40ft container
Standard 40ft steel shipping container
Twice the floor of a 20ft for not much more ground. Farms, builders merchants and events companies use them as a warehouse that can be moved, and it takes a large family home.
Size and capacity
| Internal length | 12014mm (39ft 5in) |
| Internal width | 2330mm (7ft 8in) |
| Internal height | 2350mm (7ft 9in) |
| Door opening | 2280mm x 2260mm (7ft 8in x 7ft 5in) |
| Load volume | 66.83 m3 (2360 cu ft) |
| Unladen weight | 3950kg |
| External size | 40ft x 8ft x 8ft 6in |
Source: Containers Direct. Sizes vary a little between companies.