20ft Shipping Containers in Pennsylvania

20ft Container Dimensions & Details

The 20ft standard container, sometimes called a TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit) or a conex box, is the global standard in intermodal shipping. It is the most widely available container size and the most practical choice for most Pennsylvania residential and small-business customers.

At 20 feet long and 8 feet wide it fits comfortably in a standard driveway and can be placed on most lots without special equipment or extensive site preparation. The steel handles what Pennsylvania weather brings, including winter, meaning snow load, ice and the freeze and thaw cycle that moves unpaved ground and Severe thunderstorms with straight line wind and hail, common statewide from late spring into August, River and flash flooding in the valleys, which is how the inland remnants of tropical systems usually reach Pennsylvania: as rainfall on a full river rather than as coastal wind, Ice storms and freezing rain, which sit on ridges and north facing grades long after the rest of a county has thawed, Tornadoes, less frequent here than on the plains and still real, most often in the warm months across the southeast and the west, Lake effect snow in Erie and Crawford counties, where a hundred inches in a winter is normal rather than remarkable, which is why we set boxes with the doors facing away from the prevailing lake wind, Radon, which is an indoor air question rather than a weather one and is more of a Pennsylvania issue than almost anywhere in the country. It only becomes a container question when a box is finished into occupied space over a slab or a crawl space.

Rowhouse renovations and moves in Philadelphia, the anthracite boroughs and Center City Allentown, where the lot is narrow, there is no garage and the box often has to work from the curb.

Contractor tool and material storage on job sites across Bucks, Chester, Montgomery, Delaware, Lehigh, Northampton, Allegheny and Butler counties, replacing the daily load in and load out.

Farm, timber and hunting camp storage from Lancaster and Berks through the Susquehanna Valley and up into the Pennsylvania Wilds, where the container is often the only lockable building on the parcel.

Pittsburgh and ridge country sites that will never take a 40ft: on hillside streets and switchback drives, two 20ft boxes place where one long box cannot, and give you two doors and two locations.

Gas pad, pipeline and utility crew storage across the southwest and the Northern Tier, holding valves, fittings, spill kits and protective equipment at a site with no building on it.

Winter storage for campgrounds, marinas, ski areas and short term rental managers through the Poconos and the Laurel Highlands, where an entire season's equipment has to go somewhere in October.