Air cargo
Next-flight-out, consolidated, and charter. AOG, temperature-controlled, and escorted options.
1–5 days · 180 countries
Trusted by auction houses, jewelers, and private clients
Premium logistics · Est. 1998
Insured, escorted, and tracked end-to-end. From vault to vault in 180+ countries, for jewelry, watches, art, and the goods that cannot be replaced.
Trusted by auction houses, jewelers, and private clients
Certified & compliant
What we move
Book any leg in isolation or hand us the full journey, from origin vault to insured last-mile, customs and warehousing included.
Next-flight-out, consolidated, and charter. AOG, temperature-controlled, and escorted options.
1–5 days · 180 countries
FCL, LCL, and buyer's consolidation. Weekly sailings on 14 major trade lanes.
18–42 days · 42k TEU/yr
Long-haul FTL, LTL, and armored courier. GPS-tracked on every mile.
2–9 days · 48 states
All-risk coverage, armed-courier options, and sealed chain of custody on every handover.
Up to $50M per shipment
Class-3 vaults, bonded storage, pick-and-pack, live inventory API.
48k sq ft · 6 vaults
Licensed brokers, HS classification, duty drawback, trusted-trader fast lanes.
99.1% first-pass
Built for high-value cargo
Jewelry, watches, fine art, and rare collectibles move under a different rulebook. Every Meridian shipment carries a named chain of custody, dual-signature handover, and all-risk insurance to value.
Inside the vault
Our New York and Los Angeles hubs run 24/6 with Class-3 vaulting, dual-biometric access, and a REST inventory feed your ERP can poll every 90 seconds. Every scan is public; every custody transfer is witnessed.
Network
From the CEO
“A tracking number is a promise. We built this company so that promise is visible to the shipper, the broker, and the person waiting at the door.”
We started in 1998 with two bonded couriers running between Manhattan and Zurich. Today we move insured cargo across four continents, but the operating rule has not changed: every handover is scanned, every scan is public, and every exception is owned by a named person.
Client voices
Client names, imagery, and shipment summaries are shared with written permission. Declared values, counterparties, and lane data are never disclosed.
Portraits shown are illustrative and do not depict the named individuals.
We moved a $4.2M private jewelry collection, 87 pieces including a diamond suite, from a Geneva vault to our Manhattan floor in 29 hours. Two signatures at every handover. Zero discrepancies.
We moved 40 crates of archival film from LA to London without a single demurrage day. The tracking page is what sold our board, they could see every scan.
One Patek Philippe. One insured courier. Fourteen hours from Geneva to my apartment in Miami. I never once had to ask where it was.
Testimonials reflect real engagements with Meridian. Client identities and imagery appear with permission; declared values, counterparties, and specific lane data are never disclosed.
From the desk
Choosing air over ocean is not a cost decision, it is a working-capital and insurance decision. Here is the framework we use on every premium lane quote, and the three cases where the ‘obvious’ answer is wrong.
FOB, CIF, DAP, DDP, the four acronyms that decide who pays for what when cargo crosses a border. A practical, no-legalese breakdown with the one mistake that costs US importers the most.
Ninety percent of ‘stuck in customs’ cases at US ports fall into five categories. Here they are, in the order we see them, with the exact fix for each and the checklist we give every new importer.
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Track an existing shipment, or tell us the lane and we will quote it within one business day.
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FAQ
Yes. We are a licensed broker in the US, UK, EU, and UAE, and we work with vetted partners on every other lane.
One tracking number follows the cargo across air, ocean, rail, and road. The public page updates on every scan.
From a single 20 kg air parcel to a 40-container ocean program. There is no minimum on the air side.
Lane quotes are returned within one business day. Complex projects (project cargo, dangerous goods) take up to three.
Yes, every shipment is insured to declared value up to $50M, with all-risk coverage and a 4-day average claim settlement.