Shipping Containers For Sale in New Orleans.
New and used containers delivered from our yard in South Carolina to the Crescent City. We run I-95 south to I-10 west and serve the entire New Orleans metro — from the French Quarter to the West Bank, Metairie to the Northshore, Chalmette to Kenner.
Nine Hours West, All the Way to the River.
Our yard in St. George, South Carolina is about 640 miles from New Orleans — roughly nine hours down I-95 through Savannah and Jacksonville, then west on I-10 across the Florida Panhandle, through Mobile, past the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and across the eastern marshes of Louisiana into the city that the Mississippi River built. New Orleans is the most unique city in the American South — maybe the most unique city in America, period — but underneath the music, the food, and three centuries of cultural layering sits a port city and industrial economy that has moved cargo since the Louisiana Purchase. The Port of New Orleans and the Port of South Louisiana together form one of the largest port complexes in the world by tonnage. The Mississippi River is the economic spine that everything else wraps around — the grain elevators, the petrochemical plants, the tank farms, the refineries, the rail yards, and the container terminals that connect the interior of the continent to global shipping lanes. When we deliver a container to New Orleans, we are dropping steel into a city that has been in the freight business longer than any other city in the country west of the Appalachians.
We deliver across the entire metro — Orleans Parish, Jefferson Parish, St. Bernard Parish, St. Tammany Parish, and Plaquemines Parish. The French Quarter, Garden District, Uptown, Mid-City, Gentilly, New Orleans East, Lakeview, Algiers, Gretna, Harvey, Marrero, Westwego, Kenner, Metairie, Chalmette, Arabi, Slidell, Mandeville, Covington, and the industrial corridors along the river. Most deliveries from our yard land within four to six business days. No brokers. No third-party depot in Mobile or Baton Rouge with a markup. Every container ships direct from our lot in St. George, inspected and road-ready before the driver loads it.
One company, one truck, one price. You deal with us from quote to placement.
Browse Our Containers →Where the River Meets the Refinery.
The stretch of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge is the most concentrated corridor of petrochemical and refining infrastructure in the United States. The plants, refineries, tank farms, and chemical manufacturing facilities lining both banks of the river form the industrial backbone of the Louisiana economy and employ tens of thousands of workers across the region. Every turnaround — the scheduled shutdown of a refinery or chemical plant for maintenance and inspection — generates enormous temporary demand for secure on-site storage. Contractors flood in, tools and equipment need staging, spare parts need protection from the subtropical humidity, and temporary structures go up on job sites that did not exist a month earlier and will not exist a month later. The turnaround cycle is perpetual — different facilities on different schedules, year-round, decade after decade.
The Port of New Orleans operates the Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal, handling containerized cargo from global trade routes. The New Orleans Public Belt Railroad connects the port to six Class I railroads, making it one of the most intermodal-connected ports in the country. The NASA Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans East — where the Space Launch System core stages are manufactured — represents billions in aerospace contracts and a workforce that requires specialized storage and staging for components too large for conventional warehousing. The Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse supports military operations and generates defense contractor demand across the West Bank and Plaquemines Parish.
Tulane University, Loyola University, the University of New Orleans, and the LSU Health Sciences Center anchor the educational and medical sectors. The tourism economy — 18 million visitors a year, the Superdome, the Convention Center, the French Quarter, Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest, and hundreds of restaurants and hotels — creates a permanent hospitality infrastructure that requires constant renovation, buildout, and storage. New Orleans generates container demand from the port, the petrochemical corridor, the military, aerospace, construction, and the largest tourism economy in the Gulf South simultaneously.
Katrina Changed Everything. The Water Still Rises.
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall east of New Orleans as a Category 3 storm and exposed the catastrophic failure of the federal levee system that was supposed to protect the city. The levees breached in more than fifty locations. Eighty percent of New Orleans flooded. The Lower Ninth Ward was destroyed. Lakeview was destroyed. Gentilly, New Orleans East, St. Bernard Parish, and Chalmette were destroyed. More than 1,800 people died across the Gulf Coast. The city lost half its population. Two decades later, the rebuilt levee system — the Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System — is one of the most advanced flood protection systems in the world, but it was built to a 100-year storm standard, and the city still sits in a bowl below sea level, surrounded by Lake Pontchartrain, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico.
In 2021, Hurricane Ida made landfall at Port Fourchon as a Category 4 storm — one of the strongest to ever strike Louisiana — and hammered the metro with catastrophic wind damage, power outages that lasted weeks, and flooding that overwhelmed drainage systems. The city went dark. No electricity, no running water in late-August Gulf Coast heat. The recovery took months, and the construction activity that followed is still ongoing in some parishes.
A shipping container is engineered to survive conditions that make a Gulf hurricane look moderate. Pacific typhoons, North Atlantic winter gales, months stacked eight units high on a cargo vessel taking green water over the bow — that is the baseline engineering. Corrugated Corten steel walls, welded watertight roof seams, and marine-grade door gaskets are standard construction. The structural integrity that keeps cargo dry crossing an ocean keeps your tools, equipment, inventory, and personal property secure when a tropical system pushes a surge into Lake Pontchartrain while dumping biblical rainfall on a city that is already below the water table.
Every container we sell is inspected before it leaves our yard — doors, seals, walls, roof, and floor. If you live in New Orleans and you watched what Ida did in 2021, you already know that the next storm is not a question of if. A shipping container is storm-ready before it leaves our lot.
Inspected and Ready for the Crescent City.
20ft Standard Used
Wind and watertight workhorse. Perfect for on-site storage, farms, and light shipping duty.
40ft Standard Used
Double the footprint for long-term bulk storage and commercial use. Sturdy and cost-effective.
40ft High Cube Used
Extra foot of ceiling height for oversized equipment, workshop buildouts, and tall machinery storage.
20ft Standard New / One-Trip
Near-showroom condition. Single overseas trip. Ideal for conversions, offices, and premium builds.
40ft High Cube New / One-Trip
Our flagship — pristine finish, extra height, cleanest option for container homes and offices.
Across I-10 and Into the Crescent.
We load at St. George, take I-95 south through Savannah and Jacksonville, pick up I-10 west across the Florida Panhandle, through Mobile, past the Mississippi Gulf Coast at Biloxi and Gulfport, across the Pearl River into Louisiana, through Slidell, over the Twin Span Bridge across Lake Pontchartrain’s eastern edge, and into the New Orleans metro. The drive is about nine hours, and most deliveries land within five to seven business days depending on scheduling and load sequencing.
Before the truck leaves, we walk through your site — surface type, gate clearance, turning radius, overhead lines, grade, and exact placement. New Orleans has delivery conditions unlike any other city in our service area. Much of the city sits below sea level, and the ground is soft — clay and alluvial soil that shifts, settles, and holds water. Surface preparation matters here more than anywhere else we deliver. Uptown and the Garden District have narrow streets, live oak canopy, and historic homes on small lots where access requires precision routing. The French Quarter and Marigny are tight urban blocks with one-way streets, low clearances, and almost no staging room. Mid-City and Gentilly have wider residential streets but aging infrastructure — cracked pavement, low-hanging utility lines, and drainage features that complicate placement. New Orleans East has commercial and industrial lots with better truck access, and the West Bank — Algiers, Gretna, Harvey, Marrero, Westwego — is reached via the Crescent City Connection or the Huey P. Long Bridge, with a mix of suburban residential and industrial access.
For deliveries to the Northshore — Slidell, Mandeville, Covington, Madisonville, Abita Springs — the route crosses the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway or follows I-12 west from Slidell, with generally straightforward suburban and semi-rural access. We also serve St. Bernard Parish, Plaquemines Parish, and the river parishes west of the city. We know the roads, we plan for the terrain, and the driver arrives with a clear path to your placement spot.
Get a Delivery Quote →Get a Container to New Orleans Today.
We deliver to the New Orleans metro and run the I-95 to I-10 corridor from South Carolina to Louisiana regularly. Call for an instant quote or fill out the form — we’ll get back to you within the hour during business hours.