Where can I buy a shipping container in Columbia, MS?
Longleaf has used and one-trip 20ft and 40ft shipping containers for sale in Columbia, delivered by tilt-bed truck to your lot in 39429 or anywhere in Marion County. Enter your ZIP on our containers page and the delivered price shows with the haul already included, so there is no separate trucking quote to chase.
Shipping containers for sale in Columbia: what you can buy
Shipping containers for sale in Columbia 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 Marion County just call it a conex box. Outside town the county is pasture and pine, and most buyers are on acreage: a feed room on a cattle place, an equipment box behind the barn, 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. Out in a pasture or behind a shop 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 will become a workshop; see the 20ft one-trip. One-trip vs used explains what each grade actually promises.
If the box is for 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 Columbia
Containers for Marion County come off depots in New Orleans and Mobile, and Columbia is one of the longer runs in the Pine Belt. The haul 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 39429 on the containers page and the price updates from the daily supplier feed; the Columbia 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 Columbia
Stay out of the Pearl River bottom. The February 2020 crest was forecast to reach about 75 Columbia addresses — Dean Griner Drive and Washington Street by the water park, Jones Lane and Horseshoe Bend Drive, Old Foxworth Road and South Frontage Road near the US-98 bridge. A container in those spots sits in water when the river comes up. Set it on higher ground, 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 — pine limbs over a long gravel drive are the usual problem in the county. A pasture that looks firm can stay soft for days after a heavy rain, and a truck that sinks cannot set the box; a failed drop is billable. See delivery access.
Make one call. Rules for a container kept on a residential lot differ town to town, and neither the city nor Marion County publishes its zoning text online. Inside city limits, call Columbia City Hall and ask who signs off on a permanent shipping container on your lot; outside them, call the Marion County Board of Supervisors and ask what your parcel needs. The Columbia page has the City Hall number, and storage container permits covers what to ask. Then plan a lock box and vents from the accessories page. Buying closer to the Hub City? See shipping containers for sale in Hattiesburg, or the guide for Collins. 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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