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Standard Shipping Container Sizes

Two Industry Standard Sizes

Shipping Containers are all built to ISO regulations. For shipping purposes, containers must conform to the same width of 8ft in order to be locked together on board a cargo vessel for safety reasons. There are two different lengths and heights, but the width of all shipping containers is the same.

What are standard shipping container sizes?

Your usual standard shipping container sizes are either 20ft long or 40ft long, 8ft wide, and either 8ft6 or 9ft6 high. However, at Containers Direct, we offer much more than standard shipping container sizes. Our in-house depot and manufacturing facility means we are able to either cut down to size from one of the above ISO controlled boxes, or manufacture a new container from scratch to your exact measurements.

You can see a table of standard shipping container dimensions here.

Available lengths at Containers Direct

Although 20ft and 40ft are common in the industry, we keep in stock a variety of different shipping container sizes as standard in both used condition and once-used. These containers range from 5ft to 39ft in length, and include every size in between. These cut down containers are all still 8ft wide, and either 8ft6 or 9ft6 high, and are typically held in stock with either S1 or S2 style doors.



Popular Optional Extras

New builds

In answer to the growing demand for secure storage, we not only cut down containers to size, but build bespoke sized units for customers who need more, or less, space. We know that the standard shipping container sizes in terms of height and width aren't for everyone. Some customers have items which need more in terms of width, whilst others only have a small space to play with. That's why we decided to expand our depot in order to meet our customers' requirements. All new builds are made with corrugated steel and an 18mm marine ply floor, keeping the security of a regular shipping container and the durability.

We have designed two standard new build products:

The CarTainer® is 10ft wide, and comes in three different lengths: 15ft, 17ft and 20ft. This unique product is specifically designed to allow you to park your car inside, and still be able to open the doors and exit the car. We can offer a variety of customisations to this, including lining and insulating, roller shutter doors etc., however as standard the unit comes with an S1 style door with inbuilt mortice lock for security.


The Slimline® product range is a narrow container for customers who need their storage in a restricted space. They come in widths from 5ft-7ft, and a variety of lengths. The 5ft wide comes with a single door as standard, but 6ft and 7ft wide comes with two doors. We can also offer to build with doors in the side if required, and can build to a variety of heights.



Joined up containers

If a new build or standard shipping container doesn't provide adequate internal space, many of our customers have started asking us for joined up units to provide extra width or extra length. We take two normal shipping containers (or new builds), remove the long or short side of both in matching apertures, and reinforce so the units are suitable to be joined together on site. This increases the internal space considerably, meaning you can have containers which far exceed the standard proportions!

Flat pack containers

Containers Direct are also the UKs biggest retailer of genuine ExpandaStore Flat pack containers . These containers are specifically manufactured to be man portable and built on site, offering our customers a way to have secure storage even on sites where access is too restricted for a lorry.

Our flat pack stores come as standard 2.1m wide, 2.1m high and either 2m, 3m or 4m in length. One of the benefits of the flatpack range is that they are modular and able to be joined together to form much larger spaces if required.

We also offer a range of flat pack offices suitable as a garden office (2.3m wide and high, and 2.3m, 3.3m or 4.3m long) or our 20ft Site Office which provides a man portable option for a construction site (6m long by 2.3m wide and 2.3m high).

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Testimonials

As a long established and reputable shipping container company, we want to instil confidence in our customers that we can deliver on our promises, and provide high quality products and service.

But don't just take our word for it, see for yourself what our past and present clients have to say about Containers Direct.
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"Overall very pleased with everything."Kevin Williams, Parklands Services NW Ltd
9th December 2024
order - a Used 10ft Container
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"I would recommend you to anyone wanting a container office, it's way better than I could've imagined. So much so that my wife is now going to purchase one for her business."Graeme Stuart
29th November 2024
order - a 10ft Modibox Office
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"The delivery person was great. Helpful and jolly."Knowlands
20th November 2024
Ordered a 3m Flat Pack Store Container
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"A great service and quality product. Everything went to plan and we are very happy with the outcome, thanks!"Day's Rental
15th November 2024
Ordered a Used 12ft Container
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"Excellent service from all concerned from start to finish. Communications from order to delivery was excellent. The instructions were straight forward and easy to follow. From start to finish it took us about an hour to have it up, secured and ready to use."Bruce Graham
14th November 2024
Ordered a 3m Flat Pack Store Container
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"Just wanted to say a big thank you for your seamless and professional customer service when looking after me when purchasing my container."Kerry, Salon On The Hill
13th November 2024
Ordered a Used 20ft Container
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Committed to Quality

We are ISOQAR Approved; certified to the ISO standard relating to Quality Management Systems, demonstrating our Company's commitment to quality. We are also members of MakeUK who champion and celebrate British manufacturing and manufacturers, and member of the Container Self Storage and Traders Association; an international organisation representing the interests of Container Self-Storage Operators, Traders and Innovators.
ISOQAR Approved
ISO Cert No. 13586-QNS-001
ISO 9001:2015
Member of MakeUK
Member of the Container Self Storage and Traders Association
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