20ft Shipping Container
Approx. 33.2 m³
The standard 6.06 m ISO dry container: 33.2 m³ of volume, up to 28 t of payload, and the easiest size to move by road almost anywhere in the world.
Region
Shipping Containers for Buyers Across Europe
New / one trip and used ISO containers supplied against your destination, quantity and required condition, with road delivery quoted from whichever supply point suits the address.
- New & used
- Single & bulk orders
- Road delivery
- Delivered pricing
Within Europe the container purchase and the delivery are a single road movement, which makes pricing straightforward. The unit is sourced from whichever available supply point gives the best delivered price for your address — northern European container stock is concentrated around the major gateways, and which of them suits a given delivery is a question about your destination rather than about ours.
What complicates a European quotation is almost never the distance. It is the last kilometre — the gate width, the ground bearing, the low bridge, the turning circle — and whether the container needs to be lifted or can be tilted off.
Where in Europe the origin is chosen from
Container equipment in northern Europe concentrates around a handful of gateways, and which of them suits a delivery is a question about your destination rather than about ours. For Benelux and northern France that is usually the Rotterdam or Antwerp area; for Germany, Poland and Scandinavia usually Hamburg or Bremerhaven; for the south, the road leg is long enough that options are compared rather than assumed.
VAT and non-EU European destinations
- Intra-EU supply — business-to-business supplies are handled against a valid VAT identification number, which is better supplied with the enquiry than at invoicing
- Switzerland, the UK, Norway and the Western Balkans — outside the customs union, so the movement adds customs formalities and the quotation says who handles them
- Multi-country lots — units delivered to more than one country are quoted as separate movements, because that is what they are
What European buyers actually order
Storage and site use dominate, so 20ft and 40ft dry containers in wind-and-watertight grade are the bulk of European demand. Conversion buyers take 40ft High Cube in one-trip condition; freight buyers take cargo worthy.
Specialist types — reefers, open tops, flat racks — are quoted against a specific requirement rather than held as shelf stock.
How supply and delivery are put together
The container and the transport are one movement, so both are decided against the same thing: where the unit has to end up.
Destination
You give us the endpoint and the specification. The postcode does more work here than anything else on the enquiry.
Supply option
Suitable availability is assessed against that destination rather than against a fixed origin, because the unit that is cheapest at the depot is not always the cheapest on your site.
Transport
The vehicle is chosen by what the site can physically take.
Delivered quotation
Container plus transport plus whatever the access requires, with what is included and what is excluded both stated.
The cheapest container is not the cheapest delivered container
A lower-priced unit sitting further from you can end up more expensive once the road leg is added, and the gap is often larger than the difference in the container price. Supply is therefore selected against the final destination rather than against the headline figure — which is also why we quote delivered rather than ex works by default.
Containers supplied to Europe
Specialist types
New or used
Both are supplied to every market we quote. The choice is about what the container has to do once it arrives.
New / one trip
- Appearance matters at the destination
- Long-term ownership is intended
- The unit will be converted or modified
- Recent production is preferred
Used
- Storage is the primary purpose
- Budget is the deciding factor
- Cosmetic condition is secondary
- Cargo worthy or wind and watertight meets the requirement
Road delivery to your site
Distance is rarely what complicates a European delivery. The last hundred metres is. These four questions decide the vehicle, and the vehicle decides a meaningful part of the price.
Access
Can an articulated vehicle reach the placement point? Gate width, road width and any weight or width restriction on the approach.
Space
A tilt-bed needs room to reverse and to slide the container off — as a guide, its own length again behind it.
Unloading
Tilted off by the vehicle, lifted by a crane truck, or unloaded by equipment you provide. This is the single biggest variable.
Ground
Level, firm and able to carry the corner loads. Soft ground and slopes are what turn a delivery into a return journey.
Container supply by market
Destination pages for the markets we are asked about most. Each one covers what actually differs there rather than restating this page with a different name.
- FranceRoad delivery across France from Benelux and German depots, with the origin chosen by where in France the container is going.
- NetherlandsThe shortest road legs and the deepest depot stock in Europe — Rotterdam is on the doorstep of every Dutch delivery address.
- PolandRoad delivery from German depots and from the Baltic gateways, with Hamburg the usual origin for western Poland.
European logistics gateways
Major container gateways that may be relevant to supply or to international logistics, depending on the transaction. Listing a port here says where equipment concentrates in this trade — it is not a statement that we operate there.
Port delivery options- Hamburg
- Bremerhaven
- Rotterdam
- Antwerp
How a gateway fits the movement
- Supply point
- Road or terminal move
- Gateway port
- Ocean freight
- Destination
What we need in order to quote
Five things. Anything you do not know yet can be marked provisional — a rough quantity is more useful than a blank.
Container
Quantity
Destination
Unloading
Commercial
Frequently asked questions
How is container delivery priced in Europe?
As one figure covering the container and the road movement together. What moves it is the distance from a suitable supply point to your postcode, the vehicle the site can take, and the quantity — several units to one address share the transport leg and price very differently from a single unit.
How quickly can a container be delivered in Europe?
It depends on availability for your specification and on transport, and any number quoted in the abstract would be marketing rather than information. We confirm a date against the actual unit and the actual vehicle when we quote.
Can I order a single container?
Yes. Single units are quoted the same way as lots — the specification questions are identical and only the transport economics change. A single delivery carries the whole road leg, which is why multi-unit deliveries to one address work out materially cheaper per container.
Do you offer crane or side-loader delivery?
Where the site needs it and a suitable vehicle can be arranged for the destination, yes. It is priced as part of the delivery rather than added afterwards, so tell us at enquiry stage whether you can unload, need a crane truck, or are not sure yet — "not sure" is a perfectly good answer and we will work it out with you.
Can I collect from a depot instead?
Collection can be arranged in some cases and is quoted where it is genuinely available for the unit in question. It is worth asking, particularly if you have your own transport, but it is not automatically cheaper once your own haulage is counted.
Do you sell to buyers in every European country?
We quote across the EU and neighbouring countries. Where a destination adds customs formalities — Switzerland, the UK, Norway, the Western Balkans — or where road rules make the movement impractical, we say so before you commit rather than after.
What information do you need for a quote?
Container type and condition, quantity, the delivery postcode and how the unit will be unloaded. A VAT identification number is needed for intra-EU business-to-business treatment, and is better supplied with the enquiry than at invoicing.