Shipping container manufacturers and suppliers in India

Container manufacturing companies in India: who makes shipping containers

These are the makers of ISO shipping containers in India that public sources other than their own websites name as container builders, as of October 2026:

• APPL Containers (Aawadkrupa Plastomech), Bhavnagar, Gujarat: its container factory was inaugurated by the Prime Minister on 29 September 2022, and the trade press reported an order from CONCOR for 10,000 containers. On its own website, it says it also builds 45 ft high cube containers.
• DCM Containers: Business Standard reported on 4 July 2026 that Maersk had placed an order for 1,000 export-import grade containers with it, the first such order by a global shipping line. The government’s note on container manufacturing of August 2026 records that order “with DCM Shriram Group”, and the rollout, in July 2026, of the first India-manufactured export-import container for Maersk, unveiled at the Maersk–CONCOR inland depot at Dadri. The listed company DCM Shriram Ltd has told the stock exchange that the report does not concern it.
• Braithwaite & Co, Kolkata, a public sector company under the Ministry of Railways: the press reported an order from CONCOR for 1,000 containers in 2021, and a 20 ft ISO tank container for cement inspected by CONCOR in December 2024.

None of these companies is a partner of Asia Containers or pays to appear here: we name them only because public sources confirm their container factories.

Before the Dadri box, the orders placed with Indian factories came from Container Corporation of India (CONCOR) for its own fleet; the government calls the July 2026 container the first India-manufactured export-import box, built for a shipping line. The list of container factories approved by the Indian Register of Shipping is not public, and other names in directories and “top 10” lists are often shipping lines or cabin makers: without independent proof that they build ISO containers today, we leave them out. We found no proof of ISO reefer containers being built in India.

Can you buy one box from these factories?

Public sources show only bulk orders, from CONCOR and a shipping line; we found no public price list or minimum order for a single container. Ask the factory whether it sells one unit, and compare its delivered price with traders’ quotes.

How many containers does India make?

Few, so far. China controls the production of about 95% of the world’s shipping containers, by the count of the United States Trade Representative in January 2025. In India, the government told the Lok Sabha in December 2024 that CONCOR had ordered 20,890 containers from Indian manufacturers since 2021, of which 14,607 had been delivered by the end of November 2024, and that Indian capacity was limited. CONCOR’s annual report for 2025-26 adds 23,346 more ordered from Indian makers during the year, of which 5,009 were delivered.

The Union Budget of 2026-27 announced a scheme for container manufacturing of ₹10,000 crore over five years, which the government’s note of August 2026 calls the Container Manufacturing Assistance Scheme. It aims at up to 7.5 lakh TEU a year (a TEU is one 20 ft box), about ten times today’s Indian capacity, with some 3,000 direct jobs; taken at its word, that puts India’s output today at roughly 75,000 TEU a year, on our calculation. In March 2026 the scheme was still being appraised and in August it was still described as proposed: as of 23 October 2026, we found no Cabinet approval.

Is CONCOR a government company?

Yes. Container Corporation of India is a central public sector enterprise under the Ministry of Railways, with Navratna status since 2014; the government held 54.80% of its shares at 31 March 2026. It runs container trains and inland depots, and has ordered tens of thousands of containers from Indian makers since 2021.

Container manufacturers near you: factory, trader or cabin maker?

The “container manufacturers” that maps and directories show near you are often cabin makers or traders: few companies make ISO containers in India. Who sells what:

• ISO container factories build new boxes to the ISO standards; a classification society approves the design and the box carries the safety approval plate of the International Convention for Safe Containers (CSC). Their buyers named in public sources are CONCOR and a shipping line.
• Traders of new, one-trip containers sell boxes built abroad, mostly in China, that have made one voyage with cargo: see the new and one-trip 20 ft container, or import one yourself.
• Traders of used containers buy boxes that shipping lines and leasing companies retire, and sell them from their yards (container yard): the used containers for sale page lists their asking prices.
• Cabin makers build porta cabins and “MS containers” from steel sections and panels, often listed as containers: they are not shipping containers (container or porta cabin).

New or used, made in India or abroad, a real shipping container carries a CSC plate on its door and an 11-character container number.

Who owns cargo containers?

Shipping lines and leasing companies. At the end of 2023, leasing companies owned some 24.2 million TEU, about half of the world’s container fleet, by the estimate of one of them in its annual report; most of the rest belongs to the shipping lines, which also lease boxes from them.

How to check a container supplier

• Check its GSTIN with the free taxpayer search on the GST portal: the legal name must be the seller’s, the status must be Active, and the record should show returns being filed. A company’s details are also on the Ministry of Corporate Affairs’ master data search, which may ask you to log in.
• Ask for the box, not a catalogue photo: the container number, a photo of the CSC plate, and photos or a video call of that very box. A container number checker catches a misread or invented number. How to inspect a used container shows what to look at.
• For a new box from a factory, ask which classification society, in India for example the Indian Register of Shipping, approved its design for the CSC plate, and for that certificate.
• Pay safely: do not send a large advance to a seller you cannot verify, and pay a registered business against a tax invoice (GST and HSN code of containers). In July 2026, Telangana’s cyber security bureau warned, as the press reported, against advance payments made outside a seller’s official payment channels; report a fraud on the national cybercrime helpline, 1930.

Container suppliers near you: quotes by PIN code

Asia Containers does not sell or make containers. A quote request goes to partner sellers who cover your PIN code: say the size, new or used, how many, where it goes and whether you need a crane, and they reply with a delivered price. In our survey of 20 October 2026, a used 20 ft container is priced from ₹1,04,000, a used 40 ft from ₹1,55,000, and a new or one-trip 20 ft from ₹2,25,000: container price in India gives every size.

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