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.
Bundaberg, QLD
Shipping containers Bundaberg
Two things shape a Bundaberg delivery and neither is the highway. The first is red soil, which is superb country to grow things in and a genuinely deceptive surface to park twenty tonne on — it sets like a road in October and turns greasy within an hour of a storm. The second is that a lot of the district is cut up by cane tramway, and from about June the roads and headlands are busy with bins and haul-outs that were there first. Work around both and the run is easy.
- Delivered from
- our Gympie depot or the Cornubia yard, depending on which has the size and grade you are after
- Typical lead time
- Usually 3–6 business days from order to on the ground
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for 10ft and 20ft; crane truck for 40ft, and a longer trailer for farm drops with a straight run in
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.
Start here if you are working out what to order.
Common uses in and around town
Around Bundaberg we deliver containers for chemical, fertiliser and irrigation fittings kept locked and dry on the cane and small crop farms out through Bundaberg North, Gooburrum and Bucca, packing shed overflow for the macadamia, avocado and sweet potato growers around Childers and Wallaville, seasonal storage for the labour and harvest contractors who need gear to disappear between crops, boat, dive and fishing gear on the coastal strip at Bargara, Innes Park and Elliott Heads, site stores on the builds through Avoca, Kalkie and Ashfield, and secure storage for the marine and workshop trades near Burnett Heads.
The delivery problem here
Red basaltic soil is the signature of this district and it deserves respect. Dry, it is hard, well graded and carries a loaded truck as well as a formed road. Wet, it is slick on top with grip underneath, which is a worse combination than plain mud because the wheels break away before the driver has any warning. It also stains everything it touches, which matters less to a container than it does to a paved driveway a truck has just tracked across. Out on the farms, the working surfaces are headlands and farm tracks, and headlands are built for a tractor turning circle rather than a rigid truck with six metres hanging past the rear axle. Cane tramway crossings are everywhere across this country and they are worth flagging when you book — a private crossing is not always sitting at the same level as the road either side, and a long truck can hang up on the hump if the approach is short. From the middle of the year the tramways and the haul roads are working, and a delivery that ignores the harvest is a delivery that spends an hour waiting for a train of bins. Closer to town, Bundaberg North, Kepnock, Kalkie and Avoca are ordinary suburban work with the usual mix of narrow older frontages and cut-and-fill estate blocks where the ground has not settled. The coastal strip is different again. Bargara, Innes Park, Coral Cove and Elliott Heads sit on sand and coral rubble with salt in the air off the water, so the ground carries poorly and anything steel that sits there permanently needs a bit more thought about how it is set up and how it is kept. And the low country along the Burnett — North Bundaberg in particular — has a history that anyone siting a long-term store down there ought to factor in before they choose the spot.
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 Bundaberg
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.
Bundaberg
Red soil, and what to put under the corners
The reason we keep going on about what a container sits on is that this district makes it matter more than most. Red volcanic soil is deep, it holds water, and it moves through the year — swelling through the wet and shrinking back through the dry, and never evenly across a block. A container dropped straight onto red soil goes along for the ride, corner by corner, and the moment those four load points stop sitting level with each other the frame is trying to carry itself on three of them. The visible symptom is always the doors: one starts to bind, then it needs a shove, then it needs two people and a bar. By then the frame is racked and the fix is a lift and a reset, not a shim.
Prevention is a few pads or bearers under the castings, bedded onto something that will not sink and checked across both diagonals before the truck leaves. Face the doors uphill wherever the ground falls, so they swing with gravity instead of fighting it, and leave clear air underneath so water drains off and the underside can breathe. On red soil we also like to keep the grass down around the bottom rail, because vegetation held against steel traps moisture for months at a time and that is what starts the corrosion, not the weather itself. Ten minutes with a whipper snipper twice a year decides whether the bottom rail is still clean steel in twenty years or a line of scale you are grinding back.
On the ground
Farms, harvest and getting the timing right
A farm delivery in this district is usually easy and occasionally impossible, and the difference is almost always the last three hundred metres rather than the property itself. Headland turns are sized for machinery that pivots, not for a rigid truck that needs to swing wide and then straighten. Private tramway crossings can sit proud of the road, which will hang up a long truck with a short approach. Irrigation mains and drainage pipes run under farm crossings that were built for a tractor and a bin, not for twenty tonne standing still on top of them. And from the middle of the year through to about the end of the season, the tramway and the haul roads are in use.
None of that is a problem if we know about it. Tell us when you book what the approach is, whether there is a crossing on it, and whether harvest traffic is running. Where the track will not carry a loaded truck, the standard answer in this district is to stand the container on the hardstand by the shed or up near the road and let you drag it into position with the tractor when it suits. That is often cleaner than threading a truck down a track that will need grading afterwards, and it puts the timing back in your hands rather than ours. Where the shed itself is the destination and the approach is genuinely tight, a crane truck standing on firm ground and reaching in will usually get further than a tilt-tray that has to drive the whole way.
Worth knowing
The coastal strip is a different job
Twenty minutes east of the city and everything changes. Bargara, Burnett Heads, Innes Park, Coral Cove and Elliott Heads sit on sand and coral rubble with salt in the air off the water, and both of those affect a container over the long term. Sand carries badly, so bearers or pads under the corners are not optional if you want the unit to still be square in five years. Salt air is not the killer people assume — these things spent their working lives crossing oceans — but a container sitting still under a casuarina with wet leaf litter on the roof and long grass against the bottom rail is in a completely different situation to one on a ship. That is where corrosion actually starts.
The maintenance list is short and it is the whole list. Sweep the roof a couple of times a year so leaf litter is not sitting on a panel holding water. Keep the grass down around the base. Leave a gap underneath so air moves. Open the doors on a dry day now and then to clear any condensation. Do that on the coast here and a unit that would otherwise look tired quickly stays sound for decades. If it is going to live out there permanently with anything you need to stay dry, ask for cargo-worthy, which is checked wind and watertight before it leaves the yard, and have a look at the grades page before you make the call on price alone.
What delivery to Bundaberg costs
Freight to this area is quoted per job. The truck the site needs is usually the bigger variable, not the kilometres.
Give us the address and a rough idea of the entry and we will do the working out at our end.
We deliver around here too
We also deliver to Bargara, Childers, Gin Gin, Burnett Heads, Woodgate and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Bundaberg
Can you deliver to a cane farm out past Gooburrum or Bucca?
Yes, and it is a big part of what goes to this district. What we need to know is what the last few hundred metres looks like: whether there is a tramway crossing on the approach and how it sits relative to the road, whether the headland has a real turning area or just a tractor-sized one, and whether harvest traffic is running. Where the track will not carry a loaded truck, we stand the container on firm ground by the shed or up near the road and you drag it into place with the tractor when it suits. Raise it at the booking rather than at the gate.
What does red soil do to a container over time?
It moves under it. Red volcanic soil takes up water through the wet and shrinks back through the dry, unevenly across a block, and a container placed straight onto it follows that movement one corner at a time. Once the four corner castings are at different heights the frame racks and the doors stop closing properly. Pads or bearers under each casting, bedded firm and checked across both diagonals, head all of it off for very little money. Our drivers do that setup at delivery wherever the site lets them — just describe the ground when you ring.
How quickly can you get a container to Bundaberg?
Three to six business days is the normal window from order. A standard 20ft going to a clear address at the shorter end, and it stretches where a crane is needed, where a specific grade or configuration has to come from Cornubia rather than Gympie, or where rain has taken a farm track or a soft block off the list for a couple of days. Where your date is fixed, say so when you ring and the run gets planned to suit it rather than the reverse.
Should I be worried about salt air at Bargara or Innes Park?
Less than most people expect, and more about the things around it than the sea breeze. What actually starts corrosion is wet leaf litter sitting on the roof, grass and vegetation trapping moisture against the bottom rail, and a floor bearing directly on damp sand for years. Get it up on pads with air moving underneath, sweep the roof occasionally, keep the base clear, and it will hold up for decades. For anything permanent on the coastal strip that has to stay dry, ask for cargo-worthy — it is checked wind and watertight before it leaves the yard.
Get a price
Tell us what has to fit in it
We deliver to Bundaberg 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