Where can I buy a shipping container in Ellisville, MS?

Shipping containers for sale in Ellisville: what you can buy

Shipping containers for sale in Ellisville are the same boxes we deliver across the Pine Belt — a 20ft or a 40ft, standard height or high cube, used or one-trip. Most people in Jones County just call it a conex box. Ellisville is the college town on I-59 south of Laurel, with a compact older center around the courthouse and timber, pasture and gravel roads in every direction. The buyers are mostly out on that acreage: a feed room on a cattle place, an equipment box behind the shop, a lockable spot at the deer camp, or a storage building behind the house that stays.

Used wind and watertight is the plain-storage grade: no holes, doors that seal, dents and surface rust included. Behind a barn or at the back of a few acres it is the right buy — see the 20ft used WWT or the 40ft high cube used. One-trip is near-new and worth it when the box sits in sight of the road or a neighbor in town, or will become a workshop; see the 20ft one-trip. Cargo worthy vs WWT explains what each used grade actually promises.

If the box is for a semester of dorm overflow or a few months on a site you do not control, a local rental yard is honestly the better answer. Buying makes sense when you will still want the container next year. The farm feed room and hunting camp box packages pair a container with vents, a lock and shelving brackets at one delivered price; the kits ship separately and you bolt them on yourself.

How a delivered container is priced to Ellisville

Ellisville boxes come off the depots in Mobile and New Orleans, both well over a hundred road miles away, so the haul is a real share of what you pay. It is priced on road miles from whichever depot holds the box you pick, which is why we show one delivered number for your ZIP instead of a box price now and a truck price later. Put 39437 on the containers page and the price updates from the daily supplier feed; the Ellisville page shows the same delivered prices with the depot distances.

Not included: a gravel pad or corner blocks, a permit if your lot needs one, and a failed drop. Your card is authorized, not charged, until we confirm the order and the delivery window with you, and delivery is typically within a week or two after that.

Before you buy a container in Ellisville

Ask about the flood zone. The City of Ellisville's building-permit packet includes a floodplain development permit, so City Hall will want to know what you are placing and whether the parcel sits in a flood zone — low ground along Tallahala Creek is the place to check. Whatever the answer, set the box on the high side of the lot, on gravel or blocks rather than bare dirt. Hurricane season storage covers siting a box in Gulf weather.

Measure the run. A tilt-bed needs about 110 feet of straight, firm, level ground for a 20ft and about 130 feet for a 40ft, plus 15 feet of clear sky on the way in and 22 feet where the box is set down. In town the side-yard gate and overhead lines are the usual problem; out in the county it is a gravel last mile with a soft shoulder, or a pasture that stays wet for days after a hard rain. A truck that sinks cannot set the box, and a failed drop is billable. See delivery access.

Make one call. Rules for a container kept on a residential lot differ town to town. Inside the city limits, ask Ellisville City Hall how a permanent shipping container is treated; outside them, unincorporated Jones County has no building codes, but the state-required construction permit runs through the county. The Ellisville page has both numbers, and storage container permits covers what to ask. Then plan a lock box and vents from the accessories page. Shopping nearby? See conex boxes for sale in Laurel or shipping containers for sale in Hattiesburg. See containers for sale — delivered price by ZIP

Buying a container?

Longleaf sells used and one-trip 20ft and 40ft shipping containers, delivered by tilt-bed across the Pine Belt. Enter your ZIP for the delivered price — it comes straight from the supplier feed and already includes the haul. Locks, vents, shelving and lights are on the accessories page. We sell; we do not rent.

• 20ft Standard Cargo Worthy (used) — from $2,885 delivered
• 20ft Standard One Trip (new) — from $3,635 delivered
• 20ft Standard Wind & Watertight (used) — from $2,470 delivered
• 40ft High Cube Cargo Worthy (used) — from $3,525 delivered
• 40ft High Cube One Trip (new) — from $4,925 delivered
• 40ft High Cube Wind & Watertight (used) — from $3,210 delivered
• 40ft Standard Cargo Worthy (used) — from $3,525 delivered
• 40ft Standard One Trip (new) — from $6,355 delivered
• 40ft Standard Wind & Watertight (used) — from $3,160 delivered

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Keep reading

• Where can I buy a shipping container near Seminary, MS? — Shipping containers for sale in Seminary, MS: used and one-trip 20ft and 40ft boxes delivered to 39479 and Covington County, and the flood check to make first.
• What is the difference between a cargo worthy and wind and watertight container? — Cargo worthy vs WWT container: what the survey adds over wind and watertight, which used grade a Pine Belt buyer needs, and when cargo worthy is worth it.
• Does a shipping container need a moisture trap in south Mississippi? — Container moisture trap guide for south Mississippi buyers: why traps alone cannot dry a steel box, where vents come first, and how to place and check them.
• Where can I buy a shipping container in Lucedale, MS? — Shipping containers for sale in Lucedale, MS: used and one-trip 20ft and 40ft boxes delivered across George County, priced by ZIP, and what to check first.
• Where can I buy a shipping container in Sumrall, MS? — Shipping containers for sale in Sumrall, MS: used and one-trip 20ft and 40ft boxes delivered across west Lamar County, priced by ZIP, and what to check first.

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