Shipping Container Suppliers in Maine

Maine Trailer, Inc. runs four container yards, and they are spread out on purpose. You can pick up in Hampden near Bangor, in Auburn, in Mapleton up in Aroostook County, or at the Scarborough lot south of Portland. Maine is close to 500 miles end to end, so that spread cuts a lot of freight off the bill. A potato farm in The County is not paying to truck a box up from the coast. The yard sells one-trip and used units and lists what is actually on the ground, with prices posted on 40ft high cubes. They will cut a box into an office too. The company is a member of the National Portable Storage Association.

SR1 Containers keeps 10ft, 20ft, 40ft and 45ft boxes on the ground in both new and used condition, which is a wider spread of sizes than most Maine yards carry. The 10ft is the one worth knowing about. It fits on a small house lot, and a lot of dealers in this state will not stock one. Stock sits at three yards, in Turner, Hermon and Houlton, and the inventory is listed online so you can see what is there before you drive. The company is employee owned. They also sell office containers, and they run their own logistics arm, so delivery is not farmed out to whoever is free that week.

WillScot runs one Maine yard, on Rodman Road in Auburn, and that lot covers the whole state. The work it does in Maine is mostly job site and institutional. Think school districts adding classroom storage, road crews needing a locked box on site for a season, and contractors who want a ground level office rather than a set of steps. Units for sale come out of a leasing fleet, so what you are buying is used stock the company is rotating out, not a dealer's one-trip inventory. That suits a buyer who cares more about a sound box and a firm delivery date than about paint. Drivers and tilt beds are in house.

Rigby Storage LLC will put a box on your ground the same day or inside 24 hours, which is quick by any standard and very quick for southern Maine. The yard sits on Rigby Road in South Portland, so most of the Portland area is a short run for the truck. Twenty and 40 footers are the two sizes, both steel and ground level, sold or rented. The business has been on that lot since 1998 and holds an A plus rating with the Better Business Bureau. Prices are not published, so you call. For a Portland contractor who found out on Tuesday that the job needs secure storage by Wednesday, that turnaround is the whole point.

Maine Container Depot publishes a price against nearly every unit it sells, and you can buy straight off the site. The range starts around $2,000 for a small used box and climbs past $90,000 for a working reefer, so you know the number before you pick up the phone. Stock covers 10ft through 53ft, high cubes, two, three and four door units, full and sectional open sides, and refrigerated boxes that either run or do not. The yard is on Bangor Road in Ellsworth, 20 miles from Bar Harbor, which puts it right on the Downeast coast. Customer reviews are mixed. Agree the exact grade and condition in writing before you pay.

Land & Sea Storage has been selling and hauling containers out of Hampden since 1999, and it has stayed in local hands the whole time. That kind of run in a small market usually means the phone gets answered and the truck shows up. Sales lead the business, ahead of the rental fleet and the storage lot behind it. Twenty and 40 footers are what they carry, standard boxes, nothing exotic. Delivery reaches across central, northern and eastern Maine, so a camp on the Penobscot or a woodlot operation north of Lincoln is inside the run. Grades and prices are not on the site. Ask what condition the box is in and what the haul adds before you commit.

Kennebec Container Company LLC keeps it simple. Two 20ft options sit on the lot, a one-trip box and a used one, and each carries a price rather than a quote form. You know the grade and the number before you call, and tax and delivery get added on top. The lot is on Small Road in Litchfield, so Augusta, Gardiner and the rest of the Kennebec Valley are a short run for the truck. This is a small family operation rather than a depot, and it shuts for the winter and reopens in mid April. Plan around that. For a single box delivered to a house lot or a small farm, it is a straightforward call.