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.
Coffs Harbour, NSW
Shipping containers Coffs Harbour
There is nowhere else on this coast where the range comes down this hard to the sea, and it shapes every delivery in Coffs. The flat land is a thin strip between the surf and the hills, and the moment you leave it you are on a slope, which is why the bananas ended up planted on grades no tractor should be on. Half the addresses we go to have a driveway that pitches off the kerb steeply enough to ground a tilt bed, and the other half are on sand behind a beach. The good news is the stock is only an hour and a bit north at Grafton.
- Delivered from
- the Grafton depot, an easy run south down the highway
- Typical lead time
- Usually 2–4 business days from order to on the ground
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for 10ft and 20ft; crane truck for 40ft, steep hillside blocks and anything lifted 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 we tell people who ring from here.
What they get used for around here
Around Coffs Harbour we deliver containers for netting, bins, irrigation fittings and harvest gear on the blueberry and banana blocks running from Boambee up through Corindi and Woolgoolga, nets, pots and outboard spares for the boats working out of the harbour and the jetty, boards, skis and beach gear for households at Sawtell, Emerald Beach and Sapphire, site stores for the builders working the hill estates and the ongoing highway and bypass works, gear storage for the sporting clubs and events that fill this town, timber and tools on the escarpment blocks running up toward Bellingen and Dorrigo, and household storage during a knockdown or a move.
What the driver needs from the site
Coffs is a slope with a town on it. The escarpment runs almost to the water, so once you are off the highway flat and into Korora, Diggers Beach, Boambee East, Toormina's higher streets, Coramba Road or the hill above the Jetty, you are dealing with driveways that fall away hard at the kerb and then climb, often with a sharp break of grade right at the property line. That break is what grounds a tilt bed before the container is clear, and it is not always visible from the seat of a car. Add hairpin bends on some of the older hillside subdivisions and turning space that runs out at the top, and a decent share of hillside addresses end up being crane jobs. On the beach side, at Sawtell, Sapphire, Emerald Beach and Moonee, it is dune sand over a high water table, which drains fast and carries almost nothing, so a loaded truck will find the bottom of a nature strip and a corner casting will punch straight through thin turf. Inland it changes to red basalt and clay on the plantation slopes, which is firm in the dry and greasy within minutes of rain, especially on the steep tracks between banana or blueberry rows and under the netting where the ground never really gets sun on it. The other current factor is the roadworks. The bypass build has changed traffic patterns through town, closed and rerouted access in places and put a lot of heavy vehicle movement onto roads that were already busy, which is why we give a delivery window rather than an hour. Then there are the newer estates, at Sandy Beach, Bonville, Moonee and the hill pockets, which bring narrow streets with cars parked both sides, service pits and stormwater grates on the kerb line that will crack under a loaded rear axle, fill that has not settled, and covenants that will have something to say about where a steel box may sit. West of town the Waterfall Way climb toward Bellingen and Dorrigo is a genuinely steep, tightly wound haul, and size gets decided by that road rather than by your block.
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 Coffs Harbour
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.
Coffs Harbour
Steep driveways, and when it becomes a crane job
The classic Coffs problem is a driveway that drops off the kerb, crosses a stormwater channel and then climbs to a house sitting well above the road. Every one of those elements works against a tilt-tray. The bed has to lift high before the container slides, the truck needs its chassis clear underneath, and a sharp break of grade at the property line will have the rear of the bed touching down while the container is still on it. A crest halfway up does the same thing from the other direction. None of that means we cannot deliver, it means the truck changes.
A crane truck stands on the street and places the container where it needs to go, over a fence, a carport or a bank. What decides feasibility is reach and clearance: the horizontal distance from where the truck can legally stand to the spot, the height of anything in between, whether there are power or comms lines across your frontage, and whether the street is wide enough for the outriggers, which on a narrow hillside road with cars parked can mean holding traffic for a while. One photo taken from the middle of the road looking straight up the drive, one from the spot looking back at the street, and one straight up at the lines will usually let us call it before anybody talks about price.
On the ground
Bananas, blueberries and gear that has to lock
Horticulture is the reason a lot of containers land in this district. The banana blocks are still there on the steep ground and the blueberry industry has spread across a great deal of country from Boambee north through Corindi and Woolgoolga, and both generate the same requirement: a large volume of gear that must be secure, dry and vermin-proof, on a block where a shed either does not exist or is already full. Netting and clips, harvest bins and crates, irrigation fittings, pumps, spray equipment, chemicals that have to be locked, picking gear that arrives with a crew and goes away again.
A container suits that because it arrives finished, it needs no slab poured and cured first, it is lockable on the day it lands, and it can be relocated or sold on if the planting changes. On sloping plantation ground it also beats a shed, because a container can be levelled on pads where a slab would mean serious excavation on a grade. The practical constraints are the tracks between rows, which are narrow and cambered and go slick fast, and the netting itself, which is often low enough to rule out a raised tilt bed. Tell us where in the block it is going and what the approach looks like and we will work out whether it is a tilt job, a crane job, or a drop on firm ground for you to shift in with the tractor.
Worth knowing
Estates, covenants and the retirement end of town
Coffs has a large and growing share of lifestyle estates and over-fifties communities, and they are consistently the strictest environments we deliver into. Estate covenants sit on top of the council position and are frequently tighter than it, with something to say about what may be stored on a lot, whether it can be visible from the street, what colours are acceptable and whether anything may sit forward of the building line. Village and community managers usually want written notice, a nominated window, insurance details from the transport operator and a route that avoids a height-limited entry.
We will not guess at the rule for your particular street, because it varies and it is yours to check before you order. The pattern is consistent enough to plan around though: temporary, behind the building line, screened by a fence or planting and used for storage is the easy end. Permanent, prominent and altered is where the questions start. It is also worth asking the manager or the estate what size they will accept, because plenty will approve a 10ft or 20ft in a nominated position and will not entertain a 40ft at all. Get that settled first and then ring us with the window, and we will land the truck inside it.
What delivery to Coffs Harbour costs
We quote delivery with the container every time. It is the honest way to do it when access varies as much as it does around here.
Describe the spot it has to land on and we will work backwards from there to the container and the truck.
Other areas we deliver to
We also deliver to Sawtell, Woolgoolga, Bellingen, Urunga, Nambucca Heads and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Coffs Harbour
My driveway is steep. Can you still get a container in?
Usually, but often not with a tilt-tray. Where a Coffs driveway drops hard off the kerb and then climbs, or has a sharp break of grade at the property line, the truck bed touches down before the container is clear. A crest partway up does the same. On those blocks we look at a crane truck placing it over the fence or the bank instead, or at a smaller unit than the one originally planned. Send a photo taken from the middle of the road looking straight up the drive and another from where the container is going, and we can usually answer on the spot.
How long does delivery take to Coffs Harbour?
Two to four business days is the normal window, because stock is held at our Grafton depot rather than several hours away. What can stretch it is a crane booking, an estate or village window we have to land inside, wet weather on a plantation track or a sandy block, and the traffic effects of the bypass works, which are the reason we give a window rather than an hour. If you have a fixed date, tell us at the enquiry and we will build the run around it.
Can you deliver onto a blueberry or banana block?
Yes, and it is a good part of what we do here. The things to check first are the width and camber of the track between rows, how the surface behaves after rain, since red basalt and clay go greasy within minutes, and the height of any netting, because a tilt-tray raises its bed a long way before the container comes off. Where the row access will not take a truck, the usual answer is to set the container down on firm ground near the shed or the road for you to walk in with the tractor at your own pace.
Can I inspect a container before it is delivered to Coffs?
Yes. Stock for this coast is held at our Grafton depot, roughly an hour and a half north, and inspection there is by arrangement rather than a walk-in yard, so ring on 1300 467 776 and we will set a time when someone can meet you. If the trip is not worth it, ask for photos of the actual unit on request and we will send them before delivery, including the corner posts, the door end, the roof and the internal floor, so you are looking at the container that is coming to you rather than one like it.
Get a price
Tell us what the site looks like
We deliver to Coffs Harbour 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