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.
Bunbury, WA
Shipping containers Bunbury
Bunbury is the easy one on this list. The Forrest Highway puts a truck here in about two hours from the depot, there is a working port in town, and the industrial land at Picton and Davenport is flat, sealed and built for heavy vehicles. So the interesting part of a Bunbury job is never getting the container to Bunbury. It is the last thirty metres, where coastal sand carries far less than it looks like it should, the low ground near the estuary stays soft most of winter, and a peppermint tree has had sixty years to lean out over the road.
- Delivered from
- our Fremantle depot, a straight run down the Forrest Highway of about two hours
- Typical lead time
- Usually 3-6 business days from order to on the ground
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for 10ft and 20ft; crane truck or side loader for 40ft and for the older streets around East and South Bunbury
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.
The local picture, briefly.
Common uses in and around town
Around Bunbury we deliver containers for lay-down and consumable storage for the mineral sands and alumina contractors working out of Picton, Kemerton and Worsley, parts and trade storage across the Davenport and Glen Iris industrial estates, dairy and machinery storage on the farms through Brunswick Junction, Harvey and Roelands, orchard and packing shed storage around Donnybrook, gear and barrel storage for the Ferguson Valley wineries, boat, dive and crab gear for people on the Australind and Eaton side of the estuary, and site stores on the constant run of builds through Dalyellup and Treendale.
Access, ground and the last thirty metres
Three quite different sorts of Bunbury address, and they need three different answers. The industrial belt is the simple one. Picton, Davenport, Glen Iris and out toward Kemerton were laid out for trucks, the aprons are sealed, the gates are wide, and there is usually a forklift or a loader already on site. Those drops get booked and done, often with a 40ft, which is not true of most towns this size. The second is the older residential core. East Bunbury, South Bunbury, College Grove and the streets running back off Ocean Drive were subdivided long before anybody imagined a twelve metre truck, with narrow verges, limestone kerbs, and Norfolk Island pines and peppermints that hang low over the carriageway. Plenty of those blocks are perfectly deliverable, but by crane over the fence rather than by tilt-tray up the side, and that is a decision worth making a week out rather than on the morning. Third is ground, and it is the one people underestimate. The coastal strip from Dalyellup up through the CBD and on to Australind is sand, and dry sand carries almost nothing. A corner casting concentrates a couple of tonne onto a plate the size of a dinner plate, and it will find the soft spot. On the low ground either side of the Leschenault estuary and along the Collie and Preston river flats you get the opposite problem: peaty, high water table country that is firm in February and greasy in July. We would rather bring ply and timber and spread the load than pull a truck out of your front lawn. Rural blocks up the Ferguson Valley add a fourth wrinkle, with steep gravel driveways, single-lane bridges and low marri branches. Photos from the street, along the approach and at the spot itself sort nearly all of it out in advance.
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 Bunbury
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.
Bunbury
A short run down the Forrest Highway
Most of regional Western Australia takes what it can get when it comes to containers. Bunbury does not have to. Two hours from the depot means the cartage on a South West job is a sensible number rather than the largest line on the quote, and it means you get an actual choice: 10ft, 20ft, 40ft, standard height or high cube, single door or double, and a real conversation about grade rather than being handed whichever unit happens to be standing closest to the gate. If you want a specific configuration, asking for it here is not wishful thinking. The grades page sets out what each condition means and what is checked before a unit leaves.
Short-haul also means flexibility when something goes wrong, and something occasionally does. A driveway that has gone soft after a wet week, a slab that is not poured yet, a site that is not ready on the day. Pulling a booking and re-running it is a couple of hours of truck time from here, not a wasted day of linehaul, so we can be reasonable about it. The same applies if you decide a 20ft was optimistic and you want a 10ft instead. Ring 1300 467 776 with the address and what the container is for and we will quote the box and the cartage together as one figure.
On the ground
Sand, estuary ground and what goes under the corners
A shipping container carries its whole weight through four corner castings, so the only ground that matters is the four spots those castings land on. On the Bunbury coastal strip that ground is sand, usually with a thin skin of turf over it, and it will let a loaded corner settle a hundred millimetres in the first wet winter without any warning at all. What you notice is not the sinking. What you notice is that the doors stop lining up, because once the four corners are no longer at the same height the whole frame starts working against itself and a racked container is a container you fight with every time you open it.
Concrete pads or hardwood sleepers under the four corners, bedded in and checked level across both diagonals, prevent all of it and cost very little. On the low estuary ground at Australind, Eaton and along the river flats, add height: get the floor a hundred millimetres or more clear of the ground so air moves under it and the underside is not sitting against damp soil for the next twenty years. That also means the container can be lifted cleanly if you ever sell up or reconfigure the yard, rather than having to be dug out. Tell us at the quote if the ground is sandy, sloping or soft and we will put the timber on the truck.
Worth knowing
Salt air on the South West coast
Anything steel within a kilometre or two of the water at Bunbury lives a harder life than the same thing at Donnybrook, and a container is no exception. The good news is that a shipping container is built from corten steel to sit on the deck of a ship in the open ocean for twenty-five years, so it starts from a far better place than a colorbond shed does. The bad news is that the places salt does its work are the places people forget: the underside where spray settles and never dries, the door hinges and cam gear, and any spot where the paint has been scraped through to bare metal during handling.
The maintenance that actually matters is not complicated. Get it up off the ground so the underside dries out. Touch up scrapes with a cold galvanising or a decent enamel before they go orange rather than after. Grease the hinges and locking bars once or twice a year. Keep the roof clear of leaf litter so water runs off instead of ponding in a corner, which is the single most common cause of a rust patch on the top of an otherwise sound box. Do that on a coastal Bunbury block and the container will outlast most of what you build around it.
What delivery to Bunbury costs
Cartage is worked out per address rather than off a table. Distance is only part of it — access is usually what moves the figure.
Tell us the date you actually need it, not the date that sounds polite. It changes which depot the unit comes out of.
Other places on this run
We also deliver to Australind, Eaton, Busselton, Harvey, Donnybrook and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Bunbury
How quickly can you deliver a container to Bunbury?
Three to six business days is the normal window, and it can be quicker on a standard 20ft going to an address with clear access. Bunbury benefits from being a short run down the Forrest Highway from the depot rather than a linehaul, so we are not waiting for a truck heading that way once a fortnight. What stretches it is a crane booking, a unit that needs modification first, or wet weather on soft ground where waiting two days beats bogging a truck in your paddock. Give us your date at the enquiry and we will build the run around it.
Can you deliver further south, to Busselton, Margaret River or Manjimup?
Yes. Anything from Harvey down through Busselton, Dunsborough, Margaret River, Nannup, Bridgetown and Manjimup runs on the same road out of the depot, so it is an extension of a Bunbury job rather than a separate exercise. Timing is similar, sometimes a day longer. What changes is access: the karri and jarrah country has narrow gravel driveways, steep pinches and low branches, and a 40ft that is straightforward on a Picton hardstand is a genuine conversation on a Nannup bush block. Send photos of the approach and we will tell you what will fit before you settle on a size.
Will a container rust quickly this close to the ocean?
Not if it is set up properly. Containers are built from corten steel to cross oceans on an open deck, so salt air is nothing new to them. The three things that shorten their life on a coastal block are all avoidable: sitting flat on damp ground so the underside never dries, leaf litter ponding water on the roof, and handling scrapes left bare until they go orange. Get it up on pads, keep the roof clear, touch up bare metal, and grease the hinges and locking gear once or twice a year. That is the whole program.
What size fits on a typical Bunbury block?
A 20ft is the sensible ceiling on most suburban blocks around Bunbury and Australind. It is six metres long and needs roughly nine or ten metres of straight run to place, which most side yards and driveway aprons can find. A 40ft usually means giving up side access altogether and it needs close to twenty metres of clear approach, so it belongs on acreage or a commercial yard. If you need volume rather than footprint, a 20ft high cube gives you an extra 300mm of internal height on the same ground area, and it is worth asking about.
Get a price
Find out what actually fits
We deliver to Bunbury 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