E&S Equipment Sales has been selling shipping containers across Florida and Georgia since 2010. The business is family-owned, and the experience behind it goes back a lot further than the founding year suggests. Michael Bader, our owner, spent more than 30 years in the ocean cargo and intermodal industry before opening our doors, working as a logistics and maintenance manager for major cargo lines out of West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale. 

When he saw how many Floridians and Georgians were getting stuck with sheds, barns, and self-storage units that didn’t fit their needs, he saw an opening. People needed serious, weatherproof storage that could sit on a farm, a job site, or a backyard for decades. Shipping containers were the answer. E&S was born to bring them straight to the customer, without the middleman.

Fifteen years later, that’s still what we do. Just on a much bigger scale.

What 12,000+ containers later looks like

In 2026 we delivered our 12,000th container. That milestone covers a lot of ground: individuals, farms, contractors, auto dealers, HOAs, equipment companies, school districts, and city and county governments across Florida and Georgia. We sell to anyone who needs honest storage at a fair price, but our roots are in commercial and government work, and that experience shapes everything we sell.

A few things we’re proud of:

• Michael is a licensed container surveyor, which means we can issue CSC certificates for containers heading overseas. Most of our competitors can’t.
• Every container is inspected before it leaves our depot.
• We hold direct inventory and skip the broker model entirely, which is how we keep wholesale pricing available to the public.
• All our drivers are CDL-licensed, and the company is fully licensed and insured.
• We’ve been members of the National Portable Storage Association for over 11 years, the Florida Self Storage Association for over 8 years, and the Columbia County and Suwannee County Chambers of Commerce. We’re also registered on SAM.gov for federal contracts.

You’re not buying from a call center reading off a screen. You’re buying from a team that’s been selling steel for a living since the 1990s.

A real one-stop shop, not just a sales rep

Plenty of container companies will sell you a box and disappear. That’s not the business we built. Beyond new One-Trip and Cargo Worthy used containers in 10′, 20′, 40′, and 45′ high cube sizes, we also handle some modifications in-house. Man doors, roll-up doors, windows, wall A/C units, ramps, lock boxes, custom paint, we’ve been doing this work for 15 years. Most of our competitors don’t touch mods at all.

We also stock specialty equipment that’s harder to find: refrigerated reefers, non-running insulated units, double-door containers (manufactured that way in China, not converted after the fact), open-side, quad-door, and open-top units.

Need it delivered? We run our own transports out of container depots throughout the southeast US, with primary inventory in Miami, Jacksonville, and Savannah. Delivery cost is calculated from the closest depot to your jobsite, not from our main office, which usually saves customers a meaningful chunk. We never charge extra for placement.

Serving Florida and Georgia

We work across the state of Florida and into Georgia. We’re not a national broker, farming leads out to whoever’s closest. When you call us, you’re talking to the same team that owns the truck, surveys the container, and answers the phone three weeks from now when you have a question.

That focus is on purpose. It’s how we keep service tight, delivery windows reliable, and quality consistent. Our tagline, “Better Containers, Professional Service,” isn’t a marketing line we paid someone to write. It’s the whole reason Michael started the company.

Ready to find the right container?

If you’ve already got a project in mind, the fastest way to a written quote is the Request a Quote form. 

New to containers and not sure what you need? Our Shipping Containers 101 page walks through the grades, sizes, and common use cases. And if you’re worried about getting burned by an out-of-state seller, our Avoid Container Scams guide is worth ten minutes of your time before you hand over a deposit anywhere.

Give us a call at 800-995-2417 when you’re ready to talk specifics.