10ft10ft Shipping Containers
The side passage is narrow, the council setback leaves you nothing to play with, or all you need is somewhere lockable for a mower, a compressor and a rack of tools.
Used from$4,350
New from$6,400
Gold Coast, QLD
Shipping containers Gold Coast
Getting a container to the Gold Coast is nothing. Getting it onto the block is the whole job. The M1 runs a truck to any postcode from Coomera to Coolangatta without drama, and then you meet a canal-front lot with a two-metre side gate, a body corporate with an opinion, and sand that a truck's rear duals will find the bottom of.
- Delivered from
- Port of Brisbane and the Yatala–Stapylton industrial corridor
- Typical lead time
- Usually 2–4 business days; add a day where a crane is booked
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray where there is side access; crane truck for canal blocks and anything lifted over a house or fence
Every enquiry answered within one business day.You hear back from a person, not an autoresponder. Enquiries that land on a weekend are answered the next business day.
The practical read on this town.
Common uses in and around town
Around Gold Coast we deliver containers for storage for tourism and hire operators who need gear locked away between seasons, site stores on the constant run of knockdown-rebuild jobs from Mermaid to Paradise Point, trade storage on the industrial land at Yatala, Molendinar, Burleigh and Currumbin, event and festival gear that only comes out twice a year, board, bike and boat storage where a garage was never going to be enough, and machinery storage on the hinterland acreage through Currumbin Valley and Tallebudgera.
How the drop usually goes
The canal blocks are the signature Gold Coast delivery problem. From Sorrento and Broadbeach Waters through Mermaid Waters, Clear Island Waters, Runaway Bay and Hope Island, the lots are wide at the water and narrow at the street, the house fills the width of the block, and there is no side access at all — often not even a gate wide enough for a mower. There is nothing wrong with those sites, they simply are not tilt-tray sites. They are crane sites. A crane truck sets up on the street, lifts the container over the roofline and sets it down in the back yard, and the questions that decide whether it works are all about what is overhead and what is underfoot: power and comms lines across the frontage, palms and figs, and whether the street is wide enough for the outriggers without closing it. Apartments and gated estates bring a different constraint. Body corporate approval, a booked loading dock window, height limits in basements and a building manager who needs notice are all normal, and they are all much easier to sort out a week before delivery than on the day. Then there is sand. The whole coastal strip from Coombabah down to Kirra is sand over a high water table, and dry beach sand carries almost nothing. A loaded truck can sit down to the axles on a nature strip that looked perfectly solid. Behind the strip, the fill in the older canal estates has been sitting for decades and is generally fine, but the newer cut blocks are not. We would rather bring ply or timber and spread the load than pull a truck out of your front lawn. The hinterland is a third case again. Springbrook, Currumbin Valley, Tallebudgera Valley and the Numinbah road are steep, narrow and hard against the bank in places, with low branches and single-lane bridges. A 20ft goes up there comfortably. A 40ft is a conversation.
Grade moves the price more than size does, and it is what decides whether a unit is sold watertight — the full rundown is on the grades page.
The range
Containers we deliver to Gold Coast
Guide prices in AUD, ex GST. Delivery is quoted with the container.
10ft
20ft20ft Shipping Containers
You have about seven metres of straight, reasonably level ground to put it on and you would rather not find out in six months that you should have gone bigger.
Used from$2,200
New from$3,300
40ft40ft Shipping Containers
You have the room, the access is genuinely open, and you want the most storage per dollar available anywhere.
Used from$2,600
New from$5,500
Gold Coast
Lifting over the house on a canal block
A crane delivery is not exotic on the Gold Coast, it is routine, but it does need more information up front than a tilt-tray drop. What we need to know is the distance from where the truck can legally stand to where the container is going, the height of anything in between — roofline, palms, pergola, pool cage — and whether there are overhead services across the street frontage. A crane truck's reach falls away sharply as the boom goes out, so a container going twenty metres over a two-storey house is a much bigger machine than the same container going eight metres over a fence.
Street width matters as much as reach. The outriggers need firm, level ground and a footprint wider than the truck, which on a narrow canal cul-de-sac can mean temporarily blocking the road. That is manageable with notice and neighbours who know it is happening. The single most useful thing you can do is stand at your front gate, take a photo looking at the house, another looking up at the powerlines, and a third from the back yard toward the street. Those three tell us more than a page of description and they get the job priced properly the first time.
On the ground
Sand, water table and what goes underneath
On the coastal strip the container itself is rarely the problem — the ground is. Sand drains beautifully and carries badly, and a container corner casting is concentrating a couple of tonne onto a footprint the size of a dinner plate. Straight onto sand or onto thin turf over sand, it will sink unevenly and the doors will start to bind within a few months. Concrete pads or hardwood sleepers under the four corners, bedded level and checked on both diagonals, fix it permanently and cost very little. On blocks with a high water table — which is most of the strip — get the floor a hundred millimetres or more off the ground so air moves underneath and the underside stays dry rather than sitting against damp sand for a decade. The same setup makes it far easier to lift and shift later if you sell the place or reconfigure the yard, because a container that has bedded itself into wet ground has to be dug free before a truck can get near it.
Worth knowing
Hire that matches a season
A lot of Gold Coast demand runs on a calendar. Gear that is needed from September through to Easter and then has to be somewhere secure and dry until the next season. Builders who want a site store for the eight months of a rebuild and not a day longer. Hire operators who scale up over summer and want the storage to scale back down again in June. Event and market traders whose entire business fits in a 20ft between weekends. Hire suits every one of those, because it means you are not carrying an asset through the quiet half of the year and not solving the problem of what to do with it afterwards. It also means the container can be swapped for a bigger or smaller one if the requirement changes, which a purchase does not let you do without selling and buying again.
Buying makes better sense where the container becomes part of how the place works — a permanent store on an industrial lot at Yatala, a workshop out the back of a hinterland block, a lock-up that will still be there in ten years. Every cargo-worthy unit is checked wind and watertight before it leaves the yard, which is the grade to be asking for if it is going to live outdoors on the coast permanently. As-is units are cheaper and honest about what they are — they are not sold as watertight, and on a salt-air block that difference will show up sooner than it would inland.
What delivery to Gold Coast costs
Delivery is quoted with the container. It moves with the distance, the truck the site needs and how hard the last thirty metres are, so we price it per job rather than publish a figure that would be wrong for half the addresses here.
Give us the address and a rough idea of the entry and we will do the working out at our end.
Other areas we deliver to
We also deliver to Coomera, Nerang, Burleigh Heads, Robina, Tweed Heads and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Gold Coast
Can you crane a container into a Gold Coast canal-front back yard?
Yes, and on those blocks it is usually the only way, since most canal lots have no usable side access. A crane truck stands on the street, lifts the container over the house and sets it down in the yard. What decides feasibility is reach and clearance: how far the container has to travel horizontally, what height it has to clear, whether there are power lines across your frontage, and whether the street is wide enough for the outriggers. Photos from the gate, the yard and looking up at the lines let us answer properly.
Do I need body corporate approval for a container at a Gold Coast unit complex?
Almost certainly, and it is worth starting that conversation early because approval and a booked delivery window are two separate things. Complexes typically want notice, a nominated time, evidence of insurance from the transport operator, and a route that does not use a basement with a height limit a truck cannot meet. None of that is difficult, but it is very hard to arrange on the morning of delivery. Get the approval in hand first and then let us book a truck around the window you have been given.
Will a container sink into sand on a Gold Coast block?
It will settle unevenly if it is placed straight onto sand or thin turf, because each corner casting concentrates a serious point load. The fix is cheap and permanent: concrete pads or hardwood sleepers under the four corners, bedded level, so the load spreads. It also keeps the underside off the ground, which matters more here than inland because of the high water table. We will do that levelling on delivery where the site allows — mention the ground type at the quote so we bring the right gear.
Can you deliver up into the Gold Coast hinterland?
Regularly. Springbrook, Currumbin Valley, Tallebudgera Valley, Numinbah and the Tamborine side are all serviced, but the roads change what is sensible. They are narrow, steep in sections, hard against the bank, and there are low branches and single-lane bridges that a long rigid truck has to be driven for rather than simply driven. A 10ft or 20ft goes up there without much fuss. A 40ft needs the approach checked first, and on some of those roads the honest answer is two 20ft instead — which usually gives you more useful space anyway. Send the address and a photo from the road looking at your gate and we will tell you what will make it.
Get a price
Ask us what fits your site
We deliver to Gold Coast and the surrounding district. Tell us what is going in it and what the access is like, and you will get a price with the cartage worked out. Every enquiry answered within one business day.
Or skip the form and ring us — 0477 410 500, Mon–Fri 7:30am–5pm, Sat 8am–12pm