Description
A 20ft standard container in Cor-Ten steel, finished in a grey marine-grade coating, with double cargo doors, a factory-fitted lock box and weather-resistant seals throughout. It is sold as a general-purpose unit — storage, transport or a starting point for conversion — and the grey finish is the reason most buyers pick it over an equivalent box in shipping-line livery.
Dimensions
- External: 6.06 × 2.44 × 2.59 m (19 ft 11 in × 8 ft 0 in × 8 ft 6 in)
- Internal: 5.90 × 2.35 × 2.39 m (19 ft 4 in × 7 ft 9 in × 7 ft 10 in)
- Door opening: 2.34 × 2.28 m (7 ft 8 in × 7 ft 6 in)
- Floor area: roughly 13.9 m² (149 sq ft)
Specification
- Heavy-duty Cor-Ten steel construction
- Wind and watertight with weather-resistant seals
- Double cargo doors with locking bars
- Factory-fitted lock box
- Grey marine-grade paint finish
- Suitable for storage, transport or modification projects
Why the grey finish is a practical choice, not a cosmetic one
Colour is rarely just cosmetic on a container. The appeal of grey is that it reads as a considered choice rather than an industrial leftover, and that is what tends to get a unit waved through in customer-facing yards, car parks and plots next to housing — the objection a planner or a neighbour raises is almost never about the container being there, it is about what it looks like. Grey also weathers evenly, where strong colours fade in patches, and as a starting point for a later respray or branding it beats a shipping line’s original livery outright: one topcoat covers it.
Why converters start with a shell like this
- Sound, straight panels. An opening for a door, window or vent goes in faster through undamaged wall than it does around patched repairs, and the finish is tidier.
- Intact seals and door gear. Weather protection still matters once a unit is converted, so hinges, cams and gaskets that already seat correctly save a job later.
- Clean interior. Nothing to strip out or deodorise before the lining and insulation go in.
- Neutral base coat. A single topcoat takes it to a finished colour.
Typical uses
- Industrial and construction site storage
- Workshop and retail conversions
- Plant, equipment and stock storage
- Domestic and export shipping
Delivery, siting and cover
Delivery is free UK-wide, including Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey, and the price on this page is the total payable — no VAT is added at checkout. A 20ft container is delivered by tilt-bed and slides off under gravity, so you need firm, level ground and roughly 20 metres of straight approach behind the drop point, plus door-swing clearance at the door end. Ground that settles unevenly will rack the shell and stop the doors closing, which is the single most common avoidable problem with a sited container. Where a tilt-bed cannot reach the pitch and a crane offload is required, that is agreed in writing before delivery.
The unit is covered for 12 months against structural defects and water ingress. Separately, you have 14 days to change your mind under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, and a 30-day right to reject the goods if they turn out to be faulty under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
Compare similar 20ft units
Prefer a different factory colour? The 20ft one-trip container in RAL 1015 is the alternative, and there is a second grey option in the new-build 20ft grey shipping container. Where grade rather than colour decides it, most buyers also price up the Grade A standard 20ft container. Sizing, siting and access are walked through in our buyers guide, and everything we hold in this size sits under shipping containers.
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