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NEW & USED SHIPPING CONTAINERS FOR SALE IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY

If you’re looking for shipping containers for sale in the Louisville, Kentucky, 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 and excellent customer service.

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Pick Up or Receive Delivery of Your Container Within a 200-Mile Radius of Louisville

We offer options; you can pick up your container or have us deliver it to you.


Pick Up Your Container at the Louisville, Kentucky, Depot Station

Our primary Louisville depot site for pickup is in the 40219 zip code area.


When you buy your shipping container from us, we’ll give you a shipping container release number. This release number allows you or your freight forwarder access to your purchased container(s) for pickup during the specified timeframe at the Louisville depot.

Receive Delivery of Your Shipping Container Within 200 Miles From Louisville, Kentucky

If you cannot pick up your purchased shipping container at our depot site, we can deliver your container to you within 200 miles of Louisville, Kentucky.


This includes the following areas:


  • City of Louisville and its suburbs
  • North: halfway to our Indianapolis depot
  • Northeast: halfway to our Cincinnati depot
  • East: 200 miles
  • South: 200 miles
  • West: halfway to our St. Louis depot

If you’re in Southern Indiana, Ohio, or Illinois, you may also be within 200 miles from another depot site. For example, you may be closer to our depot in Indianapolis, Indiana; Cincinnati, Ohio; or St. Louis, Missouri. In Southwestern Kentucky, you may be closer to our Nashville, Tennessee, depot.

Is the Louisville Depot the Optimal Depot of Origin for Your Shipping Container?

Not sure if you’re within our Louisville, Kentucky, shipping service area? Just ask! We’ll help you find the least expensive container and lowest freight costs to meet your needs.


For Shipping Container Deliveries More Than 200 Miles From a Depot Site

For deliveries beyond 200 miles, we use a flat-bed truck broker that requires you to lift off containers at arrival.

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Sizes of New and Used Containers You Can Buy in Louisville, Kentucky

We sell all sizes of new and used steel shipping containers in the Louisville, Kentucky, area. These include:

Learn about shipping container grades and the difference between cargo worthy and wind-watertight containers.

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Louisville Industries and Manufacturers Buy Cargo Worthy Containers for Export

Louisville manufacturing industries use cargo worthy containers to export their goods. In October 2021, Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) reopened a Louisville, Kentucky, intermodal terminal to transport ocean cargo containers to the Port of Virginia.

Popular Kentucky Exports Travel in Cargo Containers

Medical and other donations are noteworthy exports from Louisville. Moreover, Kentucky bourbon is a frequent Louisville export.


Exports of distilled spirits from Kentucky grew to $488.6 million in 2019 but dropped during the 2020 pandemic because of high tariffs. In all, 95% of the world’s bourbon is produced in Kentucky.

However, top Kentucky exports by dollar amount also include:



  • Aerospace products and parts ($10.4 billion) from more than 100 aerospace-related facilities, such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies, Boeing, L3Harris, and Northrop Grumman
  • Pharmaceuticals and medicines ($3.3 billion), including antisera and other blood fractions ($1.41 billion), diagnostic or laboratory reagents ($960 million), and more
  • Automotive vehicles and parts ($3.8 billion), such as diesel engines
  • Resin, rubber, fiber, and filament ($1.3 billion)

Top Destination Countries for Kentucky Exports in Cargo Containers

In 2021, the top export destinations from Kentucky were:


  • Canada
  • Mexico
  • United Kingdom
  • China
  • France

How You Can Buy Your Own Containers for Kentucky Exports

As an exporter, you can buy a shipping container and then load, seal, and ship your goods overseas in your own container. Many Louisville area industries do just this.

How Louisvillians Save Money on Exports

Containers owned by the shipping company must remain at the port, particularly in countries with embargoes.


By contrast, if you buy your own shipping containers, exported goods in sealed cargo containers can be transported the entire distance—from their original location (often the manufacturer) to their final destination (usually the end-seller)—without loading and unloading goods between legs of the journey.


This saves money and time in two ways:



  • It avoids the cost and time of unloading and reloading goods at the destination port (particularly in embargoed countries).
  • Unlike shipper-owned containers, no per diem charge applies if your container remains at your or your customer’s facility for an extended period.

How Container Management, Inc., Helps Streamline Your Export Process

Furthermore, all containers traveling overseas must be certified for their seaworthiness. If you plan to export goods, Container Management Inc. will work with surveyors who can appropriately certify your containers for ocean shipping.


We can help you make the import/export process work.

Shipping Containers Bring Relief to Under-served Kentucky Communities

On land, shipping containers have advanced the Kentucky economy and standard of living. For example, the “Opportunity Corner” has been home to customized shipping containers that serve as offices and a resource center for entrepreneurs in the Russell community in west Louisville since 2019.

  • Shipping Containers Fulfill a Need for Affordable Housing

    Many shipping containers are transformed into homes. 


    For example, upcycled shipping containers became a 25-unit tiny home community for homeless Kentucky veterans. Located near Dixie Highway and Stuart Avenue, the community is called Camp Restoration and broke ground in March 2020. 


    Furthermore, Kentucky Habitat for Humanity says it can offer shipping container homes for about half the cost of a typical Habitat home. This provides an alternative for Kentucky retirees and others with the most limited incomes in the Blue Grass area. 


    Habitat for Humanity also built shipping container homes in West Liberty, Kentucky, an Appalachian town where more than 18 percent of the population lives in poverty. Hardin County Habitat for Humanity also built homes from shipping containers near E-town.

  • Trendy Shipping Container Homes in Louisville

    However, not all shipping container homes are modest, tiny homes. Three 40-foot shipping containers comprise the 1280-square-foot, three-bedroom, 1.5-bath home at Logan and East Breckenridge Streets in Louisville’s Smoketown neighborhood. 


    Moreover, the hip, artsy neighborhood of NuLu is home to shipping container rental homes. The four housing rentals made from customized shipping containers at South Wenzel and East Jefferson Streets in Derby City became available in 2022. Two of these Phoenix Hill neighborhood rentals are residential homes, and two are available on Airbnb. 


    Likewise, Lexington, Ky, is home to shipping container apartments built with stacked shipping containers. Three of these four apartments are Airbnb rentals.

  • Shipping Containers as Construction Offices

    Furthermore, Kentucky contractors often buy our shipping containers for offices in shipping yards, at construction sites, and other temporary worksites.

Not Just Your “New” Kentucky Home

However, Kentuckians have dedicated shipping containers to other uses besides exports, homes, and construction offices. These include container farms, restaurants, bars, and storage.

  • Shipping Container Hydroponic Farms

    Shipping containers in Kentucky also serve as hydroponic farms that can grow greens year-round. 


    For instance, Frederick Douglas High School in Lexington, Ky, has a container farm that teaches Kentucky teens about agriculture. Likewise, Madison Central High School students in Richmond, Ky., grow produce on campus in a shipping container. AppHarvest, an AgTech company in Kentucky, sponsored both projects. It plans to build 12 indoor farms in Appalachia by 2024. One container grows 13,000 plants. 


    Bullitt County’s Shepherdsville, Ky., also had a vertical shipping container farm. However, the tech-based farm company that owned the facility, Square Roots, abruptly closed this and three other out-of-state container farms in July 2023.


    Louisville veterans grow lettuce, herbs, and leafy greens in another shipping container farm near Spring Street in the Irish Hill Neighborhood. The container is only 40 feet long. But it grows up to three acres of vertical crops.

  • Shipping Container Restaurants and Bars

    In Ashland, Ky, a family built its restaurant, Cargo House Pizza, out of two shipping containers.


    Similarly, plans are underway for a volleyball bar made of shipping containers. Two volleyball courts will grace either side of the Sandbar, a shipping container bar on Louisville’s East End.

  • Shipping Container Storage for Businesses and Individuals

    Many Louisville-area businesses and individuals use shipping containers for storage. Climate-controlled shipping containers in Kentucky store records, office equipment, and other items that no longer fit in crowded offices. These containers also stow documents and gear when offices are eliminated or downsized.


    Furthermore, shipping containers become business warehouses, especially during peak production times. They hold both raw and finished goods. Some distillers are even considering aging Kentucky bourbon in barrels in shipping containers.


    Other businesses buy shipping containers to rent the space to companies or individuals. Individuals with land buy shipping containers to keep on their property as extensions of their garages or sheds.

Container Management, Inc. Can Help

Need help with your storage or other container projects? We have the answers, experience, and pricing you need.

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