Shipping Container Suppliers in New York

A-Verdi Storage Containers runs thirteen yards in New York, from Savannah out to Watertown, Plattsburgh, Bath and Maybrook. That matters because delivery is priced by the mile. Wherever you are in the state, there is almost certainly an A-Verdi lot within a couple of hours, and a shorter haul means a smaller freight bill. Stock runs 10ft, 20ft and 40ft, plus office units and the school storage boxes New York State has approved for district use. They will paint a box in your company colors before it leaves. Ask about condition on the phone. A-Verdi describes its boxes as used, reconditioned or like new rather than by cargo-worthy or one-trip grade, so pin down what you are getting before you pay.

Spano Container names six grades on its for-sale page: new, one-trip, cargo-worthy, wind and water tight, used, and refurbished. Most yards in New York give you two words and a photo, so that vocabulary is worth something when you are spending four figures on steel. The Auburn lot lists units individually by size, grade and color, right down to a tan one-trip 40ft high cube or a red Grade 2 twenty. Trucks and drivers are Spano's own, registered to haul intermodal containers, and the shop builds classrooms, offices and concession stands out of the same boxes. Reach covers seven counties around Syracuse, out to Rochester, Elmira and Rome.

Giant Lock Box publishes what it charges, which is rare enough in this trade to be the reason to call. A cargo-worthy 20ft starts at $2,995 and a 40ft high cube at $4,495, with one-trip units, double doors, open sides and reefers all priced on the same page. The copy is blunt about condition too, saying used means dents and surface rust. Deliveries across New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England go out on their own tilt-beds with their own drivers, usually inside a week. They do not cut, weld or convert anything. If you want a workshop or an office, you buy the shell here and hire a contractor for the rest.

Shanty Box does its own steel work in West Seneca. Windows go in with a welded frame, caulked and primed. Man doors, louver vents, shelving, pipe racks and a full repaint in your company colors are all done in house, on boxes you buy rather than rent. That saves you finding a fabricator afterwards, which is the part most buyers underestimate. You can walk the lot and pick your own unit instead of trusting a photo, and stock is split between one-trip and wind and water tight so you know what you are looking at. Their own trucks deliver across eight counties in western New York, from Buffalo down through Cattaraugus and Allegany.

New York Container & Trailer Inc has been selling boxes off Wellwood Avenue in Lindenhurst since 1997, and the same family still runs it. Nearly thirty years on one Long Island lot shows up in how buyers talk about them afterwards, and the theme that repeats is boring in the best way: the box arrived clean, it arrived on time, and the price at the end matched the price at the start. Sizes run 10ft, 20ft and 40ft, and they will fit partitions, windows, vents or extra doors before delivery. A roll-up door version of the 20ft is worth asking about if you are loading by hand every day.

Viola Storage in Webster builds office containers with the HVAC, windows and lighting already in, which is the difference between a box you can work in on Monday and one that needs an electrician first. Site offices and combination office and store rooms come out of the same yard. Straight storage runs 20ft and 40ft, single or quad door. Delivery reaches four regions from one Webster lot, covering the Finger Lakes, Central New York, the Niagara Frontier and the Southern Tier. Condition language on the site is loose, running from almost new to heavily used, so ask them to describe the exact unit before you commit to it. It is worth pricing the box against other container suppliers nearby.

Mobile On Demand Storage of NY sells into work most yards never see. School districts across Long Island and the five boroughs buy from them, and the company has supplied film and television productions, plus relief work after both September 11 and Hurricane Sandy. That kind of buyer wants a box that fits an odd brief, and there are welders on staff in East Patchogue to do it. Ask for a man door, a roll-up in place of the barn doors, or a fully custom build. Sizes run 10ft, 20ft, 30ft and 40ft, and a 30ft is not a size you see on many lots. No yard sits inside the five boroughs, so a city delivery comes out of Suffolk County.

C & C Container Corp runs four trucks and its own federal carrier authority out of East Durham, which is more rolling stock than most single yard operations in New York keep. Delivery dates come from their own dispatcher rather than a third party hauler with a waiting list, and on a Catskills back road that control is worth having. The yard has traded since 2004. It insulates, wires, fits solar, cuts in windows and doors, and repaints to order. Boxes come in 10ft, 20ft and 40ft, sold cargo-worthy or wind and water tight. Public review volume here is thin, so ask for photos of the actual unit and a couple of references.