Do you deliver shipping containers to Murwillumbah?

Yes. Murwillumbah and the Tweed Valley are on our regular run — the town itself, the cane and banana country along the river, Uki, Kunghur and the hill blocks under Wollumbin. Delivery is quoted with the container, so you get one price for the unit landed on your block rather than a container price and a freight bill later. Ring 02 6622 1322 with the address and we will quote it the same day where we can.

What container sizes can you deliver to Murwillumbah?

10ft, 20ft and 40ft general purpose units, plus 20ft and 40ft high cubes, in new single-trip and used cargo-worthy grades. The 20ft is what most Murwillumbah jobs come down to. On the valley floor a 40ft is straightforward; on the hill blocks the road usually decides the size, and a 20ft or 10ft is often the honest answer.

Should I hire or buy a container in Murwillumbah?

Buy if it is staying — a rebuild that will run for a year, a shed you will still be using in five. Hire if the need has an end date: a fit-out, a harvest, a three-month renovation, a project with a compliance schedule attached. Hire is quoted as a weekly rate with cartage in and out priced beside it, so you see the whole cost. Tell us the job and how long it runs and we will quote both ways.

Can you get a container up Kyogle Road towards Uki and Kunghur?

Usually, and the road decides the size rather than the block does. Those roads climb fast, narrow up and are canopied in stretches, so a 40ft is often out before we start. A 20ft reaches most addresses and a 10ft reaches almost all of them. Give us the address first and we will tell you what will physically get there.

The cane paddock goes soft — when should we book?

Talk to us about timing rather than pushing through it. A loaded truck asks a great deal more of a headland than machinery does, and a bogged truck costs everyone a day and sometimes damages the track as well. After a wet fortnight we would rather wait, bring plates, or place the unit nearer the hard surface and let you move it in better conditions.

What size actually fits in the older streets in town?

It depends less on the container than on what is above it. A tilt-tray has to raise its bed to a steep angle to slide a container off, and the mature street planting, the verandah roofs and the older service runs through the old part of town all get in the way of that. Where the air is not there, a crane truck lifting from a fixed position is the answer. A photo from the street tells us which truck it needs.

We are on low ground near the river — what do you actually recommend?

Put it as high as the block allows, build the pad up if the site and the budget let you, keep it clear of the drain lines and the corner where water gathers in ordinary rain, and set it with a fall away from the doors. Do not store the irreplaceable at floor level. And ring us and describe the block — we have delivered onto a lot of ground like yours and we will tell you honestly if what you are describing needs a builder or an engineer rather than a steel box.

Container delivery · Murwillumbah NSW 2484

Shipping containers Murwillumbah

The Tweed Valley, sitting in the bowl of an ancient volcano with Wollumbin at the head of it. Cane and small crops on the flats, steep green blocks on the slopes, and a town that has learned more than it ever wanted to know about the river it sits beside.

Get a free container price for Murwillumbah delivery Call 02 6622 1322

Postcode 2484The run About 85 km north via Mullumbimby and the Tweed Valley WayUsual vehicle Tilt-tray on the valley floor; crane truck for the old town streets and the hill blocksUsed 20ft from $2,200 ex GST

What Murwillumbah keeps in them

When we price for Murwillumbah, the box is usually holding storage on the cane, banana and small-crop blocks through the valley, workshops and studios on the hill country, storage for owner-builders and renovators working at their own pace, trade and building storage, packing-shed overflow through picking season, gear storage for the businesses at the industrial end of town, and household storage for people between houses. We work backwards from the load: how big, how valuable, how much damp it can stand. The container falls out of those answers.

The rule we use: if a drip would cost you money, buy cargo-worthy. If it would not, as-is — which is not sold watertight — saves you money. Ask for pictures of your unit and they reach you before the truck does.

Guide prices, ex GST
Size	Used from	New from	Hire from
10ft Containers	$4,350	$6,400	POA
20ft Containers	$2,200	$3,300	$27/wk
40ft Containers	$2,600	$5,500	POA

Ex GST, as a floor. A quote names the unit and covers getting it to Murwillumbah — there is no separate freight bill.

The valley floor, and when to book

The flats along the Tweed grow things very well for exactly the reason they are hard to drive a loaded truck across. Alluvial ground holds water for days after the rain has stopped, and it does it without looking any different from the outside. A headland that carried the tractor on Friday is not necessarily carrying six tonnes on a rigid axle on Monday.

The practical version is that timing is part of planning a delivery here, and it is worth treating as a real part of the job rather than an inconvenience. Where ground is marginal we will do one of three things: wait for it to dry, bring plates, or set the container closer to the hard surface than you had in mind and let you shift it later with a machine that weighs a fraction of what our truck does.

If the spot is on the flat, it is also worth walking the block after ordinary rain and watching where the water actually goes before anything is placed. A container set across a natural drain line collects standing water around the door threshold, and the bottom of the door aperture is the part of the box you least want sitting wet.

The hill blocks under Wollumbin

West and north of town the country climbs quickly, and the roads that serve it were formed for smaller vehicles than the one bringing your container. They narrow, they switch back, and the canopy closes over them in stretches. A rigid twelve-metre load simply will not use several of them, and no amount of planning changes that.

So on the hill blocks the road picks the size. A 20ft reaches most places. A 10ft reaches almost anywhere, and on some of these driveways it is the honest answer rather than a downgrade. Two 20ft units delivered separately are often a better outcome than one 40ft that cannot get past the second bend.

The other thing the truck needs up here is somewhere to turn around. A driver who has climbed two kilometres of one-lane track has to get back down it, and nobody is reversing a switchback with a load on. On shared and unformed driveways — there are a lot of them through this country — that is worth confirming before a truck is booked rather than after it arrives.

Where the run-in does not exist at all, a crane truck standing in one spot and lifting the container over the obstacle is usually what solves it. It costs more per job than a tilt-tray and it puts containers onto terraces, behind houses and over fences where nothing else will. On the steeper blocks here it is often the only method that works, and it is worth pricing properly rather than assuming it is out of reach.

Siting near the river, said plainly

The Tweed has been through this town more than once in living memory, and twice in the last decade in a way people here do not need reminding about. We deliver a lot of containers into this valley that are part of a rebuild or part of a decision somebody made afterwards about where their things are going to live. So we would rather be direct than let anything be inferred.

A container that is checked wind and watertight is sealed against weather arriving from above. That is a real claim and it is the whole claim. Water that rises reaches the bottom of the door seals — the least sealed part of the whole box — and gets in, and a sealed steel box has nowhere to drain it away to afterwards. A container with air in it will also lift, and several tonnes of loose steel travelling in moving water is a hazard to whatever is downstream of it, including other people's property.

What steel genuinely gives you here is height, mobility and dry lockable storage on your own block while a job runs. You choose the ground it stands on, and the highest useable spot on a property beats the most convenient one every time. It can be lifted back onto a truck and moved, if there is warning and the access road is still open. And it does the job of holding the contents of a house that is back to frames better than anything else at the price. Our full treatment of this is in the guide on containers and flood risk on the Richmond, and it applies just as squarely to the Tweed.

Murwillumbah roads, drives and ground

Three quite different deliveries happen in this postcode and it is worth saying which one you are before we talk about size. The valley floor is Tweed River alluvium — deep, productive, easy to work and genuinely soft once it has had a wet fortnight, and the headlands and farm tracks through the cane are the first surfaces to give up. The older parts of town are the usual story for a town of this age: narrow streets, mature planting, cars along both sides, verandah roofs and awnings out over the footpath, and services strung at a height that suited a different era of truck. And then there is the hill country — the blocks running west up Kyogle Road towards Uki and Kunghur, and north towards the range — where the road decides the size of the container rather than the block does. Getting to Murwillumbah is easy enough from the north-east on the Tweed Valley Way. The route that looks shortest on a map, straight over the range from Lismore through Nimbin and Uki, is a long slow climb for a loaded truck and we will usually take the longer way round. Tell us the address before you settle on a size, and tell us if your road crosses the river on anything other than the main bridges.

Rain changes the answer here more than distance does. A paddock that takes a tilt-tray in a dry spell can bog one after a wet week, so tell us the surface and the weather. More on ground and access.

Murwillumbah — common questions

Do you deliver shipping containers to Murwillumbah?: Yes. Murwillumbah and the Tweed Valley are on our regular run — the town itself, the cane and banana country along the river, Uki, Kunghur and the hill blocks under Wollumbin. Delivery is quoted with the container, so you get one price for the unit landed on your block rather than a container price and a freight bill later. Ring 02 6622 1322 with the address and we will quote it the same day where we can.
What container sizes can you deliver to Murwillumbah?: 10ft, 20ft and 40ft general purpose units, plus 20ft and 40ft high cubes, in new single-trip and used cargo-worthy grades. The 20ft is what most Murwillumbah jobs come down to. On the valley floor a 40ft is straightforward; on the hill blocks the road usually decides the size, and a 20ft or 10ft is often the honest answer.
Should I hire or buy a container in Murwillumbah?: Buy if it is staying — a rebuild that will run for a year, a shed you will still be using in five. Hire if the need has an end date: a fit-out, a harvest, a three-month renovation, a project with a compliance schedule attached. Hire is quoted as a weekly rate with cartage in and out priced beside it, so you see the whole cost. Tell us the job and how long it runs and we will quote both ways.
Can you get a container up Kyogle Road towards Uki and Kunghur?: Usually, and the road decides the size rather than the block does. Those roads climb fast, narrow up and are canopied in stretches, so a 40ft is often out before we start. A 20ft reaches most addresses and a 10ft reaches almost all of them. Give us the address first and we will tell you what will physically get there.
The cane paddock goes soft — when should we book?: Talk to us about timing rather than pushing through it. A loaded truck asks a great deal more of a headland than machinery does, and a bogged truck costs everyone a day and sometimes damages the track as well. After a wet fortnight we would rather wait, bring plates, or place the unit nearer the hard surface and let you move it in better conditions.
What size actually fits in the older streets in town?: It depends less on the container than on what is above it. A tilt-tray has to raise its bed to a steep angle to slide a container off, and the mature street planting, the verandah roofs and the older service runs through the old part of town all get in the way of that. Where the air is not there, a crane truck lifting from a fixed position is the answer. A photo from the street tells us which truck it needs.
We are on low ground near the river — what do you actually recommend?: Put it as high as the block allows, build the pad up if the site and the budget let you, keep it clear of the drain lines and the corner where water gathers in ordinary rain, and set it with a fall away from the doors. Do not store the irreplaceable at floor level. And ring us and describe the block — we have delivered onto a lot of ground like yours and we will tell you honestly if what you are describing needs a builder or an engineer rather than a steel box.