When transporting your collection from one location to another, you expect fine art transportation service from your art logistics partner to deliver each piece securely and efficiently.
It takes a dedicated team, with extensive experience and expert knowledge to choose the proper packaging for each piece. If you’re based in Portland and require art transportation services for your assets, consider using a premier fine art transportation company.
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Vigilant Packaging for Art Transportation Service
At Art Work Fine Art Services, our team members are artists themselves, with deep understanding of handling of fine art, making them experts at packaging artwork of different sizes and in different mediums, such as paintings, sculptures, or installations.
Heavy or large artwork often requires advanced packaging that accounts for the piece’s unique weight distribution. Delicate worksneede custom packaging and crating to protect it through loading, transportation, and delivery. Small or fragile pieces require cushioning and a toughexterior to keep the artwork from movingduring transit. Custom crating is required to nest sculptures and moving pieces.
Bespoke packaging is the only option to keep valuable artwork safe during transport. The wet, forest-dense, mountainous terrain on the way to and from Portland can offer unique challenges and obstacles. Choosing a transportation partner with the right fine art transportation service experience can mean the difference in whether your collection arrives intact.
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Art Transportation Service to and from Portland
Shuttle Service to Portland
Once your artwork is properly packaged, it can be carefully loaded and transported. Art Work Fine Art Services offers a shuttle service that allows collectors to transport works of art along the entire West Coast, from the Pacific Northwest to Los Angeles, California.
We have long-standing partnerships with collection management companies that can store collections and shuttle them to Portland when it is convenient. This provides cost-effective art transportation service and streamlines the logistics for art professionals and collectors alike.
Exclusive Delivery Services
Art collectors and curators can bolster protection with Art Work Fine Art Services’ Exclusive Delivery service. We will dedicate a truck to a single client’s project, so your collection travels alone from origin to destination. With no stops and no other pieces being loaded or unloaded, your artwork will remain secure for the duration of the trip.
With Exclusive Delivery, the project is handled by our team alone – from collection, to loading, to delivery. Working with a professional team of art handlers minimizes the risk of transferring cargo between carriers.
Contact us for an estimate on fine art transportation services.
Specialized Knowledge From Our Experts
For nearly 30 years, Art Work Fine Art Services has served as the trusted logistics partner to some of America’s most highly-regarded museums, galleries, collectors, and artists. We specialize in custom solutions for domestic and international shipping, warehousing, and preservation of artwork.
Our team is comprised of passionate experts in many mediums, including design, painting, printmaking, carpentry, photography, and sculpture. Art Work FAS offers services in Portland and Seattle, in addition to California’s Bay Area and Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York City, and across the Rocky Mountains.