20ft, inner harbour
Fremantle, North Coogee, Bibra Lake, Cockburn. The short run off the wharf.
from $340 per container
Container cartage · Fremantle to your door
Your box off the wharf and on your slab — Fremantle to Kwinana.
Side-loaders and skel trailers out of Hazelmere — same day where the slot allows.
Since 2011 · 14 trucks · 46 containers a day Mon–Fri 5am–5pm, Sat by arrangement
- We book the slot on our own account and send you the delivery window in writing, before a truck moves.
- Wharf, port, slot, empty-park and detention charges go through at cost — on the shipping line’s own paperwork, never marked up, and never quoted here as a number we cannot stand behind.
- Our own side-loaders and a Hazelmere yard, so a site that is not ready is a storage line, not a wasted delivery.
What a run costs, before you ring
Our cartage, ex GST, wharf to door. Wharf, port, slot-booking, empty-park and detention charges are separate and passed through at cost — there is no figure for them anywhere on this page, because they move.
40ft, wharf to door
A 40 or a 40 high cube on the skel, anywhere in the inner harbour zone.
from $390 per container
Outer metro delivery
Wangara, Malaga, Kwinana, Byford — a 20ft to the edge of the metro.
from $560 per container
Peel and Mandurah
Mandurah and Waroona. Booked as a day run so the slot and the drive line up.
from $980 per container
Side-loader unload
We lift it off ourselves and leave. No forklift, no crane, no yard crew waiting.
$180 on top of cartage
Drop trailer overnight
Trailer stays on your hardstand, you unload in your own time, we collect next morning.
$120 on top of cartage
Waiting time
The first hour on a live unload is in the price. After that it is a rate, quoted separately.
$95 an hour, after the first
Yard storage, Hazelmere
Site not ready? The box waits with us instead of on the truck. Empty returns booked from here.
from $9 a day
Price a run
Box, zone, unload. That is the whole price.
Our cartage only, ex GST. Every figure below is our own rate — nothing on this page is a wharf, port or shipping-line charge.
A 40ft on the skel — rear-loaded, doors to the back.
$670
40 ft · Zone 2 metroSide-loader unload · ex GST
- Cartage, Fremantle to zone 2 $490
- Side-loader unload $180
No change for the high cube. A standard 40 ft on this same run is $670 as well.
The same box and unload, zone by zone
- Z1$570
- Z2$670
- Z3$820
- Z4$1,300
Waiting time is a rate, not part of this estimate: $95 an hour after the first hour on a live unload. We tell you the clock start on the day.
Change the job
Container
A high cube is the same price as a 40. It changes what fits under — your roller door, your awning, the branch over the driveway — not what you pay. We checked it against all 36 combinations on this estimate: not one of them moves.
Delivery zone
How it comes off
This estimate covers our cartage. Wharf and port charges, the slot booking, the empty-park fee and any shipping-line detention are billed to you at cost on the actual invoice line — we do not publish a figure for any of them here, because they move and we will not print a number we cannot stand behind.
Four things happen, in this order
Most first-time importers ring us because nobody has told them what actually happens between the ship and the slab. This is it.
Send the number
Container number and the release from your forwarder. We check the box is available and tell you the same day if it is not.
We book the slot
Booked on our account at the wharf. You get the delivery window in writing before a truck moves, not a phone call on the morning.
It lands where you want it
Live off the back with your forklift, lifted off by side-loader, or the trailer stays overnight and you unload in your own time.
The empty goes back
We book the empty return before the box lands, so it is not sitting at your place while somebody works out where it goes.
Why importers move their cartage to us
Fourteen trucks
A missed slot is a re-book, not a lost day. We are not sub-contracting your box to whoever answers the phone.
We price cartage, not the wharf
Wharf, port, slot, empty-park and detention charges reach you as the actual invoice line, at cost. No handling margin buried in a line item called “port fees”.
Our own side-loaders
If your site has firm level ground and clear overhead, you do not need a forklift, a crane or a yard crew standing around waiting for us.
A yard at Hazelmere
Site not ready? The box waits with us from $9 a day. Shipping-line detention still runs — that is between you and the line, and we tell you the date it starts.
What the people who book us say
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“Three 40s a week off Fremantle and the only time I hear from Sidelift is when they send the window. First mob who put the slot in writing instead of ringing me at six in the morning.”
“I book cartage for clients who have never seen a container in their lives. Sidelift walks them through the unload before the box moves, so nothing turns up at a site that cannot take it.”
“We cannot get a side-loader across our yard, so they drop the trailer at four and collect it next morning. It costs us $120 and it saves us half a day of casuals standing around.”
Four zones, priced off the wharf
Zones are distance bands out from Fremantle, not council boundaries. If your suburb is not on the map, ring us — it is almost certainly in one of these four.
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from $340
Zone 1 · Inner harbour
Fremantle, North Coogee, Bibra Lake, Cockburn
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from $430
Zone 2 · Metro
Osborne Park, Welshpool, Canning Vale, Hazelmere
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from $560
Zone 3 · Outer metro
Wangara, Malaga, Kwinana, Byford
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from $980
Zone 4 · Peel
Mandurah, Waroona
- Those are 20ft prices, because that is the honest floor. A 40ft or a 40ft high cube on the same run is $390, $490, $640 and $1,120. Not on the list? Ring us with the suburb and we will tell you the zone in a sentence.
What we get asked
What do you need from me to book a run?
Four things: the container number, the release or delivery order from your shipping line or forwarder, the delivery address and a site contact, and how it is coming off — live with your forklift, on our side-loader, or dropped overnight. If you only have the number so far, send that and we will chase the rest.
What if my site cannot take a side-loader?
A side-loader needs firm level ground beside the truck and nothing overhead. If your yard is soft, tight or under a canopy, we do it live — you unload off the back with a forklift while the driver waits — or we drop the trailer overnight for $120 and you take your time. We ask about this before the box moves, not on the day.
Who books the wharf slot?
We do, on our own account. The slot-booking charge, and any wharf or port charge that comes with it, is passed through to you at cost on the actual invoice line. We do not publish a figure for it on this page: those charges are set by the terminal, not by us, and they change. Ask and we will tell you what it is on the day you book.
How long can I keep the box?
That is set by the free time your shipping line allows on that container, and it varies by line and by contract. Past it the line charges detention. We book the empty return before the box lands so the clock is not running while somebody works out where the empty goes, and we will tell you the date the free time ends.
What is detention, and who pays it?
Detention is what the shipping line charges the importer for holding their container past the agreed free time. It is the line’s charge, not ours. If it lands on our invoice because we handled the return, it goes through at cost with the line’s own paperwork attached — never marked up, and never as an unexplained line item.
Do you do empty returns, and can you store the box?
Yes to both. An empty return is priced as a run in the same four zones. If your site is not ready, the box comes to our Hazelmere yard from $9 a day instead of sitting on a truck. Line detention keeps running while it is with us — that is between you and the line, and we say so before you agree to it.
Send us the box
Business hours, one of us picks it up inside the hour and comes back with the price and the slot. If it is urgent, ring — the phone is faster than any form.
Got it — that is enough to price it.
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