20ft, 40ft, high cube, modified, and refrigerated containers delivered to Charleston and the Charleston metro area and the Lowcountry, including Mount Pleasant, North Charleston, Summerville, Goose Creek, Hanahan. Price always includes delivery.
Charleston is South Carolina's largest city, founded in 1670, the seat of Charleston County, and the center of a tri-county Lowcountry region that also reaches into Berkeley and Dorchester counties Deliveries reach Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester, Colleton, Georgetown, Beaufort, Williamsburg, Orangeburg counties, and the practical questions change from one part of the area to the next. South of Broad, Harleston Village, Ansonborough, the French Quarter, Radcliffeborough, Cannonborough-Elliotborough, Mazyck-Wraggborough, the Eastside, the Westside, Hampton Park Terrace, Wagener Terrace, North Central, Byrnes Downs, Avondale, South Windermere, Riverland Terrace, Harbor View, Daniel Island, Cainhoy, Johns Island each bring their own access, placement, and ground-preparation considerations.
Charleston is a three-county city, and the rule that governs your container is the rule belonging to whoever issues your permit. Inside the city limits, the City of Charleston Zoning Ordinance treats a shipping container used for on-site storage in a residential district as a portable storage unit with its own size, count, placement and duration limits, and treats outdoor storage of three or more containers as a separate conditional land use restricted to the LI and HI industrial districts. In unincorporated Charleston County a container is reviewed under the county's Zoning and Land Development Regulations, which allow permanent storage units only in a named list of agricultural, rural, commercial and industrial districts and require a zoning permit and screening. Mount Pleasant, North Charleston, Summerville, Goose Creek, Hanahan and each island town set their own rules again.
We have delivered containers throughout the Charleston metro area and the Lowcountry and we know the local ground: Four corner castings carrying the entire load onto four genuinely different soils. South Carolina Department of Natural Resources describes four physiographic regions, and a container meets each of them differently than a house does, because a house spreads its weight along a continuous footing and a container puts all of it through four points. The Piedmont, roughly a third of the state and most of the Upstate market, is deep red Cecil and Appling clay that holds water and softens when saturated, with high shrink-swell Iredell soils mixed through the same ground. The Sandhills belt is sandy over eolian sand, where drainage is rarely the issue and bearing sometimes is, because loose sand under a point load wants to spread. The coastal plain, half the state, runs from well drained sandy soils to poorly drained ones with a high water table, and at the marsh edge it turns to soft tidal deposits. Slope compounds all of it, and a great deal of the Greenville and Spartanburg market is on slope., along with the access and clearance realities of the streets here. Tell us your address and your situation, and you get an honest assessment and an accurate delivery quote.
Living on the coast means planning around hurricane season rather than reacting to it. A steel container is a plain, unglamorous way to do that. Wind and Water Tight and Cargo Worthy boxes keep records, generators, tools, equipment and the things you would hate to lose dry, locked and in one place you can reach quickly. One note specific to the city limits: Charleston's zoning ordinance requires portable storage units to be removed immediately when a tropical storm warning or hurricane watch is issued, so a temporary box on a driveway is not a storm plan. A permanent placement on ground zoned for it is a different conversation.
The trucking, transloading and warehousing that feeds the Charleston terminals runs on ground space it does not always control. An owned container gives a drayage or transload operation storage on its own yard, without per diem running on a steamship line's box. If you are stacking three or more containers outdoors, the city treats that as a defined land use with its own district and buffer rules, so plan the yard before the boxes arrive.
The manufacturing corridor from Boeing in North Charleston out to Volvo in Ridgeville, Mercedes-Benz Vans, Bosch in Ladson and Nucor in Huger runs lean on floor space. Containers hold tooling, packaging, spare parts and staged material at the fence line rather than in rented warehouse across the county, and industrial-zoned ground is the easiest place in the Lowcountry to put one.
Restoration crews working the peninsula and the older West Ashley and James Island neighborhoods have almost nowhere to stage material. A container keeps salvaged millwork, heart pine, cabinetry and new material out of the weather and out of the street. Inside the city limits the portable storage unit rules are specific about size, count, placement and duration, and the Old and Historic District adds Board of Architectural Review scrutiny on top, so this is a call to the Zoning Division before it is a delivery date.
On Johns Island, Wadmalaw, Sullivan's, Isle of Palms, Folly and Kiawah, owners and marinas use containers for boat gear, outboards, crab traps, kayaks, mowers and hurricane shutters. Steel and a good lock handle salt air far better than a wood shed does, and the box does not blow apart in a squall. Each of those places is its own jurisdiction with its own rules, which is the first thing to check.
Colleton, Dorchester, Berkeley and the rural end of Charleston County are working land. Containers hold feed, seed, chemicals, irrigation parts, chainsaws, tractor implements and deer camp gear dry and rodent-resistant, out at the field rather than back at the house. Unincorporated Charleston County allows permanent storage units as an accessory use in its agricultural and several of its rural, commercial and industrial districts, subject to a zoning permit and screening.
A few things shape how a delivery goes in this area:
For permit questions on a specific address, contact City of Charleston Department of Planning, Preservation and Sustainability, Zoning Division, 2 George Street, Suite 3100, Charleston SC 29401, phone (843) 724-3765, for zoning determinations. Building permits go through the City of Charleston Permit Center on the ground floor at 2 George Street, phone (843) 577-5550, permits@charleston-sc.gov. If the address is in unincorporated Charleston County rather than the city, call Charleston County Zoning and Planning at (843) 202-7200. Berkeley County Planning and Zoning is (843) 719-4095 and Dorchester County Planning and Zoning is (843) 563-0020..
Used wind and water tight and one-trip containers are both available. Every unit is inspected before delivery.
All-in pricing with delivery included. Call or text (330) 510-5817, or use the quote form above.