For a shipping container going to or from Adelaide, FlowState Logistics arranges the rail, the trucks and the paperwork. The job is run by one coordinator in Brisbane, using carriers and a container depot in Adelaide.
Adelaide container transport prices
From Adelaide, inc GST, your own container
| To | 20ft empty or up to 5 t | 20ft 5 to 10 t | 40ft empty or up to 10 t |
| Brisbane | from $3,860 | from $4,270 | from $5,880 |
| Sydney | from $3,400 | from $3,550 | from $4,190 |
| Melbourne | from $2,480 | from $2,580 | from $2,960 |
| Perth | from $5,090 | from $5,450 | from $6,480 |
| Mackay | from $5,550 | from $5,850 | from $8,930 |
| Townsville | from $6,130 | from $6,450 | from $9,590 |
| Cairns | from $6,830 | from $7,170 | from $11,660 |
To Adelaide, inc GST, your own container
| From | 20ft empty or up to 5 t | 20ft 5 to 10 t | 40ft empty or up to 10 t |
| Brisbane | from $3,350 | from $3,710 | from $4,700 |
| Sydney | from $3,700 | from $3,880 | from $4,800 |
| Melbourne | from $2,780 | from $2,920 | from $3,700 |
| Perth | from $4,060 | from $4,060 | from $5,300 |
For Mackay, Townsville or Cairns to Adelaide, the calculator will price your suburbs.
The prices shown are indicative, inc GST, for your own container, written from our live calculator on 2 October 2026. "From" is the lowest price across our sample suburbs in each city. Your own price depends on your two addresses, the weight and the access, and the calculator shows the range for your suburbs.
Moves within Adelaide are priced by hand. Send us both suburbs through the quote form and a price comes back within one business day.
These tables are for the five cities and North Queensland only. Try the calculator for anywhere else, and anything it cannot price we price by hand within one business day.
How Adelaide jobs travel
Adelaide's interstate containers move by rail via the Regency Park terminal. A local truck brings the container in from your site, and another delivers it from the terminal in the destination city. Rail will only take a container with a current CSC plate, so we check yours from a photo first. If the plate is missing or out of date, a survey is needed, at extra cost, and we can arrange it. More on rail and plates.
Hire and sales in Adelaide
There is a hire depot in Adelaide, and hire runs for a minimum of a month and then month to month. Buying a container in Adelaide is by request. Read about container hire, or see containers for sale.
Next step
For an interstate lane, use the calculator: it shows an estimate for your own suburbs, and we confirm it by email within one business day. Our interstate container transport page explains what the price includes. If you already own the container, start with transport your own shipping container.
Adelaide lanes, priced by rail
On the interstate lanes we publish, the price for a 20ft or 40ft shows on the spot. Local Adelaide moves are priced by hand within one business day.