394 asking prices on IndiaMART and TradeIndia · 54 listings with an exact price · read 20 Oct 2026
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Asking prices differ widely: for a used 20 feet shipping container, half of the 116 sellers we read on 20 October 2026 ask between ₹1,04,000 and ₹1,40,000, ₹36,000 apart. Several quotes show you where the low end is.
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Compare container prices this week: 20 ft, 40 ft, high cube, reefer
Illustration From₹1,04,000 116 sellers Typical ₹1,20,000 See prices and sizes Used 40 feet shipping container 
Illustration From₹1,55,000 80 sellers Typical ₹1,80,000 See prices and sizes Used 40 feet high cube container (40 HC) 
Illustration From₹1,58,000 27 sellers Typical ₹1,90,000 See prices and sizes New and one-trip 20 feet container Illustration From₹2,25,000 4 sellers, too few for a firm price See prices and sizes 40 feet high cube container, new / one-trip Illustration From₹3,00,000 2 sellers, too few for a firm price See prices and sizes Used 40 feet reefer container (high cube) 
Illustration From₹5,50,000 8 sellers See prices and sizes From: a low market price, which a quarter of the sellers ask or less (at least half of the prices found under 10 sellers); typical: half of the sellers ask it or less. For a used 20 ft box, the typical price ran from Mumbai region and Chennai (₹1,07,500) to Hyderabad (₹1,40,000) by area this week. Delivery extra; most listings do not say whether GST is included.
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Shipping container cost delivered: trucking, unloading and GST
The price of the box is only part of the bill. Trucking on a trailer, crane or side-lifter unloading and GST (18%) come on top, and most listings show none of them. The delivered price estimate puts them side by side before you ask anyone. Published door-delivery rates exist for a few lanes only:
| Route | Road km | Box | One way | Per km | Tariff dated |
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| Mundra → Ahmedabad (Kathwada) | 439 | 40 ft | ₹37,399 | ₹85 | 9 January 2026 |
| Mundra → Delhi NCR (Gurgaon) | 1,139 | 40 ft | ₹1,06,179 | ₹93 | 9 January 2026 |
| Mundra → Delhi NCR (Delhi) | 1,164 | 40 ft | ₹94,029 | ₹81 | 9 January 2026 |
| Mundra → Delhi NCR (Noida) | 1,166 | 40 ft | ₹87,289 | ₹75 | 9 January 2026 |
| Mundra → Delhi NCR (Alipur / Khera Kalan) | 1,171 | 40 ft | ₹87,000 | ₹74 | 17 September 2026 |
Door delivery of one container on a trailer, as published in a shipping line's inland haulage tariff (currency not printed on the tariff, read as rupees; GST not stated). Road distances computed with OSRM on OpenStreetMap data on 20 October 2026. No 20 ft rate and no other port had a public door-delivery tariff dated in the last 12 months.
Before you buy a shipping container
Cargo-worthy, wind and water tight or as-is: what the words in a listing promise, and what they do not.
Inside size, door opening, tare and payload of every common box, in millimetres and kilos.
When a city treats a container as a building, and the few cases where no permission is needed.
Container on rent, converted or bought
The lowest monthly rent listed in our survey for a 20 ft container on rent is ₹14,000, transport extra: renting suits a site that lasts months rather than years. The only converted container that passed our test of a real shipping container, a 40 ft office, asks ₹4,00,000; most container offices and homes sold in India are prefab cabins, which a porta cabin comparison helps to spot.
Container rates in India: how we read the asking prices
Every week we read the asking prices that sellers publish on IndiaMART and TradeIndia, 394 of them on 20 October 2026, and we keep a smaller survey of listings with an exact price on sellers’ own pages. Cabins, converted units and doubtful prices are left out. Each container then gets one price, the same on every page of this site: “from” is a low market price, which a quarter of the sellers ask or less (at least half of the prices found when there are fewer than ten sellers), and “typical” is what half of them ask or less. We never show who the sellers are, and we do not sell containers ourselves: when you ask for quotes, partner sellers who cover your PIN code answer with their own boxes and their own prices, and you buy from the one you choose. How the survey works and how it works.