Artfira Shipping is a boutique fine-art logistics team based in the New York Tri-State area. We handle packing, crating, documentation, and air freight so your pieces arrive in the condition you expect.
We collect in the Tri-State region, use archival, acid-free materials where it matters, build custom crates when needed, and move shipments by air worldwide at very competitive rates.
For international moves, we coordinate customs clearance and delivery to the door in cities including London, Edinburgh, Tel Aviv, Paris, Geneva, Kyiv, and beyond, including for paintings, sculpture, porcelain, design objects, furniture, carpets, and more.
We will custom clear and hand deliver your US bound international shipment of fine art in Tri-State New York area.
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20+ years working with fine art, artists, and galleries. We structure EU-bound moves for VAT-efficient importation where the route allows, and we handle ATA Carnet workflows for museum and gallery exhibitions.
We’ve shipped work for exhibitions at institutions including Centre Pompidou and the Paris Museum of Modern Art. The same rigor applies to your shipment.
Regular lanes across Western, Central, and Eastern Europe, Switzerland, France, the UK, Ukraine, Romania, Poland, and more. Through our freight partner Dnipro LLC, we are a licensed, TSA-certified, known shipper.
Need breathing room? Ask about short-term storage (up to six months) on flexible terms.
What we handle
End-to-end fine art logistics: export packing and crating, air and ocean freight, consolidation, inland trucking, hub and break-bulk coordination, and worldwide forwarding, with paperwork and carriers matched to the value of the work, not a generic commodity tariff.
Speed and compliance when it counts: airport-to-airport and door-level service, customs clearance, TSA-certified handling as a known shipper, IATA-aligned processes, and ATA Carnet support for temporary exports.
When the piece needs the last mile treated like the first, we offer white-glove delivery
priced fairly for specialist work, not hidden retail margins.
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What generic carriers can’t see: your frame isn’t a box of shoes.
Our response
Parcel networks optimize for volume, not condition. We quote on how the work is packed, routed, and insured, and we’ve been moving art internationally long enough to know where the hidden costs and breakage risks hide. Contact Artfira Shippingand we may be able to provide a quote that is better than what major delivery services companies charge.
Share a few details such as auction, route, and what you are moving. We typically reply within one business day with a quote.