This is our home region. BluePort Container’s registered office is at Long Bennington, on the Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire border just off the A1. The office is not a container depot, but if you are local to us this is the region where an enquiry is easiest to talk through, and viewings elsewhere are arranged by appointment.

Free delivery to the East Midlands

Delivery is free to the East Midlands on every container we sell, and the price you see is the price you pay — nothing is added at checkout. Offload by HIAB or crane is agreed in writing before delivery, so you know how the container is coming off the lorry before it leaves us. This page is one of our UK delivery areas.

Ports serving the East Midlands

Immingham
Grimsby
Boston
Felixstowe (via A14)

The East Midlands has no deep-sea container terminal of its own, but it sits between two of the best-connected corridors in the country: the Humber ports to the north east and the A14 to Felixstowe running south east. Both are routinely used for boxes destined for this region.

Roads and routes into the East Midlands

The A1 runs straight past Long Bennington, and the M1, A46, A52, A38 and A5 cover the rest of the region. The A17 and A16 serve the Lincolnshire fens and coast, and the A14 heads south east towards Felixstowe. The Peak District is the only part of the region where the road network genuinely constrains what can be delivered.

Areas we cover

Nottinghamshire and Nottingham
Lincolnshire and Lincoln
Derbyshire and Derby
Leicestershire and Leicester
Northamptonshire
Rutland
Newark and Grantham
Chesterfield
Mansfield

Site access

Much of Lincolnshire and the Trent valley is flat, open and easy for artic access. The Peak District fringe in Derbyshire is the exception, where narrow lanes and gradients need checking first.

A loaded 40ft container arrives on an articulated lorry. In the UK an artic runs to a maximum of 44 tonnes gross and is around 16.5 metres long, so it needs firm, reasonably level ground, room to turn, and space clear of overhead cables and branches for the offload. A 10ft or 20ft unit is considerably more forgiving. Our guide to delivery access, craning and ground preparation sets out what to check. If you are unsure whether your site works, tell us about the approach and we will tell you honestly before you order.

Planning permission in the East Midlands

Planning control in England sits with your local planning authority. The Peak District National Park is its own planning authority and applies noticeably tighter tests, and the Lincolnshire Wolds is a National Landscape (formerly an AONB). Elsewhere the region is largely agricultural and industrial, where a container on hardstanding behind an existing building is usually the least contentious siting. Our guide to planning permission for a shipping container explains the principles so you can ask the right question. It is general information, not planning advice — your local planning authority has the final word.

Delivery timing to the East Midlands

This is the region we are physically closest to, but that does not shorten a delivery on its own — stock is held at depots around the country and the container comes from wherever the right unit is, not from Long Bennington. What being local does change is how easily an enquiry gets talked through properly.

Nearby delivery areas

Or see every region on the container delivery areas page.

Buying a container in the East Midlands

You can browse shipping containers, storage containers, high cube containers, refrigerated containers, site cabins and modified containers, or see the full container range. Every container is sold outright — we do not hire.

Read the condition guide to understand the difference between new, one-trip and used grades, the buyer’s guide for choosing between sizes and specifications, or the delivery information page for how offload and access are handled. If you would rather talk it through, request a quote and tell us where the container is going.

Shipping Containers in the East Midlands