When you hear about shipping containers for sale, you may wonder why the average person would ever be interested in buying a steel cargo container. However, there are so many uses for these steel storage containers that once you learn more about them, you’ll be wondering where you can get yourself one.

Storage containers can be used for mobile offices, which are ideal for companies that need an onsite office when working in the field or companies that run their business on an undeveloped property and need an office space. This may apply to contractors, construction crews, used car lots, naturalist, photographers, and so on.

There are also idea spaces for artists, painters, crafters, or anyone that wants a space to call their own to do their craft or hobby in. They can be modified to include heating and air conditioning, plumbing, and electric. They can be modified to have rooms, windows, and normal size doorways. There are few limits to what you can do in modifying a storage container.

There are roughly 17 million shipping containers in the world and only around 6 million of them are being used for shipping. The rest have already been bought and modified or they are simply unused. This means there is a fairly massive market for used shipping containers that you can tap into when looking for a shipping container for sale.

Further, you don’t have to worry about trying to figure out the modifications on your own. There are already companies in place that are experienced experts in this area. Modifying cargo containers is what they do and they are good at it. These companies will even connect you with the shipping container, so you don’t even need to find one for sale.

Let your imagination go for a minute and think about all the possibilities. You could have a portable office, art studio, mother-in-law suite, she-shed, beach house, camping cabin, or anything else you can think of. Some people have even modified multiple shipping containers together to make a house.


Next time someone asks if you’ve ever heard of shipping containers for sale, you can say yes and tell them all the reasons why they may be interested in buying one.