New and used 40ft high cube
shipping containers.

A 40ft container comes in two heights. The standard is 8 feet 6 inches tall on the outside, the same height as a 20ft. The high cube is 9 feet 6 inches. That single foot is the whole reason the high cube has become the default 40 in our yard and in most yards. It puts clear interior height at roughly 8 feet 10 inches, which is the difference between stacking pallets two high and stacking them two high with room to get a forklift mast under the roof. It is also the difference between standing up comfortably under a shelf and ducking every time you walk to the back.

Outside: 40 feet long, 8 feet wide, 9 feet 6 inches tall. Inside: about 39 feet 5 inches long, 7 feet 8 inches wide, 8 feet 10 inches high. The cargo door opening at the end is roughly 7 feet 8 inches wide and 8 feet 5 inches tall, which is almost a foot more door than a standard height container gives you. Empty weight is in the range of 8,000 pounds. Everything about it is built for a crane and a ship, which is why it sits outside on dry land for decades without a roof to replace or a wall to reside.

A certified cargo-worthy used 40ft high cube starts at $2,870 plus tax. Think about that against the 20ft: for a few hundred dollars more than a used 20ft, you get twice the floor and a foot more air over your head. That is the best price per square foot of secure, dry, lockable storage on our lot, and it is why the used high cube is the container we load onto trucks more than any other 40.

What you are accepting for that price is appearance. A used high cube has spent ten to fifteen years crossing oceans. Expect dents in the side panels, scrapes, weld patches, and surface rust on the paint. Corten steel is designed to form that surface layer and stop. Every one we sell is inspected: floor solid, doors sealing, no daylight with the doors shut. The used containers page walks through exactly how we grade them.

If appearance matters, a new one-trip 40ft high cube starts at $4,200 plus tax. Factory paint, clean marine plywood floor, lock box welded on, doors that swing with one hand out of the gate. The one-trip page explains what that term actually means and when the extra money earns itself back.

Confirm the day you order

Container prices track the steel and shipping markets, so the numbers here are starting points, plus tax. Send us the size and the delivery address and we will confirm your exact price and quote delivery with it. Financing available, ask when you request a quote.

A standard 40 has one set of cargo doors at one end. A 40ft standard one-trip with double doors, cargo doors at both ends, starts at $4,250 plus tax and turns the container into a drive-through: no dead corner forty feet from the opening, and long material loads from whichever end you can reach. We also bring in a 40ft high cube with four sets of side doors, which opens most of one long wall, for the jobs where a forklift has to reach anywhere in the box without driving into it. Ask us what is on the ground and what is inbound, or check the inventory page.

This is the part that surprises people, so plan for it before you order. A 40 needs roughly 100 feet of straight, clear, reasonably firm run for the tilt-bed to back in, raise, and slide the container off as the truck pulls forward. Figure about 12 feet of width the whole way, gates and mirrors included, and 14 feet of overhead for limbs and utility lines. Soft ground, a tight turn at the end of a driveway, or a low branch will stop a 40 where a 20ft would have gone in fine.

We check all of it with you ahead of time, and our drivers have set 40s in spots that looked impossible on a map. Under the container, you need a level base at the four corners and, on a 40, at the midpoints too. Gravel, decomposed granite, footings, or a slab are all fine. The site prep and delivery guide covers it in five minutes, and then send us your address and we will quote the container and the delivery together.