Shipping Container Suppliers in Minnesota

Tom Kraemer, Inc. runs a 12 acre intermodal depot in northeast Minneapolis, which is where a good share of Minnesota's box stock comes off the rail. Sizes run from 10ft up to 45ft, and it is the only yard in the state carrying 45 footers. Every container gets a 17 point inspection and a wind and water tight guarantee before it leaves. The shop on site cuts in roll up doors, man doors, windows, shelving and wiring, so a plain box can go out as a workshop or a site office. Three more yards sit at Cold Spring, Glenwood and Carlton, which shortens the haul for buyers in central and northern Minnesota. The family has been in business since 1938.

Midwest Storage Containers, which trades as Big Blue Boxes, is set up for buyers who have to answer to a procurement office. It is a registered government vendor through SAM, and its containers have shipped to United States compounds overseas. That work means paperwork, inspection records and delivery dates that hold. The company has been accredited by the Better Business Bureau since 2003, so there are more than twenty years of complaint history you can read before you buy. What it sells is deliberately simple, 10ft, 20ft and 40ft standard units in new or used condition, off the New Brighton lot. If you want a reefer or a side door box, look elsewhere. If you want a plain steel box and a clean paper trail, this works.

Citi-Cargo & Storage owns its trucks instead of hiring haulers, and on a normal day more than twenty of them are out on the road. That matters here. A container set on frozen ground in February needs a driver who has placed one before, and a yard that dispatches its own people can send that driver to your site. Four lots sit inside the state, at Blaine, Eagan, Minneapolis and Moorhead. The Moorhead yard is the reason a buyer in the Red River Valley does not have to pay for a box trucked all the way up from the metro. New and used units run 20ft, 40ft and 40ft high cube, with reefers, side door and double door boxes on offer.

Any Way You Want It Storage will cut a box up before it leaves the yard. Roll up doors, man doors, windows, shelving, insulation and wiring are all done in house, so a 40ft unit can arrive as a heated shop instead of a bare steel shell. Three lots carry that work, one at Grand Rapids on the Iron Range and two far to the south at Stewartville and Ellendale. It is the only supplier in Minnesota holding yards at both ends of the state, which cuts the haul for farms and crews a long way from the metro. Buyers can walk the yard and pick the actual container they want. A rent to own path is there if the cash is not ready.

Storage Boxes Etc works the Brainerd Lakes country, and the stock reflects who lives there. Resorts, cabin owners and contractors buy boxes to hold boats, docks, sleds and tools through a winter, and the yard names seventeen towns it delivers to across that area, from Pillager and Baxter up to Outing and Hackensack. A 40ft side door unit is easy to load a boat into, and the 20ft portable offices work for a resort front desk or a job trailer. The business started in 2002 and joined the National Portable Storage Association two years later, which is a long time to keep the same phone number in a small market. Sizes run 10ft, 20ft and 40ft, new or used.

Mid Minnesota Storage has been in business since 1969, which puts it on Highway 10 south of St Cloud through six decades of Minnesota winters. A yard that lasts that long in one place usually knows the ground it delivers on, and central Minnesota has plenty of soft field approaches that swallow a truck in spring. What you get here is plain, 20ft, 40ft and 40ft high cube units, wind and water tight, sold or rented. There is no online catalogue and no price list. You call, you say what you need, and the price comes back. Delivery is charged by the mile, so the number is easy to check before you agree to anything.

Dart Portable Storage keeps two lots inside the metro, one at Eagan and one on Eaton Street in St Paul. For a Twin Cities buyer that is a short haul and a cheap delivery, which on a used 20ft box can be a real slice of the total. The company has been at it since 2004, and the containers it sells come off a working rental fleet, so they have been looked after rather than parked and forgotten. What is for sale is narrow, 20ft and 40ft units plus 53ft semi trailers. Ground level office units are also available if you need a desk on a job site rather than a store room. Grades are not published, so ask what condition you are getting.

Rocksbury Container stocks three door units, full open side boxes, and a 40ft high cube with doors along one whole side plus the end. Plain 20ft and 40ft standards sit alongside them in one trip and used grades. That range matters if you are converting a box rather than just filling it, because the door you need is already cut. The lot at Thief River Falls is the northernmost container yard in Minnesota, which saves a long haul for buyers in the Red River Valley and up toward the Canadian line. The trailer belongs to them and deliveries run seven days a week. Ramps, shelving brackets, leveling jacks and vents go on the same order. The container side is newer than the truck shop it grew out of, so the review history is short.