A shipping container is a steel box that is already weatherproof, secure and built to be moved. That makes it one of the cheapest ways to get a building onto a site — an office, a workshop, a store room, a ticket booth — without pouring a slab or waiting on a builder.
Commercial Containers Australia supplies the container and manages the modification through the fabricators we work with, each chosen for what they do well. We handle the whole job: sourcing the right unit, getting the work done, and delivering it to your site on our own trucks. You deal with us, not with three different trades.
No job is too big or too small. We have cut a single roller door into a 20ft storage unit, and we have delivered full fit-outs with power, lighting, insulation and windows.
What We Can Build
Open Side
Full-length opening down one side, so the whole container becomes a shopfront or display space. The pair pictured were modified for a winery to show off their product range.
Storage Units With Roller Doors
You choose the container size and the number of roller doors. Popular for self-storage, clubs and trade storage where fast access matters more than floor space.
Site Office
Built to your specification for a mobile office. Lined, insulated, wired and fitted with a personnel door and glazing, then delivered ready to use.
Ticket Office
A serving hatch, a counter and a lock-up shell — modified to suit a ticket booth or event kiosk that has to be moved between sites.
Office With Doors & Windows
Sliding windows and a personnel door cut into the side, finished in white. Designed to your specification.
Office With External Lighting
External lighting, power and a finished exterior, for sites that need the container to look like a permanent building.
Modifications We Arrange
Doors and access
Personnel doors, roller doors, sliding doors, open side conversions, and removing or relocating the original cargo doors.
Light and air
Windows, louvres, skylights, whirlybirds, vents, security bars and mesh.
Fit-out
Insulation, internal lining, flooring, partition walls, shelving, benching and work stations.
Services
Electrical fit-out, lighting, power outlets, switchboards, data cabling and air conditioning.
Outside
Repainting in your colour, signage and decals, external lighting, stairs, landings and handrails.
Structural
Dividing a container into two lockable halves, joining containers, cutting for machinery access, and reinforcing for stacking.
How It Works
1
Tell us what it is for
Not the specification — the job. A crib room for eight, a lock-up for a mower fleet, a pop-up bar. The use decides the size and the fit-out.
2
We pick the container
Anything from 6ft to 45ft, in the right grade. A unit that will be lined and painted does not need to be A-grade; one that will be a shopfront does.
3
The work is done
We brief the fabricator, keep an eye on the job and let you know where it is up to.
4
We deliver it
On our own trucks, by tilt tray, side loader or crane depending on your site.
Delivered Anywhere in Victoria
A modified container is heavier and more awkward than a standard unit. A fitted-out office can carry another tonne of lining, glazing and services, and glazing does not like being dragged. We allow for that when we quote the transport, and we place the unit rather than slide it wherever the fit-out calls for it.
We deliver modified containers across Melbourne metro, western Victoria, north east Victoria, south west Victoria and Geelong and Gippsland, and interstate on request. See all the areas we service.
If a modification is not what you need, we also have standard containers for sale and for hire from 6ft to 45ft.
Why Commercial Containers Australia
Australian-owned and Melbourne based, with over 14,000 containers supplied and delivered. We own the containers, we manage the modification, and we run our own transport through our sister company Commercial Towing Australia — so one phone call covers the whole job. Open Monday to Saturday, 7am to 5pm.
Get A Quote
Tell us what the container is for and roughly where it is going, and we will come back to you with a price for the unit, the modification and the delivery. Photos of your site access help us get it right first time.