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 Poland
Road delivery from German depots and from the Baltic gateways, with Hamburg the usual origin for western Poland.
- New & used
- Single & bulk orders
- Road delivery
- Delivered pricing
Poland is served from two directions: German depots — Hamburg above all — for the west and centre, and the Baltic gateways at Gdańsk and Gdynia for the north and east. Which is cheaper depends on where in the country the container is going, and the difference over a 700 km spread is not marginal.
Demand is weighted towards construction, logistics and manufacturing: site storage, yard storage and workshop conversions rather than freight equipment.
Routing and origin choice
For destinations west of the Vistula, a Hamburg-area origin is usually the shortest road leg. For the Tricity area and the north-east, Baltic depots are closer. Give us the delivery postcode and we compare rather than defaulting to the German option.
What Polish buyers most often order
20ft and 40ft units in wind-and-watertight grade for site and yard storage, one-trip 40ft High Cube for conversion work, and double door containers where a single unit has to be divided between two users.
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 Poland
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
Is it cheaper to buy through Hamburg or Gdańsk for a Polish delivery?
It depends on the destination. West and centre usually favour Hamburg; the north and east usually favour the Baltic gateways. Provide the postcode and we quote whichever is better.