Crown Fine Art Transport and Shipping Service
Whether it’s a single piece of artwork, a traveling exhibition, a contemporary sculpture, or a timeless masterpiece, our art shipping services ensure your pieces are packed, crated, and transported securely, on time, and in perfect condition. Our passion for what we do is matched by our commitment to complete discretion, rigorously protecting your privacy.
We work with trusted partners to offer you the most suitable and economical transportation solution.
Road freight
Crown Fine Art uses its own trucks to transport artworks to destinations by road, providing high-standard fine art shipping services. Our vehicles are equipped with air suspension, climate control, remote track-and-trace, and built-in alarm systems as standard. They also feature temperature and relative humidity controls, ensuring optimal conditions even in the most extreme weather.
As part of our commitment to reducing our carbon footprint, we are increasingly selecting vehicles for their environmental performance as well as safety.
Air freight
For air transportation, our supervisors will oversee palletisation and loading, accompanying artworks at every stage in the transfer from truck, through customs, to aircraft loading and back.
Where artworks are carried by hand, we assist your couriers throughout the transportation stage, including through customs and onto the aircraft, ensuring that artworks are always handled safely.
Sea freight
For monumental works and large-scale collections best transported by ship, we use specifically designed temperature-controlled containers – ensuring artwork is safe and secure.
Dedicated shipments
Crown Fine Art’s dedicated shipments apply additional security and safety to fine art logistics. We give our clients greater control of the timing and ensure fewer handling of shipments. Even at this level of service it is possible, especially within Crown’s network, to economise with more efficient use of capacity.
Packing and crating
Our in-house specialists produce crates for any artwork and any journey.
We produce crates to exacts specifications, recognising that there are many competing crate designs. You can be confident in the security and safety of all our packing materials.
Our crates are made from fumigated wood and provide complete protective cushioning from shock or vibration. Interiors are lined to prevent friction damage and sealed to provide protection against a range of climate changes.
Customs and legal procedures
For international shipments, Crown Fine Art offers a complete service, taking care of any complications posed by customs procedures, for both temporary import and export shipments. We will arrange all of the necessary paperwork and supervise all inspections.