20ft Dual Temperature Refrigerated ISO Container

About this unit

The 20ft Dual Temperature Container is part of our refrigerated containers range, held for sale and hire from our Queensland depot, delivered Australia-wide. Every unit is inspected before it leaves the yard: doors swung, seals checked, floor sounded and the frame photographed as found. Delivery is quoted against your postcode and site access, and we tell you before you commit whether the truck can set the unit down where you want it. Modification is available on this unit — doors, windows, partitions, insulation, power and fit-out — quoted separately and built in our own workshop.

Hire is available for short and long terms, with the same inspection standard applied to hired units as to sold ones.

20ft Dual Temperature Container is a steel container, supplied as an individual unit, held in the refrigerated containers range and released from our Queensland yard for delivery to every state and territory in Australia.

Recorded specification for this 20ft Dual Temperature Container: length 20 ft. Anything not listed here is quoted on request rather than assumed.

Every listing on this page describes the actual unit. Condition is inspected and photographed before dispatch, the price shown is the 20ft Dual Temperature Container only with delivery quoted separately against your postcode, and nothing on the page is a stock claim we cannot stand behind.

Buying a 20ft Dual Temperature Container

The 20ft Dual Temperature Container is sold as an individual unit, inspected before dispatch and priced as listed. If you are weighing up a 20ft Dual Temperature Container against a newer or larger equivalent, the condition report and the access to your site matter more than the model year.

What fits inside

As a working guide, a 20ft general purpose container holds roughly ten standard pallets in a single layer, and a 40ft holds about twenty. Ten foot units take a handful and suit tools and compact storage rather than palletised stock. High cube variants add a foot of internal height, which is worth having for anything tall, anything racked, or anything a person has to stand up inside.

Ground, drainage and where to put it

A container wants firm, level ground that will carry a loaded truck. Compacted crushed rock, concrete or hardstand all work; bare soil will settle unevenly and rack the frame. Set it slightly proud of the ground so water runs away rather than under the floor, and leave room at the door end to swing both leaves fully — a container door needs more clearance than most people allow for.

How it is inspected before dispatch

Every unit is opened and checked before it leaves the yard, not described from a listing. Doors are swung and latched, seals are checked for compression, the floor is sounded across the span for soft spots, and the frame is photographed as found — before a wash, not after. You see photographs of the actual unit before freight is booked, so what turns up is what you agreed to buy.

Buying remotely

Most of these units are bought by people who never see the yard, and that is fine when the condition reporting is honest. Ask for the inspection photos, get the grade confirmed in writing, and check whether the quoted price includes delivery — a cheaper unit with freight excluded is frequently the more expensive purchase once the truck is booked.

Delivery and what it costs

The price shown is the 20ft Dual Temperature Container only. Delivery is quoted separately against your postcode and site access, and it is the honest way to do it — a drop fifteen kilometres from the yard and a drop twelve hundred kilometres away are not the same job. Units are released from our Queensland yard and delivered to every state and territory in Australia. Queensland drops generally run on our own trucks; interstate moves on scheduled freight, with the booked window and carrier details confirmed in writing before dispatch.

Tell us about tight gates, low branches and overhead lines when you ask for a price. If a tilt-tray cannot reach the drop point, a crane or side-loader will, and knowing that up front is the difference between an accurate quote and a second invoice.

Changes, fit-out and modification

Anything that needs cutting, welding, wiring or lining is done in our own workshop rather than subcontracted, which is why we can tell you what a change will actually cost before you commit. Doors, windows, partitions, insulation, power, plumbing and full fit-outs are all container modification work we quote on the details of your job rather than off a price list.

Hire instead of buying

If the need is for the life of a project rather than forever, hiring is usually cheaper and you do not carry the asset, the transport or the maintenance. Buy when the 20ft Dual Temperature Container is permanent, when you need a specific configuration, or when the hire term would run past the purchase price. Short and long terms are both available, and we will quote it against the same unit you are looking at here.

Further reading

For import and export requirements, see Australian Border Force. Nothing on that site is specific to this 20ft Dual Temperature Container, and we do not give regulatory advice — but it is where the rules that apply to owning and moving a 20ft Dual Temperature Container are published.

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What condition means on this 20ft Dual Temperature Container

Condition on a container is not one thing. It is a set of separate questions, and buyers who treat it as a single yes-or-no usually end up disappointed on one of them. The ones that matter are structural soundness, water tightness, the state of anything that moves, and cosmetics — and they fail independently. A container can be structurally perfect and still leak at the door seals; it can be watertight and still have a floor that gives under a pallet truck.

The grade this 20ft Dual Temperature Container is offered in is cargo-worthy, wind and watertight, or as-is. That describes what it is fit for, not how it looks. Cosmetic marks — scuffs, faded paint, old decals, minor dents that do not affect the frame — are consistent with any working grade and are not defects. What would be a defect is a hole through the panel, a soft floor, a seized lock or a bent frame, and none of those are being offered here.

How this 20ft Dual Temperature Container is inspected before dispatch

The inspection list for a container is short and unglamorous, and that is the point. It covers doors swung open and shut, door seals run by hand, floor sounded for soft spots, corner castings inspected, frame and roof photographed as found. None of it requires special equipment; all of it requires someone to actually do it rather than assume.

The reason to spell this out is that buying a container remotely is otherwise a leap of faith. You are trusting a photograph and a sentence. The inspection is what turns those into something you can act on: specific findings, recorded at a specific time, on the 20ft Dual Temperature Container with your name on it. Anything found is disclosed before dispatch, not after payment.

Specification and what is not included

The recorded specification for this 20ft Dual Temperature Container is length 20 ft. That is the list we will stand behind and the list the 20ft Dual Temperature Container will be checked against before it leaves the yard. Where a specification is silent — and on a used or ex-fleet unit it often is — the answer is that it is not claimed, rather than assumed to be standard.

What is not included matters just as much. Delivery is quoted separately against your postcode and site access. Any modification — site storage, fit-out, extra doors, power, insulation — is quoted as a separate scope once the layout is known. Consumables, fixings and site preparation at your end are yours. Nothing is bundled into the price shown on this page, so there is no surprise line on the invoice.

Delivery and site access

Most delivery problems are access problems wearing a distance disguise. A container on a tilt-tray truck or a side-loader needs width, height, turning room and a firm surface. If any of those is missing the driver will stop rather than risk the 20ft Dual Temperature Container, the truck or the fence — and that is the correct decision, but it costs everyone a day.

We quote delivery against postcode and site access, and we would rather have an awkward conversation about your driveway on the phone than an awkward one at the gate. Tell us the approach, the surface and whether there are overhead lines, and the quote will carry the right equipment. Delivery runs Australia-wide from our Queensland yard.

What modification is possible on this 20ft Dual Temperature Container

Modification is quoted separately once the layout is known, because the honest answer to "how much" is that it depends on what you are trying to achieve. A door in a flat panel is a different job from a door in corrugation. Windows in a lined space are a different job from windows in a bare shell. Power is a different job again depending on whether it needs to be certified for the use you have in mind.

The work is done in our own workshop rather than subcontracted, which is why the quote can be specific. Come with a sketch, a purpose and a constraint — budget, timeline, or the fact that it has to pass an inspection — and the scope can be priced against that. Common changes for a container of this kind are site storage, secure tool lock-up and shipping and export.

Hire as well as purchase

Hire is available on this 20ft Dual Temperature Container for short and long terms, and the same inspection standard applies to a hired unit as to a sold one. That is not a marketing line: a hired container that fails on site costs the hirer a day of labour and costs us the relationship, so the incentive to check it is identical.

Hire suits a project with a known end date, a trial before committing to a purchase, or a peak that does not justify owning a unit outright. Terms are quoted against duration and delivery distance. If you are weighing hire against purchase, the useful comparison is not the monthly rate — it is the monthly rate plus delivery, collected twice, against the purchase price less whatever the 20ft Dual Temperature Container is still worth at the end.

Buying this 20ft Dual Temperature Container instead of the alternatives

The alternative to a container is usually a site shed or a lock-up garage. That option wins on one axis and loses on others, and which axis matters depends on your site. Purpose-built structures are easier to finance and easier to insure as fixed property; a container is faster to place, easier to relocate and usually cheaper per square metre of covered space.

The question worth asking is how long you need it, and what happens at the end. If the answer is "two years then we move", a container that can be picked up and taken with you is worth more than a cheaper structure that cannot. If the answer is "twenty years and it never moves", the calculus changes, and it is worth saying so before you buy.

What buyers usually ask

Is the price negotiable? The price shown is the 20ft Dual Temperature Container price. Delivery, modification and hire are separate. Ask about multiple units in one delivery — that is where there is usually room, because the saving is in the trip.

Can I inspect it first? Yes. The yard is in Queensland and inspections are welcome by arrangement. Bring a torch and a tape measure; the two things buyers most often wish they had brought are light and a way to check that the dimensions suit what they intend to put inside.

How do I pay? Bank transfer or PayID. The order number goes on the transfer reference so the payment can be matched without an email chain. Card payment is not offered because the surcharge would have to be added to the price.

What if it is not what I expected? Say so before it is modified or dispatched. Once a unit has been cut, painted or delivered, the scope of what can be undone shrinks quickly — which is why the inspection photographs exist and why we send them.

Do you deliver to my area? Delivery is Australia-wide. The quote depends on distance and access, and both are things you can influence by describing your site accurately.

What to check when it arrives

Check the 20ft Dual Temperature Container against the photographs before the truck leaves. That sounds obvious and is routinely skipped, because the driver is in a hurry and everyone wants the job done. Ten minutes spent walking the 20ft Dual Temperature Container with the listing open on your phone is the cheapest insurance in the transaction.

Look at the four things that are expensive to fix: the floor, the door and its seals, the frame at the corners, and the roof. Everything else is cosmetic. If something does not match, note it on the delivery paperwork and photograph it before signing. A note made at delivery is a conversation about a fix; a note made a week later is a conversation about who is responsible.

Then leave it alone for a wet week before you load it, if you can. Water finds the weak point on its own schedule, and a dry week hides more than a wet one reveals.

Cost of ownership beyond the purchase price

The purchase price is the smallest part of what a container costs over its life, and the parts that follow are worth planning for. There is delivery in, and — if it ever moves — delivery out. There is the surface it sits on, which determines whether it stays level and whether the doors keep operating. There is whatever it takes to keep water out as the seals age. And there is the cost of the space it occupies, which in a city yard is not nothing.

Against that, a container depreciates far more slowly than a fitted-out building and can usually be sold into a live market rather than written off. The resale value is the reason used units hold their price, and it is the reason buying a sound used unit rather than the cheapest available one tends to work out better over five years.

Looking after a container

Most of what shortens the working life of a container is avoidable, and the avoidable parts are the same on every site. Standing water on the roof. A base that settles unevenly under one corner. Seals that were never looked at because the doors still shut. Fixings that were cut in and never sealed. None of these are dramatic failures; they are slow ones, and they compound.

A sensible routine is seasonal rather than constant. Before the wet season, clear the roof and check the door seals. Once a quarter, operate every moving part and look at the corners and the floor for anything new. Once a year, walk the whole thing with a torch and a camera, and compare the photographs to last year's. That comparison is what catches a problem while it is still a touch-up rather than a panel replacement.

The terms used on this page

A few terms come up repeatedly when buyers discuss a container, and they are worth defining plainly because they are often used loosely. Cargo-worthy means the 20ft Dual Temperature Container would still be accepted for freight — structurally sound, watertight, no holes. Wind and watertight means exactly that: it keeps weather out, without any claim about freight certification. As-is means what it says, cosmetic and functional faults disclosed but not rectified.

One-trip, sometimes called single-trip, means the 20ft Dual Temperature Container has made one loaded voyage and is effectively new in service terms. Grade A describes the best cosmetic condition in a used band, not a structural standard. High cube refers to the extra height — around 9ft 6in against the standard 8ft 6in. Cor-ten and corten steel are the weathering steel most containers are built from. Where a term on this page is not one of these, it is being used in its ordinary sense and not as a rating.

Next step on this 20ft Dual Temperature Container

If this 20ft Dual Temperature Container looks like the right unit, the fastest way to a firm number is to send the product name and your postcode. That gets a delivered price, which is the only price worth comparing against another supplier's delivered price. If the layout needs changing, describe the change at the same time and both can be quoted together rather than in sequence.

If it is not quite right, say what is wrong with it. Too long, too short, wrong colour, wrong grade, wrong end of the budget — every one of those is a useful description, and it is quicker than starting the search again from the top of the catalogue.

Quick answers

Is this 20ft dual temperature container in stock? Yes — stock is confirmed when the order is quoted — ask before you commit and the answer will be specific to this unit rather than to the catalogue.

What condition is the 20ft dual temperature container in? Yes — it is offered in the grade named on this page, inspected on the unit itself and photographed as found before dispatch.

Can I inspect the 20ft dual temperature container before buying? Yes — yes — inspections at the Queensland yard are welcome by arrangement.

What do I get for the price of the 20ft dual temperature container? Yes — the unit itself, inspected and photographed before dispatch, with delivery quoted separately against your postcode.

Can the 20ft dual temperature container be delivered outside Queensland? Yes — yes — delivery runs Australia-wide from the Queensland yard, priced on distance and site access.

Can the 20ft dual temperature container be modified before it is delivered? Yes — yes — doors, windows, power, insulation and fit-out are quoted as a separate scope once the layout is known.

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Specification

Length	20 ft
Category	Refrigerated Containers
Availability	In stock — inspected in our Queensland yard

Delivery & hire

Delivery is quoted by postcode and site access — tilt-tray where the truck can reach, crane where it cannot. Hire is available on this unit for short and long terms, with the same inspection standard applied to hired units as to sold ones. Modification is quoted separately once we know the layout you need.