Shipping Containers For Sale in Indianapolis: New & Used in Indianapolis, IN
If you’re searching for shipping containers for sale in Indianapolis, Container Management, Inc. is your trusted local source. We serve a wide range of customers—including businesses, individuals, farmers, and brokers—throughout the Indianapolis area. Whether you need a container for storage, shipping, farming, or a creative project, we offer a large inventory of new and used steel shipping containers in multiple sizes. Our services include ground-level delivery, depot pick-up, and expert modifications to fit your unique needs.
Buying locally in Indianapolis means faster delivery, lower transportation costs, and the assurance of working with a reputable, family-owned business that understands the needs of the community. With over 30 years of experience, Container Management, Inc. is committed to providing competitive pricing, personalized service, and reliable support for every customer.
Quick Summary: Shipping Containers in Indianapolis
- Available Sizes: Containers are available in lengths of 20 and 40 feet. Specialty lengths may also be available upon request.
- Conditions: Used shipping container conditions include Wind and Watertight, and Cargo-Worthy. New shipping containers are often referred to as "one-trip" containers.
- Typical Pricing: Used 20-foot containers typically range from $1,400 to $1,800. The average price for new one-trip 40-foot containers can exceed $4,000.
- Delivery Options: Container Management, Inc. offers ground-level tilt-bed deliveries for shipping containers. Delivery typically takes 4 to 7 business days after purchase. Containers can be delivered within a 200-mile radius. Note: We also offer flatbed truck deliveries for destinations beyond the 200-mile range.
- Depot Pick-Up: You can pick up your container at the Indianapolis depot after purchase.
- Local Zoning: Check local zoning laws before placing a container on your property.
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LEARN MORETypes of Shipping Containers for Sale – Indianapolis
Container Management, Inc. is proud to offer new and used shipping containers for sale near Indianapolis. We offer shipping containers in Indianapolis in various sizes, including 20 and 40 feet, to help you find the right fit for your needs. High Cube containers are 9.5 feet tall compared to the standard 8.5 feet. 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.
How to Buy A Shipping Container in Indianapolis
Our process is personalized to best meet your individual container needs.
Buying shipping containers is a seamless process with our efficient, customized system backed by our nationwide shipping container sales and services.
At Container Management, Inc., we ensure that you get the container size and grade that best meets your specific needs.
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
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 prices in wholesale on the market by quoting according to current inventory availability.
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 (water tight) and weather resistant 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, we will coordinate the logistics of your shipping container delivery or depot pick-up.
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, and consider the different
shipping container delivery options including flatbed and tilt-bed trucks.
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
IIf 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). For international shipments, it also helps to understand shipping container CSC plates, markings, and export surveys.
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.
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 Indianapolis Depot Station
Our Depot site is in Indianapolis, IN, 46225, and our headquarters is in Fishers, Indiana, home to our family-owned Container Management, Inc. operation.
When you purchase your shipping container, we provide a container release number. This number allows you or your freight forwarder access to your purchased container(s) during the specified timeframe at the secure intermodal container facility.
Where We Deliver Indianapolis Shipping Containers
We deliver containers within a 200-mile radius of Indianapolis. This covers approximately all areas within:
- Indianapolis and the Greater Indianapolis Metropolitan Area
- Areas to the North and Northwest of Indianapolis (until our Chicago, Illinois service area is closer)
- Fort Wayne, Indiana to the Northeast
- Oxford, Ohio and Greenville, Ohio to the East (until our Columbus, Ohio service area is closer)
- Lawrenceburg, Indiana and areas to the Southeast (until our Cincinnati, Ohio service area is closer)
- Henryville, Indiana and Paoli, Indiana to the South (until our Louisville, Kentucky area is closer)
- Sullivan, Indiana and Linton, Indiana to the Southwest
- Decatur, IL and Champaign, IL to the West
Indianapolis consists of a major freight transportation network built around four interstates: Interstate 65, Interstate 69, Interstate 70, and Interstate 74.
The city also has two auxiliary interstate highways: Interstate 465, the metro loop, and Interstate 865, a connector.
These interstate highways, auxiliary interstate highways, and secondary routes support local freight movement.
Not sure if you’re within our Indianapolis shipping service area? Just ask!
For deliveries beyond 200 miles, we use a flat-bed truck broker that requires customers to lift off containers at the time of arrival. Call us for more information.
Additionally, your delivery location may be closer to one of our other service areas, such as Chicago, IL for Chicago shipping container sales; Cincinnati for Cincinnati shipping containers; Columbus, Ohio for Columbus shipping containers; Detroit, Michigan; or Louisville, Kentucky.
Ask If We Can Deliver To Your Area
Now that you know how to get your container, let’s look at pricing and what makes us the trusted choice in Indianapolis, keeping in mind broader shipping container cost factors by size and condition.
Discover Our Indianapolis Area Pricing
As a wholesaler, we have provided excellent customer service to container brokers, businesses, farmers, individuals, and many others for more than 30 years.
As one of the most reputable, long-standing, and largest container wholesalers, we typically offer lower prices than our competitors.
Continue reading to see what types of containers are most popular in Indianapolis and how you can customize your order.
New and Used Containers We Sell in Indianapolis
We sell all sizes of new and used steel shipping containers in the Indianapolis market in various sizes, including 20- and 40-foot lengths. Moreover, our Indianapolis customers commonly buy:
- 20-foot containers for storage
- 20-foot containers for a variety of customizations
- 40-foot standard containers (8.5 feet high)
- 40-foot High-Cube containers (9.5 feet high)
- Other shipping container sizes
Learn about Shipping Container Grades.
Modifications
We can also modify and customize your container in nearby Chicago by adding doors, floors, windows, skylights, electrical, HVAC, and more.
Looking for inspiration? See how Indiana farmers and businesses use containers in the next section.
Farmers Store Seeds, Grains, and More in Shipping Containers
Nearly two-thirds of Indiana is farmland. It’s no surprise, then, that savvy Indiana farmers have put shipping containers to use for them.
Farm Implement Storage
For example, 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, farmers have converted shipping containers into seed and grain siloes, similar to innovative agricultural projects described in our Cleveland shipping container applications. 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.
Ready to see even more creative uses? The next section explores how containers are repurposed across Indianapolis.
Creative Uses of Containers in Indianapolis and Nearby Areas
Besides farm storage, explore some creative ways that Indianans have repurposed steel shipping containers, which reflect trends across our broader shipping container sales locations.
Just-in-Time Christmas and Seasonal Storage
Big box stores often need additional warehouse space, especially during holidays and seasonal sales. To that end, we sell shipping containers to large retailers.
This enables them to restock their merchandise—not by waiting for a delivery to arrive—but simply by accessing the storage container in the parking lot behind or beside their store.
Likewise, an overflow of goods, such as patio tables, chairs, sun umbrellas, wading pools, and other spring or summer merchandise, can extend retail space in the store’s parking lot.
Outdoor Workspaces
Some Container Management, Inc. customers in Indiana and elsewhere buy three 40-foot containers. Placed in a U-shape and topped with a roof, this creates a workplace away from the weather elements.
Company and Personal 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.
Likewise, Americans have a lot of extra “stuff.” It’s estimated that we have enough self-storage units to average one storage unit for every 14 Americans. Self-storage is increasingly a big business in Indiana and throughout the United States.
Container Housing in the Indianapolis Area
Attainable housing in Fishers, Indiana. A luxurious boutique hotel in Indy’s Haughville neighborhood on the West Side. Environmentally friendly townhomes that list for $600,000 to $700,000 in the Kennedy-King neighborhood on the Northside. These are just a few diverse and innovative ways Indiana contractors transform steel shipping containers into living spaces.
Vertical Farms in Urban Indianapolis
Leafy greens are grown year-round on an urban farm on the Eastside of Indianapolis on East 10th Street. Farmer DeMario Vitalis grows up to 13,000 plants at one time in vertical towers—inside shipping containers. He controls the humidity, light, pH, nutrients, and temperature.
Restaurants, Pools, Event Spaces & More
Shipping containers are used for a variety of innovative entertainment purposes:
Restaurants and Brewpubs in Broad Ripple, on the North Side of Indy at Monon Yard.
Pools manufactured in Anderson, Indiana, Northeast of Indianapolis.
In 2020, a concert venue in Fountain Square in downtown Indianapolis moved outdoors. The owner turned shipping containers into a stage and an open-air concert venue.
The Cradle at Monon 30
An event space called The Cradle on the North Side of Indianapolis transformed an abandoned lumber yard into a weekend concert venue, free entrance, and the availability of food and drink purchases. The food vendors prepare and sell food out of repurposed shipping containers.
Artisan Food Market Places
AMP, an Artisan Food Market Place in the 16 Tech Innovation District of Indianapolis, bordered by White River, Fall Creek, and Indiana Avenue. It houses a barber shop, restaurants, coffee shop, deli, and numerous restaurants. AMP is built from customized shipping containers.
Bathrooms
Rustic weddings, concertgoers, and the Office of Public Safety (OPHS) have transformed shipping containers into portable public restrooms. The restrooms include wheelchair accessibility, flush toilets, and handwashing stations. In downtown Indy, the restrooms are outside the old city hall building near Alabama Street and E. New York Street.
Ready to order? See where we deliver containers in and around Indianapolis next.
We Deliver Shipping Containers Within a 200 Mile Radius of Indianapolis, IN
Container Management, Inc. can deliver your shipping container anywhere within a 200 mile radius of Indianapolis.
This means we can deliver your shipping container to other prime locations near Indianapolis, including:
- Columbus, IN
- Carmel, IN
- Bloomington, IN
- Terre Haute, IN
- Evansville, IN
- Fort Wayne, IN
- South Bend, IN
- Valparaiso, IN
- Champaign, IL
- Springfield, IL
- Louisville, KY
- Elizabethtown, KY
- Owensboro, KY
- Lexington, KY
- Richmond, KY
- Hamilton, OH
- Cincinnati, OH
- Columbus, OH and nearby Minneapolis shipping container services
Contact us today to find out if our Indianapolis location is the best option for delivering your shipping container.
Frequently Asked Questions About Shipping Containers for Sale in Indianapolis
How Much Does a Shipping Container Cost in Indianapolis?
Supply and Demand
Pricing fluctuates based on current supply levels at the depots that service our Indiana customers. When supply is high, prices often drop; when supply is tight, costs rise.
Location Logistics
Your specific location plays a major role in the final delivered price. While you might be searching for "shipping containers Indianapolis," the actual container might come from a depot in:
- Indianapolis, IN
- Chicago, IL
- Cincinnati, OH
- Louisville, KY
- Detroit, MI
- Columbus, OH
We always source from the location that offers the most cost-effective solution for your delivery address.
Condition and Modifications
- The grade of the container significantly impacts the price.
- A new "one-trip" container costs more than a used "wind and watertight" unit.
- If you require modifications—such as specific door configurations or height variations (like High Cube containers)—this will affect your total investment.
At Container Management, Inc., we guide you through these options to ensure you make the best purchase decision based on your specific use case and budget.
Understanding Container Conditions: New vs. Used
Shipping container conditions include Wind and Watertight, cargo-worthy, and new "one-trip" status.
- One-Trip: New containers are often referred to as "one-trip" containers. These are manufactured overseas, loaded with cargo once, and shipped to the US. They are the highest quality available on the secondary market and look nearly new, with very few dents or scratches.
- Cargo Worthy (CW): This refers to a used container that is structurally sound and can be certified by a licensed surveyor for ocean shipment. They may have rust and dents, but their structural integrity is verified.
- Wind and Watertight (WWT): Used shipping containers include options that are Wind and Water Tight. These are used containers guaranteed to keep wind and water out. They are perfect for static storage but may not meet the strict criteria for international shipping without repair.
We provide detailed descriptions of these grades to ensure you know exactly what to expect upon delivery.
Can I Inspect the Container Before Buying?
Many of our Indianapolis customers ask if they can visit the depot to pick out their specific unit.
We store our inventory in large, secure intermodal depots connected to broader freight and rail networks, where major steamship lines also maintain their equipment. Due to strict insurance regulations and safety liability issues, these facilities restrict access to employees only. It is not a retail lot where customers can browse inventory.
However, we bridge this gap by offering guarantees on the quality of the unit you receive, ensuring it matches the grade you purchased.
Do You Offer a Warranty Against Leaks?
Yes. We stand behind the quality of our products. All containers we sell—whether new or used—are guaranteed to be wind and watertight at the time of delivery. If a unit arrives with a leak or structural issue that compromises its watertight integrity, we address it. This guarantee provides peace of mind that your goods will remain safe and dry.
How Does Delivery Work in Indianapolis?
We provide a licensed, professional container delivery service for clients in Indianapolis, throughout Indiana, and in surrounding areas.
Because shipping containers are large and heavy, delivery requires specific planning. We help you navigate:
- Truck Types: We use tilt-bed trucks that slide the container off gently at your site.
- Clearance: We advise on how much height and width clearance is needed for the truck to maneuver.
- Site Prep: We guide you on how to prepare the ground (gravel, concrete, or sturdy grass) to ensure the container sits level and doesn't sink.
From the moment you request a quote to the final drop-off, we manage the logistics so you don't have to worry about transport.
Do I Need a Permit to Place a Container on My Property?
Zoning laws vary significantly between the City of Indianapolis, Marion County, and other local municipalities.
- Temporary vs. Permanent: Some areas allow containers for temporary use (like during construction) without a permit, while permanent placement may require one.
- Zoning Restrictions: Residential areas often have stricter rules than industrial or agricultural zones.
We strongly recommend checking with your local planning or zoning department before purchase. Check local zoning laws before placing a container on your property. This is a critical local step that prevents potential fines or the need to move the container later.
How Can I Avoid Online Container Scams?
Unfortunately, online fraud involving shipping containers is on the rise. Scammers often post fake listings with prices that seem "too good to be true."
Secure Payment Methods
One of the best ways to protect yourself is to use a secured credit card for your transaction. Credit card companies offer fraud protection that wire transfers and cash apps do not.
At Container Management, Inc., we prioritize your security. We do not pass on credit card processing fees to our customers, meaning you pay no extra charges for the safety of a credit card transaction.
Why Choose Container Management, Inc. in Indiana
Trust is built on consistency and transparency. Here is why customers in Indianapolis and beyond choose us for their container needs.
Indianapolis businesses in pharma, manufacturing, construction, and distribution rely on strong container logistics, including major employers like Eli Lilly.
Indiana's freight economy also supports exports tied to vehicles and vehicle parts.
Family-Owned and Experienced
We are a multi-generational, family-run business with decades of experience in the industry. We aren't a faceless broker; we are experts in container logistics and fabrication.
Proven Track Record
We have hundreds of 5-star reviews from customers in the Midwest and nationally who praise our professionalism, fair pricing, and delivery reliability. Our reputation is built on delivering what we promise.
BBB Accreditation and Ethics
We strictly adhere to the Better Business Bureau (BBB) Standards for Trust:
- Build Trust: We establish and maintain a positive track record in the marketplace.
- Advertise Honestly: We adhere to established standards of advertising and selling.
- Tell the Truth: We honestly represent our products and services.
- Be Transparent: We openly identify the nature of our business and the details of our products.
- Honor Promises: We abide by all written agreements and verbal representations.
- Be Responsive: We address marketplace disputes quickly, professionally, and in good faith.
- Safeguard Privacy: We protect data collected against mishandling and fraud.
- Embody Integrity: We approach all business dealings, marketplace transactions, and commitments with integrity.
Ready To Find The Perfect Container For Your Project?
Contact Container Management, Inc. today for expert guidance, competitive pricing, and reliable delivery in Indianapolis, Indiana. Whether you need new or used shipping containers, modifications, or export-certified units, we’re here to help you every step of the way. Get your free quote now and experience the trusted service that sets us apart. Don’t wait—secure your ideal shipping container today!
