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.
Europe
Shipping Containers Delivered to the Netherlands
The shortest road legs and the deepest depot stock in Europe — Rotterdam is on the doorstep of every Dutch delivery address.
- New & used
- Single & bulk orders
- Road delivery
- Delivered pricing
The Netherlands is the easiest country in Europe to deliver a container into. Rotterdam holds the largest concentration of container equipment on the continent, road distances are short, and available stock is dense enough that the origin is rarely more than a couple of hours from the destination.
That shows up in two ways: a smaller transport component in the delivered price, and a wider choice of grades and types available on any given week.
Where the value is for Dutch buyers
Because the road leg is short, the container price dominates the quotation — which means grade selection is where the money is. Buying cargo worthy when wind and watertight would do costs more here proportionally than in a country where transport swamps the difference.
The other consequence is choice. If a specific type, colour or condition is not available this week, waiting a short period is often worthwhile in the Dutch market in a way it is not elsewhere.
Access considerations
Dutch sites are frequently constrained by soft ground and by narrow access rather than by distance. Say on the RFQ whether the standing position can take a loaded delivery vehicle — where it cannot, a crane truck placing the unit from a hard access road is the standard answer.
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 Netherlands
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.
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
Can I collect a container from a depot in Rotterdam?
Yes, where the unit stands at a Rotterdam-area depot. Collection requires a vehicle rated for the container and proper securing, and it is normally the cheapest way to take delivery.
Why does a German supplier deliver from Dutch depots?
Because it is cheaper for you. The origin is chosen for the destination. For a Dutch address, insisting on a German depot would add several hundred kilometres of road transport and nothing else.