Shipping containers Brisbane

What Brisbane uses the space for.

In Brisbane the space usually goes to site storage on the estates going up at Ripley, Yarrabilba and North Lakes, lockable trade storage across the industrial belts at Rocklea, Wacol, Geebung and Northgate, household storage during the renovation of an inner-north Queenslander, gear storage for the trades working the CBD towers, and shell units for fitout businesses in the Darra and Coopers Plains workshops.

Depot stock and what it means for your delivery date

Containers come off whichever depot is holding your size in your grade, and around Brisbane those depots are a short run away rather than a state away. How soon one can go out depends on what is standing in that grade and where the truck schedule is up to, so we confirm the date when the order is placed rather than guessing at it beforehand.

The date moves when you want something less common — a 10ft, a high cube in a specific colour, or a new single-trip when the last vessel has cleared. It also moves after heavy rain, because the ground you want it placed on stops carrying a loaded truck long before the road does. If your date is fixed, say so when you enquire and we will work backwards from it rather than quoting an optimistic number.

Delivering into Brisbane.

Brisbane is two delivery problems in one city. The industrial belts and the outer growth corridors — Wacol, Berrinba, Ripley, North Lakes, Redland Bay — are the simple end of Brisbane delivery: wide gates, level hardstand and space for the truck to line up and turn. The inner ring is the opposite, and it is worth thinking about before you order. Paddington, Bardon, Red Hill, Woolloongabba, New Farm and most of the inner north are steep, narrow-fronted and full of high-set Queenslanders on small blocks with a single-width drive down one side, established figs and jacarandas over the road, and low-strung services on timber poles. A tilt-tray that fits down the street still needs height to raise its deck and length behind it for the container to slide clear. Where that is not there, the answer is a crane truck, which costs more and works. Photos of the entrance, the approach and the drop spot let us name the vehicle before the delivery is quoted.

Then the site itself: firm ground for the truck, a straight line to the spot and nothing overhead. A photo of each answers most questions — see the delivery checklist.

Brisbane questions, answered.