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.
Geraldton, WA
Shipping containers Geraldton
Wind decides more Geraldton deliveries than anything else does. The southerly comes in hard most summer afternoons and it has no respect at all for a container hanging off a crane hook, because an empty 20ft is a very effective sail. So lifts get booked early in the day and occasionally get moved when the forecast is ugly. Everything else about Geraldton is straightforward by the standards of remote Western Australia: a sealed run up the Brand Highway, a town that has moved freight through its port for a century, and industrial ground at Narngulu that a truck can actually use.
- Delivered from
- our Fremantle depot, roughly four and a half hours north on the Brand Highway
- Typical lead time
- Usually 5-9 business days from order to on the ground
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for 10ft and 20ft; side loader or crane truck for 40ft, with lifts booked for the morning where possible
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.
Worth knowing before you order.
The jobs they turn up on locally
Around Geraldton we deliver containers for pot, rope and gear storage for the rock lobster boats working out of the Fishing Boat Harbour and up the coast at Port Denison and Kalbarri, grain, fertiliser and machinery storage on the farms through Chapman Valley, Mullewa, Mingenew and Northampton, lay-down stores for the mineral sands and iron ore contractors around Narngulu and Oakajee, gear storage for the wind farm and solar crews working the Mid West, secure site stores on the estates going in at Wandina and Glenfield, and dry lock-up for boats, dive gear and camping kit that will not fit in a Tarcoola Beach garage.
What the site has to allow for
The first thing a driver checks for a Geraldton job is the forecast, not the map. From October through March the sea breeze routinely gets into the high twenties and low thirties of knots by early afternoon, and there is a real difference between a tilt-tray drop, which will still go ahead, and a crane lift, which will not. An empty container swinging on a hook in that much wind is dangerous to everybody standing near it, so crane jobs are booked for the morning and we would rather move a lift a day than push it. The second thing is ground, and Geraldton has an unusual version of it. Most of the town sits on sand over coastal limestone, which is a strange combination: the limestone underneath is as good a bearing surface as you could ask for, and the sand on top of it is not. On a block where the caprock is shallow you can put a container down on four pads and never think about it again. On the deep dune sand out at Tarcoola Beach, Drummond Cove or Sunset Beach it will settle unevenly through the first winter unless it is set up properly. The third is the shape of the town. Narngulu and the Webberton and Wonthella light industrial areas are easy, with room and hardstand. The older streets down through Beachlands, Bluff Point and the West End are tighter, with narrow verges, limestone walls right on the boundary and services strung across the frontage. Out on the Moresby Range side the driveways climb hard off the road and a tilt-tray bed will ground before the container clears it. Photos from the street, up the approach and at the spot, plus a note about which way the block faces, and we can call the truck and the time of day in one go.
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 Geraldton
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.
Geraldton
Working around the Geraldton wind
People who live here stop noticing the wind. Crane operators do not. The practical effect on a container delivery is simple: a lift over a fence or a house needs the load under control the whole way, and a six metre steel box with nothing in it behaves like a sail once the breeze is over about twenty-five knots. Rather than pretend otherwise, we book Geraldton crane work for the early part of the day, keep an eye on the forecast in the forty-eight hours beforehand, and ring you the afternoon before if it looks like it is going to be a bad one. Moving a lift by a day costs nobody anything. Dropping a container into a fence costs everybody a great deal.
It also feeds into what you should ask for. Where a site can be reached by tilt-tray, a tilt-tray is more weather-tolerant and generally the better answer in a windy town. That sometimes means clearing a bit of yard, taking a gate off its hinges for an hour or moving a car, and it is usually worth the trouble. Where a crane is genuinely the only way in, tell us early so we can get it into a morning slot rather than squeezing it onto the end of a day.
On the ground
Sand over limestone, and getting it level
The Batavia Coast has a bearing surface most of Australia would envy sitting somewhere under it. Coastal limestone carries anything you put on it. The problem is knowing how far down it is on your particular block, because the sand above it varies from a few hundred millimetres in the older parts of town to metres of loose dune out at Sunset Beach and Drummond Cove. If you have dug post holes on the block, you already know the answer and it is worth telling us. If you have not, assume sand and set the container up accordingly, because it costs almost nothing to do it right and it is a substantial job to fix afterwards.
The setup that works everywhere here is four concrete pads or hardwood sleepers under the corner castings, bedded down to firm material and checked level across both diagonals, with the floor sitting a hundred millimetres or more clear of the ground. That keeps the doors square, keeps air moving under the floor, and keeps windblown sand from building up against the underside, which is where corrosion starts on a coastal block. If the ground falls away at all, put the doors on the high side. A container that settles even slightly toward its door end turns an easy one-handed job into a shoulder-into-it job.
Worth knowing
Farm deliveries through the Mid West
A good share of Geraldton area containers never stop in town. They go out to properties through Chapman Valley, Northampton, Mullewa, Mingenew and Yuna, and farm deliveries have their own rhythm. The obvious one is harvest. From roughly late September through December nobody on a wheat property has an hour to stand around watching a truck, and depending on conditions there can be vehicle movement restrictions on the district. Getting a container in before the header starts or after the last load has gone to the bin is easier on everybody, and if it has to happen mid-harvest we need a farm contact who can actually answer a phone on the day.
The other one is the last few kilometres. A gravel farm road that carries a road train in dry weather is a different animal after twenty millimetres of rain, and the pinch points are always the same: the grid, the creek crossing, the gateway that was set out for a tractor. Tell us what the access is honestly, including how tight the house gate is and whether there is a tree over the track, and we will bring the right truck. Where the final position is not reachable, dropping on the hardstand near the sheds and letting the loader shift it is often the sensible answer.
What delivery to Geraldton 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.
We would rather ask two more questions on the phone than send the wrong container up the road.
Other areas we deliver to
We also deliver to Northampton, Dongara, Mullewa, Kalbarri, Chapman Valley and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Geraldton
How long does delivery to Geraldton take?
Usually five to nine business days from order to on the ground. The run up the Brand Highway is sealed the whole way and reasonably quick, so the timing is mostly about when a truck is heading north with room on it and whether the unit needs anything fitted first. Crane jobs can add a day or two because they have to fit a morning slot with a workable forecast. If you have a fixed date, tell us at the enquiry rather than after, and order a week earlier than you think you need to.
Can wind actually delay my delivery?
A crane lift, yes. A tilt-tray drop, almost never. Once the Geraldton southerly gets past about twenty-five knots an empty container on a hook becomes a sail and the lift is no longer safe for anyone standing near it, so we book crane work in the morning and watch the forecast in the two days beforehand. If it looks bad we will ring you the afternoon before and move it rather than turn up and stand around. If your site can be reached by tilt-tray instead, that is the more weather-proof option and worth a bit of yard clearing.
Can you deliver out to a farm at Mullewa, Northampton or Yuna?
Yes, and it is a big part of what we do in the Mid West. Two things we need to know. First, timing around harvest, because from late September into December a property has no spare hands and there can be movement restrictions on the district. Second, the honest state of the farm road: the grid, the creek crossing, the house gate and any tree over the track. If the final position cannot be reached safely with a loaded truck, we drop on hardstand near the sheds and your loader does the last shift, which is usually a five minute job.
Can I see the container before it is sent to Geraldton?
Stock heading north is picked up from our Fremantle depot and inspection there is by arrangement, so ring 1300 467 776 first and we will set a time and have the unit accessible. For most Geraldton buyers the drive is not worth it, so ask for photos of the actual unit on request and we will send them before delivery: the corners, the door end, the roof and a shot down the length of the floor. If something in the photos is not what you expected, we sort it out before it goes on a truck, not after.
Get a price
Send us the address and the access
We deliver to Geraldton 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