Dangerous Goods Shipping Containers

In short

What you are getting

• Bunded sump floor sized to contain a spill rather than let it run out the door
• High and low ventilation, hazard placarding and compliance plate
• Built and certified to the relevant Australian Standard for the class stored
• Available in 10ft and 20ft, for sale or hire
• Not a converted general purpose box — a DG unit is a different container from the floor up

A dangerous goods container is not a normal container with a sticker on it. The floor is a sealed bund designed to hold a proportion of the contents if a drum lets go, the ventilation is engineered rather than incidental, the internal fit-out is non-sparking, and the whole thing carries a plate stating what it was built to. That plate is what an inspector or an insurer asks for.

Which standard applies depends on what you are storing. Flammable liquids, oxidising agents, corrosives and toxics all have different requirements, and a unit built for one class is not automatically compliant for another. Tell us the class and the volume before anything else — that determines the container, not the other way around.

Almost everyone buying one has a compliance deadline behind them. Say so when you ring. DG units are made to order more often than they sit in a yard, and lead times are longer than a standard container, so the date matters as much as the specification.