Meridian reception desk, New York headquarters

Company

A freight house built for cargo that cannot be replaced.

Twenty-eight years of moving jewelry, watches, fine art, and rare instruments across four continents, one insured, dual-signature handover at a time.

Our story

Founded in New York, 1998.

Meridian started as two bonded couriers moving estate jewelry between Manhattan and Zurich for a single auction house. The problem we kept hearing was the same: “a tracking number that updates twice, once when it leaves, once when it arrives, is not tracking, it is a guess.”

So we built the tracking layer first. A public page that updates the moment a parcel is scanned. A map pin that shows exactly where it is right now. A named custodian for every handover. Everything else, the air charters, the vaults, the customs desks, grew around that single rule.

Today Meridian moves $4.2B in insured cargo annually across 180 countries, with vaults in New York, Los Angeles, London, and Zurich.

Meridian reception, New York headquarters

Principles

What we hold ourselves to.

Radical visibility

Every scan is public. If a parcel moves, the tracking page changes within seconds. No private dashboards, no delayed feeds.

Named custody

Every handover is signed off by two people, photographed, and time-stamped. Custody is a chain, not a handwave.

Honest ETAs

Our estimates are calibrated against real historical runs on each lane, not marketing copy. When we miss, we say so and pay the difference.

Leadership

The team behind the tracking.

James Sterling
James Sterling
Founder & CEO

Founded Meridian in 1998 after a decade running bonded courier routes between Manhattan and Zurich.

Alexandra Norton
Alexandra Norton
Head of Air Cargo

Former airline cargo operations lead. Runs Meridian's next-flight-out and charter desks.

Michael Torres
Michael Torres
Head of Fleet & Vaults

Oversees the armored land fleet and the four Class-3 vaults across the US and Europe.

Where we operate

Six hubs. Four continents.

New York
United States
200 Park Avenue, NY 10166
Los Angeles
United States
515 S Flower St, CA 90071
Chicago
United States
233 S Wacker Dr, IL 60606
London
United Kingdom
30 St Mary Axe, EC3A 8BF
Zurich
Switzerland
Bahnhofstrasse 21, 8001
Dubai
UAE
DIFC Gate Village 4