front, picks the container up and places it over the fence, the carport or the roofline, and the whole thing takes less time on site than threading a tilt-tray down a side passage would have. Nine times in ten the container ends up exactly where the owner wanted it, it just arrives over the top rather than through the gate.
What decides whether it works is reach and what is in the air. A crane's capacity drops away sharply the further the boom goes out, so a container travelling eight metres over a paling fence is a very different machine to the same container going twenty-two metres over a two-storey Queenslander. Overhead services across the frontage matter, and so does street width, because the outriggers want solid, even ground and they plant themselves well outside the width of the truck. On the narrow older streets around Highgate Hill, New Farm and Wilston that can mean standing in the road for half an hour with the neighbours warned in advance. Three photos — from the gate at the house, from the back yard looking toward the street, and one straight up at the power lines — settle nearly every one of these questions in a single phone call. Where the answer is genuinely no, it is usually because the only path is over the house and the reach is not there. In that case two 10ft units, or a 20ft where a 40ft was the plan, will very often solve the same storage problem with a much simpler lift.
Worth knowing
Silt, storms and what goes under the corners
A container carries its entire weight, and everything you put in it, through four castings the size of a dinner plate. On Brisbane's old river silt and on young estate fill, that concentration is what causes trouble. The unit goes down in dry weather onto ground that feels like concrete, a summer storm cell parks over the suburb for an hour, and one corner quietly gives up a hundred millimetres while the other three stay put. A container that is out of square is a container whose doors have to be shouldered, and the doors are the only part of it you actually touch, so a good store turns into a daily irritation and then into a bill. None of that is the container's fault and none of it is hard to avoid.
Four hardwood sleepers or concrete pads under the castings, bedded level and checked on both diagonals, prevents all of it and costs almost nothing. Set the doors at the top of any fall so they open with the slope working for you rather than dragging on the latch. Keep the underside clear so air moves and water gets away rather than sitting against the floor bearers, And if it is landing under a fig or a gum, get up there twice a year and clear the roof, because a mat of wet leaves sitting on a panel does more damage over ten years than the weather ever will. Tell us at the quote what the ground is — slab, turf over clay, sand, fresh fill, or unknown — and the packing rides out on the truck with the container so the levelling gets done while we are there, not left behind for you.
What delivery to Brisbane costs
Delivery is priced with the container, not separately and not off a list. One phone call gets you the real number for your address.
A two-minute conversation about the site usually saves a second delivery fee later.
Other towns on the same run
We also deliver to Ipswich, Logan, Gold Coast, Redland Bay, Caboolture and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Brisbane
Can I look at the container before I buy it in Brisbane?
Yes, and we would rather you did. The yard is at 51–55 Bromley Street, Cornubia, roughly thirty minutes south-east of the CBD off the M1, with the units standing on hardstand so you can swing the doors, walk the floor and run your eye over the seals yourself. Ring ahead so somebody is there and the unit you want to see is accessible rather than stacked behind something. If the trip does not suit, ask for photos of the actual unit on request and they come through before delivery: corners, door end, roof, and the floor shot from the inside.
My driveway at Paddington is steep and the house is high-set. Can you still deliver?
Usually, but not on a tilt-tray. Where the drive pitches down hard at the kerb the truck bed grounds before the container is clear, and a high-set house means the only usable ground is out the back where a truck cannot reach anyway. Those blocks are craned: the truck stands on the street and places the container over the fence or the carport. What we need to know is how far it has to travel horizontally, what height it has to clear, and whether there are service lines across your frontage. A photo from the middle of the road and one from the back yard will normally answer it in a single call.
How quickly can you get a container onto a Brisbane block?
Two to four business days is the normal window, and southside addresses within reach of Cornubia are frequently next business day on a standard 20ft with clear access. What adds time is a crane booking, a unit that has to come across from a port depot first, or wet weather on silt or fresh fill where waiting two days beats leaving a pair of ruts across your lawn. If you are working to a fixed date — a settlement, a removalist, a site start — say so at the enquiry and we will build the run around it instead of telling you afterwards that it did not fit.
Do I need approval to put a container on a residential block in Brisbane?
That turns on a few things: the length of stay, whether the unit is visible from the road, what goes inside it, and whether the property sits under a character or heritage overlay, which plenty of the inner suburbs do. Newer estates frequently layer a covenant on top that is tighter than anything the council asks for. We are not going to guess your street's position — that one is worth confirming yourself before you order. The pattern is consistent enough to plan around, though: temporary, screened and used for storage is the easy end, permanent and prominent from the road is where the questions start.
Get a price
Talk it through with someone who has done it
We deliver to Brisbane and the surrounding district. Tell us what is going in it and what the access is like, and you will get a price with the cartage worked out. Every enquiry answered within one business day.
Or skip the form and ring us — 1300 467 776, Mon-Fri 7:30am-5pm, Sat 8am-12pm