Various shipping containers in Grand Theft Auto V.
A shipping container (or simply container) is a large metal crate designed to store items and be transported via freight. Shipping containers have appeared in some form throughout the Grand Theft Auto series.
3D Universe[]
Grand Theft Auto III[]
Containers are found around port areas and warehouses in Liberty City. They appear either without markings or as East/West Shipping Co. U.S.A.-branded containers, and are found in blue, yellow and red colors.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City[]
Containers are found around port areas and freight depots in Vice City. They appear either without markings or as East/West Shipping Co. U.S.A.-branded containers, and are found in blue, yellow and red colors.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas[]
Shipping containers inside the Da Nang Boys Freighter in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Containers are found scattered around San Andreas. The Da Nang Boys Freighter is moored in San Fierro and has 32 rows of containers on its upper deck. Containers with an unique rusty appearance are found in several areas of Ocean Docks and Los Santos International Airport. Shipping company-branded containers are absent in the game.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories[]
Containers are found around port areas and warehouses in Liberty City and Vice City, found in blue, yellow and red colors. Shipping company-branded containers are absent in both titles.
HD Universe[]
Grand Theft Auto IV and Episodes from Liberty City[]
Shipping containers appear scattered across the map as static and non-interactive props. Large stacks of shipping containers are found in groups around port areas and warehouses in Liberty City and the State of Alderney, appearing in a variety of colors, including red, yellow, white and blue.
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars[]
Shipping containers appear in the same form as in Grand Theft Auto IV, found in the same areas of Liberty City. Containers are also seen on barges and partially visible inside cargo hatches of several ships.
Grand Theft Auto V and Online[]
Shipping containers on the Daisy Lee freighter in Grand Theft Auto V.
Shipping containers appear scattered across the map as static and non-interactive props. Large stacks of shipping containers are found in groups around the Port of Los Santos, particularly at Jetsam Terminal in Terminal, and Pier 400 in Elysian Island. Containers generally appear in 20 foot and 40 foot sizes and appear in a variety of colors, including red, orange, grey, blue, green and yellow. Containers are also found on most ships, including the SS Bulker, Ocean Motion and Daisy Lee.
Some smaller shipping containers (such as the blue 20 foot ThriftEX and red 10 foot Merryweather Security containers) are not purely static and can be pushed around or lifted. The Cargobob (and any of its variants), as well as the DH-7 Iron Mule in GTA Online, is capable of using its hook to connect to and lift shipping containers. The Dock Handler serves as a specialised reach stacker capable of coupling up to containers and moving them around. Like other transportable items, the shipping container will despawn once it is taken over 2,000 meters away from its original spawn location[ref?ref?This fact is likely to be disputed and needs a source for confirmation.].
Some 20 foot and 40 foot containers appear without doors at one or both ends, allowing the player to enter or drive through them. The smaller 10 foot containers can also be damaged enough that the doors break open.
Some containers are found mounted to the back of trailers and railroad well cars, both static and towable. The majority of containers on the back of trailers and railroad cars cannot be removed, however, some of the aforementioned smaller containers are found on the back of static flatbed trailers and can be lifted or pushed off. A grey, unmarked container is found permanently attached to the back of the towable container trailer. The Dock Trailer is designed to spawn with or without an orange container, however, in-game it only spawns with it attached.
Grand Theft Auto Online[]
Cutting open a shipping container in a railroad well car during Off the Rails in GTA Online.
The player is sometimes required to open containers during certain missions in GTA Online. In First Dose 6 - Off the Rails, the player cuts their way inside shipping containers carried by well cars after the train is derailed. Inside some of the containers are chemicals the player is required to steal.
Grand Theft Auto VI[]
PortViceCity as seen in the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI. The BTN Delmar is seen being loaded and unloaded with shipping containers.
A large number of shipping containers are seen on the BTN Delmar docked at PortViceCity. Lando-Corp-branded container cranes are seen loading and unloading containers from the ship.
Jason can be seen interacting with a shipping container at PortViceCity in a single clip from the September 2022 leaks. In the clip, he is seen using a Cut-Off Tool to break open the doors of a container, inside of which is a Sanchez. The developer is then seen placing and moving items within the container, including piles of cash, which Jason then collects and stores in his Loot Bag.[1]
Lucia is seen jumping onto the back of a moving flatbed trailer with a shipping container in the game's second trailer. The container's doors are open, revealing a Tempesta inside it.
Container Brands[]
Grand Theft Auto III[]
- East/West Shipping Co. U.S.A.
- Pia Costa [CUT][CUT]Remains such as data lines or mentions can be found in game files, but is not present or functional.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City[]
- East/West Shipping Co. U.S.A.
- Pia Costa [CUT][CUT]Remains such as data lines or mentions can be found in game files, but is not present or functional.
Grand Theft Auto IV and Episodes from Liberty City[]
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars[]
- Kakagawa
- ThriftEX
- Xero
Grand Theft Auto V and Online[]
- Alpha Mail (GTA Online only)
- Bilgeco
- D-Rail
- GoPostal
- Jetsam
- Krapea
- Lando
- Lando-Corp
- Merryweather Security
- Post OP
- ThriftEX
- Union Flyer
Grand Theft Auto VI[]
Vehicles[]
A number of vehicles are seen carrying containers, both interactive and non-interactively.
Grand Theft Auto 2[]
A Container trailer in Grand Theft Auto 2.
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Grand Theft Auto III[]
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas[]
Grand Theft Auto IV[]
Grand Theft Auto V and Online[]
A Dock Trailer with a shipping container attached in Grand Theft Auto V and Online. (Rear quarter view)
- Daisy Lee
- Dock Handler
- Dock Trailer
- Freight Train (D-Rail well car)
- Freight Train (Lando well car)
- Ocean Motion
- SS Bulker
- Trailer (container)
Grand Theft Auto Online[]
- Cargobob (Jetsam)
- Freight Train (The E.C.U Job well car)
- Freight Train (The Titan Job well car)
- La'oub Princess
- Trailer (Gunrunning)
Grand Theft Auto VI[]
Gallery[]
Shipping containers at the Vice City International Airport Freight and Cargo Terminal.
Blank shipping containers in front of the Easter Basin Freighter.
Blank shipping containers on the Da Nang Boys Freighter.
Unique mission-only shipping containers in Customs Fast Track, intended to be lifted by a crane.
Unique mission-only shipping container in The Da Nang Thang.
Blank shipping containers found at Francis International Airport.
Blank shipping containers at the Broker Navy Yard.
Shipping containers to be lifted by a crane during the mission Parking Pickle.
Xero Gas shipping containers after the Xero Gas Warehouse explosion during the mission The Wages of Hsin.
Blank shipping containers on the Ocean Motion.
A shipping container opened by the explosion from an RPG.
A Cargobob carrying a 20 foot shipping container.
A Dock Handler carrying a 20 foot shipping container.
The BTN Delmar loaded with containers. Cranes can also be loading and unloading the ship.
An offshore supply ship loaded with containers.
Branded containers[]
Prominent Appearances in Gameplay[]
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas[]
- The Da Nang Thang – The Da Nang Boys has imprisoned four people inside a container in the Da Nang Boys Freighter, Carl must free the prisoners by destroying the container's padlock before killing The Snakehead.
- Customs Fast Track – Carl and Cesar go to the docks at Easter Basin to steal a car for the Wang Cars, which is stored in one of the containers on the docked ship. All three containers on the ship must be picked up by a crane to obtain the car.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories[]
- High Wire - Victor must recover two containers that contain the Mendez Cartel's cocaine from the VCPD. The first container is placed inside the impound lot at Viceport. After the first container is taken, the second container is being moved out to the police station in Little Havana by a Flatbed.
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars[]
- Parking Pickle – Huang Lee recovers Melanie Mallard's Burrito van seized by the Liberty City Port Authority from a container.
- The Wages of Hsin – Several Xero Gas containers are destroyed by Huang Lee during the Xero Gas Warehouse explosion.
Grand Theft Auto V[]
- Scouting the Port – Floyd helps Trevor move containers around Pier 400 using the Dock Handler and later the RTGC.
- Derailed – Trevor and Michael intercept a Merryweather train to steal a precious cargo from one of its container, which turns out to be an ancient artifact, which will eventually be given to Martin Madrazo so he will allow Trevor and Michael to return to Los Santos.
- Monkey Business – Michael places the stolen chemical weapon from the Humane Labs and Research inside a refrigerated container, which is eventually picked up by Trevor inside a Cargobob.
Grand Theft Auto Online[]
- Airfreight – The player must take back shipping containers utilized by Merryweather Security, using a Jetsam Cargobob to steal them from various locations around the map.
- First Dose 6 - Off the Rails – The player cuts open shipping containers hauled by a Freight Train in order to retrieve chemicals from Merryweather Security.
See Also[]
- Category:Shipping companies – List of shipping companies in the Grand Theft Auto series.
References[]
- ↑ Timestamp(15/09/2025)00:00:00
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