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New & Used Shipping Containers for Sale in Columbus, Ohio

If you’re a broker, individual, farmer, manufacturer, or other business looking for containers in the Columbus, Ohio, 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. 

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Shipping Containers Delivery

Our Containers Are Available for Pickup or Delivery Within a 200- Mile Radius

You can pick up your containers or have us deliver them to you.


Pick Up Our Containers at the Columbus, Ohio, Depot Station

Our Depot site is in Columbus in the 43207 zip code area.

We provide a container release number when you purchase your shipping container for pickup. This number allows you or your freight forwarder access to your purchased container(s) during the specified timeframe at the Columbus Depot.


Where We Deliver Shipping Containers Within 200 Miles From Columbus, Ohio

We deliver containers to the following Columbus areas:

  • City of Columbus
  • Columbus Suburbs
  • Halfway to Cleveland, Ohio
  • Halfway to Cincinnati, Ohio
  • East to Pennsylvania
  • West to Indiana-Ohio border

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

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


Is the Columbus Depot the Optimal Depot for Your Shipping Containers?

You may be closer to our Cleveland, Ohio, location, our Indianapolis, Indiana, location, or our Cincinnati, Ohio, location.

Not sure if you’re within our Columbus, Ohio, shipping service area? Just ask! 


Ask if we deliver to your area.

New and Used Containers We Sell in Columbus, Ohio

We sell all sizes of new and used steel shipping containers in Columbus. Moreover, Columbusites and their nearby neighbors commonly buy:



  • 20-foot containers for storage
  • 20-foot containers for a variety of customizations
  • 40-foot containers (8 feet, 6 inches high)
  • 40-foot High-Cube containers (9 feet, 6 inches high)
  • Other shipping container sizes
Blue Shipping Containers in Columbus, Ohio

Ohio Industries and Manufacturers Buy Containers for Storage

More than 12,000 manufacturers call the Buckeye state home. Similar to other Ohio industries, these manufacturers need places to store their goods and raw materials. For many, that means buying shipping containers for storage—especially when product demand is high.

Ohio Exporters Can Save Time and Money 

Additionally, those who export goods buy cargo-worthy containers. Shipper-owned containers can be less costly overall than containers supplied by the shipping lines.


Furthermore, we work with surveyors who can appropriately certify containers for ocean shipping.


By owning your containers, your goods can be stored, sealed, and shipped overseas. Moreover, goods in sealed containers can be transported from their origin to their destination.


This saves money and avoids the cost of unloading and reloading goods at the destination port. Steamships require you to keep their containers at the port in some countries when embargoes are in place.


We can help you make the export process work.

Pile of Containers

Individual Storage

People own a lot of stuff. For example, the average American home has 300,000 items. For many, storing items in a storage unit is an excellent alternative to decluttering.


It’s estimated that we have enough self-storage units to average one storage unit for every 14 Americans. 


Others are holding onto items for their young adult children, those living overseas temporarily, or those who are between homes for one reason or another. 

Shipping containers also offer an opportunity to store hard-to-part-from treasures, such as great-grandfather’s rocker and grandma’s good dishes and porcelain teacup collection.

  • Storage Container Businesses

    Self-storage is increasingly a big business in Ohio and throughout the United States. Many of those who buy shipping containers from us have their storage businesses. They purchase the containers and then rent them to others.

  • Individual Purchases

    Individuals also call us to buy containers for their own storage use, especially those with the land to place the shipping container.

Farmers Store Seeds, Grains, and More in Shipping Containers

Approximately 44 percent of Ohio is farmland, with soybeans and corn topping the list of crops. It’s no surprise, then, that savvy Ohioan farmers have put shipping containers to use for them.

  • Farm Implement Storage

    For example, Buckeye farmers may store farm equipment, implements, or tractors in new and used shipping containers. This extends and expands the size and locations of their barns and reduces their overhead costs.

  • Seed and Grain Storage

    Additionally, Ohio farmers have converted shipping containers into seed and grain siloes. Modified with wooden bulkheads, these storage containers reduce spillage compared to traditional grain siloes. As a result, fewer seeds scatter to the ground. This deters rodents—especially mice and rats. 

More Shipping Containers for Storage in Columbus and Nearby Areas

Besides farm storage, explore some creative ways Buckeyes have repurposed steel shipping containers.

  • Just-in-Time Seasonal Storage

    Retail stores use shipping containers to extend their storage for holiday shopping and seasonal goods.

  • Business Storage

    Besides warehousing retail goods, storing farm equipment, and extending workspaces, companies use climate-controlled shipping containers to store paperwork, office equipment, and other items that no longer fit in office spaces.

Container Housing in and Around Columbus, Ohio

Container homes are popular in and around Columbus. 

  • Multifamily Homes

    “Cargominium” apartments are multifamily shipping container apartments in Columbus.

  • Prefab Shipping Container Homes in Ohio

    Some of these prefab homes include:

  • Tiny House Rentals in Ohio

    Many “tiny houses” are available for rent (for the ultimate decluttering experience).

    Hocking Hills is home to the following container home rentals.

    • “Hemlock” on Wheels 
    • “The Lily Pad” 
    • “Luna Cottage” 
    • “Nova Cottage” 

    Similarly, in Millersburg, you can rent the following:

    • “The Lux” 
    • “The Scandi” 

    For those who want to live the high life (quite literally), you can find Ohio treehouses for rent:

    • “Ela” in the Forest, Millersburg
    • Hocking Hills Treehouse, South Bloomingville 
    • Luxury Treehouse Getaway in Berlin, Ohio
    • Off-Grid Treehouse in Frazeyburg 
    • Romantic Treehouse Getaway,  South Bloomingville

    Logan, Ohio, offers a few container homes for rent:

    • The Gladiola on Wheels
    • Shipping Container Tiny House with a Rooftop Deck 

    Other container rentals include

    • Industrial Container in Dover
    • “Klein House” in Navarre
    • “Lupulin” Tiny Cabin in Carpenter
    • The Tiny at Corner Tree in Centerburg
    • Winery Romantic Cabin in Tarlton

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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