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Container stackers move, lift and stack shipping containers in ports, container yards, freight depots and on large project sites that receive materials in boxes. Today 2 container stackers are listed for hire on EquipmentsFinder, both from one supplier based in Dubai and both filed as reach stackers; one is a Terex machine. The category is small, so a posted request is often the quicker route, and it reaches every supplier on the platform rather than the two listings alone.
The two current listings show the machine, its year and the supplier's phone and WhatsApp number, so a direct call settles availability quickly. For a different type or capacity, post a request stating whether the containers are empty or laden, the stacking height, the duration and the site. The request appears on the inquiry board, where container-handling suppliers who have not yet listed a machine can respond.
There is no charge to the renter. The same steps apply across the equipment rental hub.
An empty container handler is a tall-mast forklift with a top-lift spreader, built to stack empty boxes several high in a depot. Its capacity is modest because an empty container weighs only a few tonnes, which makes it cheaper to hire and lighter on the yard surface. None are listed as a separate type today.
Laden handlers lift full containers, so they carry a far higher rated capacity and a heavier counterweight, and they stack fewer high. They are the machine for a project laydown area that receives full boxes and must move them to the point of use. These too are sourced by request at present.
Reach stackers carry the spreader on a telescopic boom instead of a mast, so they can lift a container over a row and place it in the second or third line, which makes far better use of a yard than a mast machine. Both current listings are reach stackers, from 2006 and 2015 respectively, and this is the type most ports and intermodal depots in Dubai run.
Start with the heaviest box that will be handled, since a laden 40-foot container can weigh several times an empty one, and match the machine's rated capacity to that figure with a margin. Then decide how high the yard will stack: an empty handler stacks high and cheaply, a laden handler stacks low, and a reach stacker gives both height and second-row reach.
The yard surface is the other constraint. A laden reach stacker concentrates a heavy load on its front axle, so the pavement must be designed for it; a compacted sand laydown area may limit the choice to an empty handler or a lighter machine. Give the supplier the container weights, the number of moves per day and the surface, and ask whether a twist-lock spreader for both 20-foot and 40-foot boxes is fitted.
Neither of the current listings publishes a daily or monthly rate, so no range can be quoted. Each supplier sets its own rate and shows it on the listing if it chooses to; failing that, the figure comes with the quote.
Container handlers are usually hired by the month, with transport on a low-bed, an operator and routine servicing priced separately and VAT to be confirmed. Reach stackers sit at the top of the range and empty handlers at the bottom, and a long contract at a port or depot is priced differently from a short project hire, so state the duration clearly.
Both container stackers listed today are container stackers in Dubai, which is also where most container traffic in the UAE is handled, so suppliers with handlers are concentrated around the emirate's ports and free zones.
No container stackers are listed in Abu Dhabi today. A posted request reaches suppliers who can mobilise a machine from Dubai or who hold stock near the capital's ports and industrial zones.
No container stackers are listed in Sharjah today, though the emirate's container port and freight yards are close enough to Dubai for a listed machine to be delivered there.
No container stackers are listed in the Northern Emirates today. Fujairah's port traffic generates demand for container handling on the east coast, so suppliers there may respond to a posted request even without a listing.
Post a container stacker request with the container weights, stacking height, duration and site, and suppliers across the UAE respond directly. Other handling machines are on the equipment rental hub, and machines for purchase are under container stackers for sale.
Rates are set by each supplier and depend on the machine type, its rated capacity, the hire period and whether an operator and transport are included. Neither of the two current listings publishes a price, so call the supplier from the listing or post a request with the container weights, moves per day and duration to get a quote.
An empty container weighs only a few tonnes, so an empty container handler with a modest rating stacks them high and cheaply. A laden container can weigh many times more, so a laden handler or reach stacker with a much higher rated capacity is needed, and it will stack fewer high. State the heaviest box expected and the supplier will match the machine.
Each supplier decides, and the answer comes when the supplier is contacted; neither current listing states that an operator is included. Container handlers are often hired with an operator for short project work and machine-only for long port or depot contracts where the renter has its own trained drivers. Whoever drives it must hold a valid licence for the machine class.
Daily hire is unusual for container handlers because the machine travels by low-bed and takes time to deliver, so most suppliers set a minimum period or price short hires to cover transport. For a single day of unloading, ask the supplier whether a crane or a telehandler with a container spreader is a cheaper alternative.
Both machines listed today sit in Dubai, and the supplier moves them by low-bed trailer. No stackers are listed yet in Abu Dhabi, Sharjah or the Northern Emirates, so for a site in those emirates post a request and the supplier will quote the transport. The listing itself states the machine's location.
A container forklift lifts the box on a mast and can only place it in the first row in front of the machine. A reach stacker carries the spreader on a telescopic boom, so it lifts over the first row and places containers in the second or third line, stacking a yard more densely. Both current listings are reach stackers.
