Art & Antiques
Protection for Valuables
Antique Crating and Shipping
Miami is home to hundreds of internationally recognized galleries, antique collections, and antique collectors. Within the antique industry, there are a multitude of sales, trades, auctions, and shows every year, which means the safe transport of these unique, invaluable items is necessary.
Craters & Freighters Miami has been serving the antique industry for years, and we appreciate the nature of this business. Our crating and packaging professionals are well-versed and highly skilled at designing packing plans that ensure protection, whether through transit or in storage.
We work with antiques that are delicate, fragile, oversized, and often one-of-a-kind or last-of-its-kind, and we know how to keep them secure and maintain their integrity. From pickup to delivery, we will effectively and seamlessly pack and ship your valuables using firsthand experience, our comprehensive solutions, and keen shipping insights.
If you’re looking for the best antique crating company in Miami, you’ve found us. Our designers are dedicated to your job, and our commitment is only outmatched by our customer service. No matter how challenging your antique crating needs are, we’ll get it done.
Contact us to learn how we can help you get your antiques where they need to be safely.
Services Tailored to Your Antique’s Specific Needs
The proper crating and packaging of antiques is never a one-size-fits-all. It takes seasoned professionals to determine the best materials, methods, and supports. Our crating experts assess each item that comes our way to provide the ultimate solutions in antique protection.
We consider risk, storage, size, weight, fragility, destination, mode of transport, and more in order to engineer the most responsible protection scheme. Your item’s security is our purpose and the structural support we design takes a proactive approach to any challenges it may face in the shipping stream. We treat your valuables as if they were our own so that you can feel confident in our management of your item, no matter its age, shape, or value.
Commercial Antique Customers
Craters & Freighters is globally known for our expertise in handling industrial and fragile pieces. From centuries-old equipment to mid-century artwork to medieval finds, we are the go-to for precise, detail-oriented custom containers. We help museums, galleries, and antique dealers around the world get their items moved and retrieved damage-free.
Some customers we serve include:
- Interior designers
- Antique shop owners
- Antique collectors
- Auctioneers
- Furniture store owners
- Custom furniture makers and designers
- And, more
Our crating and packing specialists are trusted because we’re knowledgeable in handling unique, original works and sensitive antiques. We understand the nature of this business, and we know how to satisfy your crating needs successfully.
Antique Crating and Shipping Services in Miami
When in need of antique crating, packaging, and shipping in Miami, Craters & Freighters has all the solutions you’re looking for. Our team and our comprehensive services can do as much or little as you’d like. Just want us to design a container? No problem. Want us to package and ship your item. Fine with us. We can do it all.
Let us be accountable for the safe handling of your assets and take the burden off yourself. When managing several antique items of differing value, sizes, and sensitivity, our professionals know all the steps, we’re efficient and responsible.
Whether your antiques are traveling domestically or internationally, we have you covered by air, land, or sea. Over our decades in service, we’ve nurtured a global network that allows us to keep your items close to us even when far away. We’re trusted with the most challenging items because of our expertise and dedication. We’d like to prove it to you.
Some of our crating and shipping solutions include:
- Local pickup and delivery
- Custom packing and cushioning
- Wood crates and corrugated containers
- Reusable trade show crates
- Museum crating
- Auction packaging, crating, shipping
On-Site Packaging and Crating
We’ve been fortunate to work within the art and antique industry for years, and with that has come much experience. With these items, sensitivity and proper management are crucial, especially when handling large amounts of uniquely shaped and sized items.
If you don’t have the necessary equipment or materials to safely get your assets to our facility, we can come to yours. Our crating team has everything needed to design and create a custom container and packaging scheme on-site at your location.
Residential Fine Art and Antique Crating and Shipping
If you’re in need of residential antique crating and shipping, we’re happy to help with that, too. Whether one-piece or twenty, our services and our professionals are waiting to protect your valuables and get them wherever they need to be.