Shipping Containers For Sale in Paterson.

Nine Hours North, to America’s First Industrial City.

Our yard in St. George, South Carolina is about 660 miles from Paterson — roughly nine and a half hours up I-95 and I-80 west into Passaic County. Paterson is the third-largest city in New Jersey and one of the most historically significant industrial cities in America — it was literally founded as an industrial city in 1791 by Alexander Hamilton, who chose the Great Falls of the Passaic River as the power source for the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures. The mills that followed produced silk, cotton, locomotives, and Colt revolvers. The Great Falls — a 77-foot waterfall in the middle of the city — is now a National Historical Park, but the industrial DNA of Paterson never fully disappeared. The old mill buildings along the raceway system have been converted, demolished, or left vacant, but the working-class character of the city endures.

Modern Paterson is a dense, diverse city of roughly 160,000 people — one of the most densely populated cities in the United States — with a commercial economy driven by small businesses, food production (the city is famous for its Middle Eastern and Latin American restaurant and grocery economy), light manufacturing, and the construction trades. Passaic County generates enormous residential and commercial renovation demand — older housing stock, aging commercial buildings, and infrastructure that requires constant maintenance and replacement create a perpetual construction pipeline served by contractors who need portable, secure on-site storage.

We deliver across Passaic County — Paterson, Clifton, Passaic, Totowa, Wayne, Haledon, Hawthorne, Pompton Lakes, and the surrounding communities. Most deliveries from our yard land within four to six business days. No brokers. No third-party depot. Every container ships direct from St. George.

One company, one truck, one price. You deal with us from quote to placement.

The River Floods. The Falls Roar. Paterson Gets Wet.

The Passaic River runs through the heart of Paterson, and the Great Falls — while spectacular — are a symptom of the river’s power when it rises. The Passaic watershed drains a massive area of northern New Jersey, and when heavy rainfall saturates the upstream tributaries, the river rises rapidly and floods the low-lying areas of the city along its banks. Hurricane Irene in August 2011 pushed the Passaic to near-record levels and caused widespread flooding across Paterson, Little Falls, and Wayne. Homes along the river went underwater. Businesses in the flood zone were destroyed. The damage took years to repair.

The remnants of Hurricane Ida in September 2021 were even worse for northern New Jersey — record rainfall overwhelmed the Passaic watershed and produced catastrophic flooding across Passaic County. The river crested at historic levels. Roadways became rivers. Basements filled completely. Flash flooding killed people in vehicles and basement apartments across the region. Paterson took severe damage, and the communities downstream — Passaic, Wallington, Little Ferry — were devastated.

Nor’easters hammer northern New Jersey every winter with heavy snow, ice, and wind. The freeze-thaw cycle is brutal on outdoor structures. A shipping container is built for open-ocean conditions — North Atlantic gales, Pacific typhoons, months of salt spray and extreme temperature swings. Corrugated Corten steel walls, welded watertight roof seams, and marine-grade door gaskets are standard. Every container we sell is inspected before it leaves our yard. If you are storing anything in Paterson and you remember what Ida did to the Passaic River, a container built for ocean transit is the most weather-resistant option available.