Who buys freight containers in the public sector.
98 public bodies issued 1,263 notices for goods in this family across 26 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 3.1bn of it in 2024. Here are the counts, country by country. The names are the book.
The counts are free. The list is withheld.
Ranked by notices in the family. A US count is federal contract actions, delivery orders included, so it is not comparable with a European notice count: compare buyers within a country, and use the import bill to compare countries.
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United StatesUSAspending, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices466Public buyers26Imports 2024USD 835m
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AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices460Public buyers12Imports 2024USD 139m
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CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices237Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 175m
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SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices18Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 55m
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PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices16Public buyers9Imports 2024USD 72m
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AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices12Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 71m
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PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices9Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 6m
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GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices8Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 367m
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EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices5Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 4m
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RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 23m
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CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 7m
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FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 339m
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NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 378m
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BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 5m
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Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 23m
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GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 11m
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LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 5m
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SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 6m
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SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 127m
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BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 177m
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DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 50m
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HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 30m
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ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 63m
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LuxembourgTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 22m
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NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 104m
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SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 14m
The full Buyer Book names the ten most frequent public buyers in every country above, with one notice title each as the buyer published it, the three largest source countries of the import bill, and the record and window behind every count. It is a document, bought by email. No award value appears in it, and no supplier: companies appear only as public buyers.
Two public records, joined.
The join from a buyer's procurement code to a customs heading runs through crosswalks BuzzBaboon authored, because no official one exists, so it is approximate: a count is a product family, never a claim that a buyer bought one exact line.
A notice counts only when the buyer classified the purchase as goods and its code matches a specific crosswalk key, never a broad division. Identical rows count once; US prime-vendor ledger rows are left out. The import bill is CEPII BACI for 2024, summed over the heading's six-digit lines: what crossed the border, public and private buyers together.
A list of where to look.
Which company won any notice, what any award was worth, or whether a buyer will buy again. The records carry framework ceilings and typing errors, so values are never shown. Award records are those of 33 countries that publish one openly with at least 500 notices a year; a country missing here publishes none this record can read. Nothing on this page is a forecast or a promise.
Sources: TED, USAspending, open.canada.ca, AusTender, Contracts Finder, CEPII BACI. Edition of 3 November 2026.
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