New one-trip
shipping containers for sale.

A one-trip container is built at a factory overseas, loaded with freight, and sailed across the ocean once. When the ship lands, the cargo comes out and the container is sold on this side instead of going back into rotation. That single loaded crossing is the whole history of the box. It is why the industry calls it one-trip rather than new, and it is the most honest name anybody in this business uses: the container is not fresh off the line and untouched, and it is also not a fifteen-year veteran. It is a container with one voyage on it.

In practice, one-trip is as close to new as a shipping container gets in North America. Containers are not built here at any scale, so every steel box in the country arrived on a ship. The only question is how many times it made the trip, and once is the floor.

Watch the language when you shop. Plenty of sellers use the word new for anything that looks presentable, and there is no certification behind it the way there is behind cargo-worthy. One-trip is a description of the container’s actual service, which is a fact you can check by looking at the CSC plate and the paint. When a seller says new, ask what they mean. When we say one-trip, we mean the container crossed once, loaded, and this is it.

Against a certified cargo-worthy used container, the difference is visible from the driveway. A used box carries ten to fifteen years of ports, chains, forklifts, and weather: dents in the side panels, scrapes down to primer, weld patches, and surface rust. It is inspected, wind and water tight, and the floor is solid, and it is the better value per square foot by a wide margin. A one-trip container just does not look like it has done any of that yet.

Buy one-trip when the container is going to be seen. In front of a house, along a street, at a business customers drive past, or anywhere an HOA or a neighbor has an opinion, the appearance gap between $2,500 and $3,950 is the entire argument and it settles itself. Buy one-trip when the container will be opened and closed every day, because new door gear is easier to live with. Buy one-trip when what is going inside is clean, dry, and valuable enough that a spotless floor is worth having.

Buy used when the container is going behind a shop, out on acreage, at the back of a job site, or anywhere the job is holding steel and keeping water off. A used container does that job exactly as well, it is certified wind and water tight, and the money you keep buys a lot of shelving. Most of what we sell for pure storage is used, and that is the right call. Both sit on the inventory page side by side so you can see what you are choosing between.

Straight pricing, confirmed the day you order

Starting prices here are plus tax, and container prices move with the steel market. Send the form or call the yard and we will confirm your exact number, availability, and delivery. Financing available, ask when you request a quote.

The two we stock deepest are the 20ft standard one-trip at $3,950 and the 40ft high cube one-trip at $4,200, both plus tax. From there it is a question of how you want to get into the box. A 20ft with cargo doors at both ends starts at $4,250 and a 40ft standard with doors at both ends is the same $4,250. A 20ft tri-door, which adds a side door set to one end, starts at $4,375. A 20ft with a man door and a rooftop vent starts at $3,950, and it is the one to pick if you will be walking in and out all day and want air moving in summer. The door options page goes through all of it.

A 20ft high cube one-trip, nine foot six of height on a twenty foot footprint, starts at $4,500 and is inbound. If that is what you want, say so when you call and we will tell you where it is in the schedule.

One-trip or used, delivery works the same way. Our own tilt-bed trucks and our own drivers bring it out, and the driver sets it where you want it. A 20ft wants about 60 feet of straight clear run and a 40 about 100 feet, with roughly 12 feet of width and 14 feet of overhead either way. We check access with you before anything is scheduled and quote delivery with the container. Under the box you want a level base at the corners, and our site prep guide covers the options. You are also welcome to come to the yard on Cocoa Avenue and pick the exact one-trip container you want.