BUY NEW OR USED SHIPPING CONTAINERS IN MINNEAPOLIS, MN
If you’re looking to buy shipping containers in the Minneapolis, MN, Area, you’ll want to speak with the experts at Container Management, Inc. We offer a large inventory of new and used steel shipping containers for purchase.
How to Buy A Shipping Container in Minneapolis
Our process is personalized to best meet your individual container needs.
Buying shipping containers is a seamless process with our efficient, customized system.
At Container Management, Inc., we ensure that you get the container size and grade that best meets your specific needs.
Step 1: Complete Our Quote Request Form
Our quote form ensures you provide us with the important details:
- How many containers?
- New or Used?
- Do you want us to deliver the container?
- Where do you want to place the container: City, State, Zip Code
- What grade container?
- Storage or Export?
- Your email address and phone number
Step 2: You Receive Our Quote
We email you back the same business day with our quote provided we receive your quote request by 4:00 PM EST, Monday through Friday.
We will email you back the next business day with our quote if we receive your quote request later than 4:00 PM EST, Monday through Friday.
Our quote is based on current inventory levels at the depot site(s) closest to your delivery location. Inventory at each depot site is subject to change. Prices are based on current availability. Once current inventory is depleted, prices may vary with the next inventory replenishment.
We offer some of the most competitive wholesale pricing on the market by quoting according to current inventory availability.
Step 3: Your Purchase
You provide us with a purchase order or email indicating your intent to purchase.
We will confirm your purchase by reserving your container size and grade at the nearest depot location. You’ll get the next container off the stack at the depot that meets your order criteria.
We can’t guarantee a specific color, but all of our containers are warrantied to be wind and watertight at the time of delivery.
We require payment in full at this point before moving to Step 4 Delivery or Pick-Up.
Our Operations Team will be in touch within one business day to confirm your order and accept payment.
Once your order has been paid for in full, they will coordinate the logistics of your shipping container delivery or depot pick-up.
Step 4: Ground Level Container Delivery or Depot Pick-Up
For delivery: We work with professional local transport companies with specialized equipment to deliver your container directly to the ground.
You’ll know what day your container delivery is scheduled for within a day or two of placing your order, and the driver will give you a call when they’re en route on the day of delivery.
Plan on 4 to 7 business days for shipping container purchases.
Learn more about our delivery service here.
For depot pick-up: After purchase, we will provide you with a release number and pick-up information. You can then immediately go to the designated depot on the release and have the container loaded on your truck.
We’re happy to load your truck at the depot if you have the proper equipment to safely transport a shipping container.
Please be aware you are required to comply with all DOT and OSHA rules while at the depot and Container Management, Inc. cannot be liable for any issues during transport.
Option: If you’re purchasing your container for export
If you’re buying a shipping container to be used for export, you can add a CSC Survey to your purchase (please note, surveys add 3-5 business days to the normal timeline).
We are happy to provide a cargo worthy (CW) container, as well as coordinate an export certification from a licensed surveyor at the depot prior to your trucker picking up the container.
Learn more about ocean export shipments here.
Types of Shipping Containers for Sale – Minneapolis
Container Management, Inc. is proud to offer new and used shipping containers for sale near Minneapolis, MN. Whether you need a 20-foot or 40-foot container, we'll help you find the perfect container to fit your needs. Select any of the containers below or read our Buying Guide to learn more.
You can also contact our team or request a quote, and one of our specialists will be happy to assist you.
Shipping Containers Available Within a 200-mile Radius of Minneapolis, MN
We offer you options; you can pick up your shipping container or have us deliver it to you.
Option 1: Pick Up Your Shipping Container at the Minneapolis, MN, Depot Station
You can opt to pick up a shipping container you’ve purchased. Pickup is at our depot site in the 55418 Minneapolis zip code.
At the time of purchase, we’ll assign a container release number. This number allows you (or your freight forwarder) to access your purchased shipping container(s) during the specified timeframe at the Minneapolis depot.
Option 2: Receive Your Shipping Container Within 200 Miles of Minneapolis, MN
Instead of picking up your shipping container, you can choose to have us deliver it to your location (within a 200-mile radius of the Minneapolis depot). This includes the following approximate delivery areas:
- City of Minneapolis, St. Paul, and nearby suburbs
- North, Northwest, or West of Minneapolis within 200 miles
- Most of Western Wisconsin
- Parts of Northern Iowa
Is the Minneapolis Depot the Optimal Depot for Your Shipping Containers?
Our delivery area is within a 200-mile radius of the depot center nearest you.
If you live in northwestern Wisconsin, you’re closest to our Minneapolis depot. But if you live in southwestern Wisconsin, you may be closer to our Chicago, IL, location.
Furthermore, some Iowans will be closest to the Minneapolis depot, while others will be nearer to our Omaha, Nebraska depot. A few, such as those in the Quad Cities or Dubuque, IA, are closest to the
Chicago depot.
Best Pricing
Wherever you live, we’ll help you find the optimal shipping container and depot, so you save on freight and overall costs.
Not sure if you’re within our Minneapolis shipping service area? Just ask!
Option 3: For Shipping Container Deliveries More Than 200 Miles From a Depot Site
For deliveries beyond 200 miles, we use a flatbed truck broker. In this case, you must be able to lift your container off the flatbed truck when it arrives.
Sizes of New and Used Shipping Containers You Can Buy in Minneapolis, MN
We sell all sizes of
new and used steel shipping containers in the Minneapolis, northern Iowa, and northwestern Wisconsin areas:
- 20-foot containers
for storage or customization
- 40-foot containers
(8 feet, 6 inches high)
- 40-foot high-cube containers (9 feet, 6 inches high)
- Other shipping container sizes
Midwest Farmers Silo Seeds, Grains, and More in Shipping Containers
Approximately 85% of Iowa, 51% of Minnesota, and 30% of Wisconsin is farmland. Corn and soybeans are among the most valuable crops in all three states. Hog farming is also profitable in Minnesota and Iowa. In Wisconsin, dairy products (by far) and, to a lesser extent, cattle also top the list.
Unsurprisingly, savvy farmers use shipping containers to store farm equipment and/or to silo crops.
Farm Implement Storage in Shipping Containers
For example, farm implements are often housed in new and used shipping containers. This expands and extends the size and locations of barns and reduces overhead costs.
Siloing Seed and Grain Shipping Containers
Moreover, Midwest farmers have converted shipping containers into seed, feed, and grain siloes. This extends storage capacity, especially during peak times.
Modified with wooden bulkheads, these shipping containers offer an additional advantage of reducing spillage compared to traditional grain siloes. As a result, this deters vermin—especially mice and rats.
Minneapolis Industries and Manufacturers Buy Shipping Containers for Storage
But farmers are not the only ones buying shipping containers in the upper Midwest.
Midwest Manufacturers Buy Shipping Containers
Midwest and Minnesotan companies buy steel shipping containers for varied purposes.
For example, Minnesota is home to St. Paul’s 3M, Rochester’s IBM, Wayzata’s Cargill, and many other well-known manufacturing and medical device companies. Plus, many other Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Minnesota. Among others, these household names include UnitedHealth Group, Dayton Hudson (Target), Best Buy, and Supervalu.
Midwestern manufacturers extend warehousing capabilities with storage containers for both raw materials and finished goods—particularly during peak production periods.
From commercial construction to windmill farms, Minnesotan industries also use shipping containers as mobile sites to store construction equipment.
Other companies, such as paper suppliers, store machinery.
Still others, such as financial, healthcare, or insurance companies, must retain tax records and other documents for seven to ten years. For Minnesotans and other Upper Midwest businesses, shipping containers solve the conflict of maintaining aging records and workable office space.
Individuals Use Shipping Containers to Extend Storage Capacity
Most Americans have too much “stuff.” And Midwesterners in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa are no exceptions.
Shipping Containers Resolve the Storage Dilemma
Although some Americans sell, donate, gift, or toss excess “stuff,” most simply find new places to store their treasures.
For many, this means buying a shipping container to place on their land.
Others choose to rent space. Indeed, about one in 11 Americans pays a monthly fee of more than $91 to secure storage locations. From 1984 to 2022, the quantity of U.S. storage units grew nearly sevenfold, from 6,600 to more than 50,000. And these units are not sitting empty; the vacancy rate is just eight percent.
Moreover, many rental facilities are collections of used shipping containers.
Who Needs More Storage and Why
Nationally, GenXers (54 percent) and Baby Boomers (51 percent) are most often using self-storage. Millennials (40 percent) are also showing increased interest in storage options.
About one-third of these people using self-storage have downsized, 27 percent are moving (but not downsizing), and one-fourth report they don’t have enough space at home. In fact, nearly
half of Wisconsinites have storage units.
What’s in the Storage Container?
What are Minnesotans, Iowans, and Wisconsinites saving?
Everything in Storage Containers
If they trend true to national data, they’re accumulating:
- Furniture (their own and those of their adult children)
- Clothing
- Home appliances and old electronics
- Music, hobby, and sporting gear
- Business-related items
- Nostalgia—trophies from the good old days, grown children’s toys, books, and homemade art projects
- Family heirlooms
- Seasonal storage
Seasonal Storage in Shipping Containers
Holiday decorations grace many shipping and storage containers, and 84% of Americans decorate for Christmas.
What’s the most popular holiday decoration in Minnesota? Iowa? Wisconsin?
Minnesotans prefer snowflake decorations. Iowans bedeck homes with snowmen. And Wisconsinites favor gnomes—a Scandinavian tradition.
However, when Frosty (or Gnome-y) is made of plastic, ceramic, or inflatable polyester, he must be stowed three seasons of the year. Similarly, Minnesotans must take down snowflake lights in January—or at least by spring.
Shipping containers are a popular solution for many, especially those with the land to accommodate them.
Creative Uses of Shipping Containers in and Near Minneapolis, MN
Besides silos, storage, and temporary construction sites, shipping containers are also used in novel ways in the Minneapolis Area.
We Deliver Shipping Containers Within a 200 Mile Radius of Minneapolis, MN
Container Management, Inc. can deliver your shipping container anywhere within a 200 mile radius of Minneapolis.
This means we can deliver your shipping container to other prime locations near Minneapolis, including:
- Saint Paul, MN
- Maple Grove, MN
- Bloomington, MN
- Blaine, MN
- St Cloud, MN
- Mankato, MN
- Rochester, MN
- Brainerd, MN
- Cloquet, MN
- Duluth, MN
- Marshall, MN
- Winona, MN
- Eau Claire, WI
- Chippewa Falls, WI
- La Crosse, WI
- Wisconsin Rapids, WI
- Wausau, WI
- Stevens Point, WI
- Mason City, IA
- Waterloo, IA
- Fort Dodge, IA
Contact us today to find out if our Minneapolis location is the best option for delivering your shipping container.
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About Us
Container Management, Inc. is a multi-generational family-owned and -operated container Wholesaler, founded in 1993 to serve our customers with exemplary customer service and competitive wholesale pricing.
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