Best Quality Shipping Containers for Your Money

If you're running a storage facility or purchasing a container that will be in a highly visible area where the appearance of the storage container is important, one trip, or new, shipping containers are the best way to go for several reasons - color, condition, and interior  are the three main reasons.

Shipping Container Color

New shipping containers are typically a solid color - tan or white are the most common colors.  They blend easily with your surroundings, and they don't stick out in nearly any environment.

On a used shipping container the paint may be fading, chipped, or some crazy color that you'll need to paint over.  Repainting a shipping container can cost around $600 or more.

Shipping Container Condition

On a new shipping container the doors, locking gear, and hinges are all freshly oiled, and swing easily.  Your clients, or the people using the container will have no problem opening the doors, closing and locking them, and they'll require very little maintenance.

Used shipping containers may have a lot of grease, which isn't an issue in itself; but the doors may not swing as naturally as a new container, and they may require some effort to push shut and lock them.  To make the doors swing freely you'll need to have them squared up, re-greased, and any dents worked out.

Shipping Container - Condition of the Inside

A new shipping container will have fresh, clean floors and no odors.  The plywood floors will have no gouges or damage and no stains or discoloration.

A used shipping container may have stained floors, or gouges and chips out of the flooring and need to be repaired.  Depending on the amount of work and condition of the floors, it could be over $100 to replace the flooring.

Comparing New and Used Shipping Containers

The price of a new shipping container is normally $1000-$1500 more than a used shipping container.  If the price is substancially lower, you'll probably need to invest a lot of money to get it into good working order. Not only money, but you'll have to wait for the repairs and refurbshment to be completed - meaning that you can't rent it out until it's repaired.  Click here to learn more about refurbished shipping containers.

Do your own math, if you can't wait for your unit and want a clean, fresh looking container.

Summer Time = Cheap Shipping Containers for Sale

Need a shipping container for your summer project, portable business office, or other on-site storage project?  The summer time, is the right time, to buy a container!  The inventories are well stocked, and they're often sold at cheaper rates due to higher inventories.

ContainerAuction.com has partnered with a few of it's key sellers to put together a list of cities with containers that must be sold at cheap prices; and if you're in or near one of these cities you can get a great unit for a low price.

In target cities around the US and Canada you can find sellers have 20' used containers in cargo worthy condition starting at auction for $1500, and used 40' containers in cargo worthy condition with auctions starting at $1950.  These are wholesale prices that are only available for a short period of time.

New 20' shipping containers starting at $2600, and new 40' shipping containers starting at $4200.

Once the existing inventory is cleared out, prices will return to normal and your chance of getting a great deal may be gone.