Shipping container products and services from Containers Direct

Containers Direct have over fifteen years’ experience in the shipping container industry, which in recent years has rapidly grown from retailing basic containers for storage to modifying and converting them in our five acre depot to meet our clients’ needs. These days converted shipping containers can be found everywhere in many different guises. You may not realise that the pop-up coffee shop you stop by on the way to work is actually made from a shipping container; or that the office or den in your friend’s back garden is a shipping container beneath the attractive exterior of wood-cladding and patio doors! The possibilities for using shipping containers are vast – if you can think it, we can make it!

Reasons to choose shipping containers

So what’s all the fuss about shipping containers? Once you understand the qualities of a good shipping container, it all makes sense:

• Strong – made from Corten steel they are incredibly robust, weatherproof and made to last
• Secure – their steel construction, which includes the lockbox, makes it very challenging for thieves and vandals to break into
• Versatile – a shipping container is a blank canvas for modifications
• Economical – compared to the cost of other types of buildings, containers win hands-down
• Portable – they can be moved whenever relocation is required
• Eco-friendly – recycling existing materials for building reduces our carbon footprint

Popular shipping container conversions and modifications

Containers Direct are kept busy working on shipping containers to fulfil any request. Some of our most popular modifications include:

• A choice of sizes and door types
• Ply lining and insulation
• Office conversions
• Retail and catering units
• Garages
• Workshops
• Wood cladding

Other container products – flat pack and new builds

We also retail a range of flat pack containers which are ideal to deliver and assemble in places that are inaccessible to shipping containers – most commonly back gardens!

Bespoke new builds containers are made “from scratch” in our workshop, for clients that require dimensions outside of standard shipping container sizes.

For people that just want to buy a shipping container for storing anything from the overspill of contents from your home, garden stuff, bikes and hobby equipment, or as a temporary store for to make moving house easier, Containers Direct are happy to sell a “no-frills” container, in any length between 5ft and 40ft.