Shipping Container Suppliers in California

Midstate Containers lists around 55 containers online with a price on every one. You can see the size, the grade and what it costs before you pick up the phone. Most yards in California make you ask. The three yards sit at Santa Maria, Visalia and Stockton, so the Central Coast, the valley and the Delta all get served from ground nearby. Santa Maria and Stockton take walk-ins, and Visalia works by appointment. Grades run from one-trip down through cargo-worthy and wind and water tight, each one explained in plain words. They have been trading since 2007 and do their own custom work for food, pharmaceutical and event buyers.

Aztec Container opened its Vista yard in 1969, which makes it one of the oldest container businesses still trading in California. Fifty-seven years buys you things a newer yard cannot fake, and the modification shop shows it. Crews there cut in roll-up doors, walk-in doors, vents, electrical, air conditioning and plumbing, and they have built guard shacks, concession stands and mobile medical clinics out of plain boxes. The second and third yards sit at Fontana and French Camp, so a buyer in San Diego and a buyer in the Delta both have steel within a couple of hours. One thing to know before you call. Aztec does not publish grade definitions, so ask exactly what condition you are being quoted.

DPE Enterprises spells out five container conditions on its site, right down to a damaged and total loss tier most yards would rather not mention. You get as-is-where-is, wind and water tight, cargo worthy and one-tripper defined before you ask a single question. That kind of plain talk matters when you are spending three thousand dollars on steel you have not seen. The yard sits on Eubank Avenue in Wilmington, a few minutes from the Port of Los Angeles, and it has been selling to business buyers since 1996. Named buyers include Boeing, LAX and SAIC. Sizes run from 20ft up to 53ft, and the shop cuts in roll-up doors, sliding doors, windows, vents and shelving.

Container Stop grades every box A through D, plus R for refurbished, and tells you what each letter means. A is one-trip, B is cargo worthy with dents, C is wind and water tight and cheapest, D does not make wind and water tight at all. Ask for a C and you know what is coming. The main lot at Paso Robles runs four acres, with a second yard down at Reedley in the valley. Garett Crocker started the business in 2015 by driving 230-mile round trips to Long Beach and delivering the boxes himself. That hauling side is still a service you can buy on its own. They also cut containers to any length between 5ft and 44ft.

Container Solutions builds things out of containers that most yards would turn down. The Concord shop has done water treatment systems, liquid storage tanks, ocean going laboratories and rocket launch test chambers, and it does the structural work rather than farming it out. Ordinary jobs get the same shop. Office conversions, shelving, windows, custom doors, insulation, heating and electrical are all handled on site. The refrigerated side is a business in its own right, with 10ft, 20ft and 40ft high cube reefers in single and three phase. Dry containers here are sold outright rather than rented. Delivery runs on their own truck across the Bay Area, and the company will not put a founding year on paper, so treat the tenure claim carefully.

Select Containers works one yard at Hesperia and hauls out of it across eight Southern California counties. The published delivery list runs to roughly 180 towns, from Santa Monica to Chula Vista and from Santa Barbara out to Twentynine Palms. That is a long way for a box to travel, and it works because the company holds its own motor carrier authority and moves empties up to 45ft as a service you can hire on its own. Cargo worthy here means a certified inspector looked at the unit inside the last twelve months, which is a tighter definition than the trade usually bothers with. Custom lengths get cut on the lot, anywhere from 3ft up to 30ft.

IPME sells boxes to the film business, and Marvel and Warner Bros are both named on the work list. Studio buyers are demanding about finish and deadline, and a yard that survives them tends to be sharp with everyone else too. The Compton lot carries a wide spread of types, including reefers, flat racks, open tops, open sides, double door units and even container bathrooms, in lengths from 10ft up to 53ft. Cargo worthy units are certified by a surveyor rather than by a salesman. Fabrication is the core skill here, covering roll-up doors, windows, lighting, air conditioning, insulation, flooring, plumbing and stair systems. Trading since 2012, with over 700 projects behind them.

Porta-Stor has been renting and selling steel out of Ventura since 1975, and the same family still runs it. Half a century in one town is its own kind of reference. The Better Business Bureau has held them accredited since 2002, which is rare among California container yards, where a rating without accreditation is the norm. Delivery is free, removal is free, and they will respot a box on your site if the job moves. Be clear about what is for sale though. The purchase stock is retired rental units, listed individually by container number, mostly 40ft double door boxes. There is no one-trip path and no published price, so this is a used box or nothing.

AAA Container Sales & Rentals has sold to Mercedes-Benz, Boot Barn, a casino and its own local school district, which tells you more than a spec sheet would. Those are buyers with procurement people and paperwork, and a Fontana yard that keeps them is doing something right. The company is registered as a federal vendor too, so public agencies can buy through it without a fight. It is second generation family run, and the family dates the business to 1974. Delivery and pickup are handled on their own trucks. Fair warning on the website. It lists no sizes, no grades and no prices, so everything gets settled on the phone. Modifications include partitions, shelving, power, vents, windows and lock boxes.

Transport Products Unlimited builds permanent accessory dwelling units out of shipping containers, not just sheds and site offices. Getting a container signed off as somewhere a person can legally live is a different order of work from cutting in a roll-up door. The Vallejo shop also stocks refrigerated container parts, so a broken reefer does not have to become a scrap reefer. Randy Larson started the business hauling containers in 1991 and handed it to his son in 2022. They run their own trucks under state and federal carrier numbers, and they will come to your site to make repairs. Sizes stretch from 10ft to 53ft.

Container Haulers moves containers for a living, and the selling grew out of that. The Sacramento operation runs its own tractors and trailers under California carrier authority, with empty containers listed as the declared cargo. Moving boxes all day teaches a crew how to set one down properly on a tight lot, which is where most delivery days go wrong. Welding is done in house, either at the shop or out at your site, so doors and windows can be cut in after the box has landed. The company has been an LLC since 2016 and belongs to the national portable storage trade body. Set expectations on the buying side though, because no grades or stock lists are published anywhere.

Green Box Rentals has traded in Visalia for twenty years without a single Better Business Bureau complaint on file, which in this trade is worth more than a slick website. And the website is not slick. It barely loads any detail at all, so sizes and prices come from a conversation rather than a page. What you get instead is a small Tulare County outfit run by the same family since 2006, dealing straight with farm and jobsite buyers up and down the valley. The yard builds its own custom units, including 40ft double offices and container canopies for shade. If you want to walk a lot and be told the truth about a box, this is that kind of place.

SUPERBOX runs an actual online store, not a quote form. Sixty-four pages of stock are listed by size and grade with a checkout button, covering one-trip, wind and water tight and used as-is units out of the Santa Fe Springs yard. Rent to own starts around sixty dollars a month if buying outright is not the plan. Delivery is quoted at one to three business days. Two things to weigh against that. The company only started trading in 2021, so there is no long track record to lean on, and the Better Business Bureau currently rates it F with five complaints left unanswered. The buying path is genuinely good. Check the box carefully anyway.