An ex-fleet 40ft container, retired from deep-sea service and surveyed against the cargo-worthy standard before sale. It reaches you sound in structure, wind and watertight and still plated, which keeps three options open: static storage, another leg at sea or on the road, or a base shell for conversion.
Dimensions
- External: 12.19 × 2.44 × 2.59 m (40 ft 0 in × 8 ft 0 in × 8 ft 6 in)
- Internal: 12.00 × 2.35 × 2.39 m (39 ft 4 in × 7 ft 9 in × 7 ft 10 in)
- Door opening: 2.34 m wide × 2.28 m high (7 ft 8 in × 7 ft 6 in)
- Weight: 3,420 kg
- Floor: 28 mm marine plywood
Build and fittings
- Surveyed to cargo-worthy standard prior to sale
- CSC plated, so the box may still be shipped internationally
- Genuine ex-shipping-line stock
- Sound structure, handed over wind and watertight
- Cor-Ten weathering steel shell
- Door gear: a pair of locking bars to each leaf
- Forklift pockets: two to a side
- Flooring: 28 mm marine ply laid over steel cross members
- Vented
- Modification and conversion work quoted separately, at extra cost
- Any cutting into the shell cancels the CSC plate
What the grade actually buys you
Ask for cargo-worthy where the unit may go back onto a chassis, a wagon or a ship, or where you simply want the strongest standard the second-hand market offers. Rank it above a plain wind and watertight box and one notch below one-trip stock. The premium pays for a survey and the plate that follows — permission to move loaded, in effect.
The other side of it: if the plan is a corner of a compound and no further journeys, a standard used 40ft covers that for less, and the survey has bought you a permission you will never exercise.
Using it as a conversion base
Twelve metres of clear internal length is why fabricators reach for a 40ft shell first. Lining and insulation, cut-ins for doors and windows, internal partitions or a respray into a RAL colour of your choosing are all available at additional cost.
One catch before you specify any of that. The moment a torch goes through the steel the CSC plate is void for good, and the cargo-worthy status goes with it. Where the brief involves cutting, start from a standard used shell and keep graded stock for boxes that will genuinely travel.
Delivery, siting and cover
Delivery is free UK-wide, taking in Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey, and the price shown is the total payable with no VAT added at checkout. Delivery is by tilt-bed or roll-off lorry and needs firm, level ground with clear overhead access and a straight approach of roughly 25 m. If the container is intended for onward shipping, place it where a lorry can collect it loaded rather than in a position it can only be craned out of. HIAB or crane offload is agreed in writing before delivery.
As cargo-worthy stock it is covered for three months from delivery: wind and watertight, structurally sound and consistent with the cargo-worthy grade as set out in our condition guide, including that the doors operate and seal. Cosmetic condition is excluded. Your statutory rights are separate and additional — 14 days to change your mind under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, and a 30-day right to reject the goods if they are faulty.
Related 40ft stock
Every grade is defined in the container condition guide, the quickest way to check you are not over-buying. Want the same footprint as a plain dry van? Take the 40ft used cargo-worthy dry van. Where a forklift must run right through rather than turn inside, the double-ended 40ft unit saves a lot of shuffling. The rest sits under shipping containers, and site requirements are in our delivery information.
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