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Our TSA Screening Services
Pre-flight cargo screening
Artwork screened in our controlled facility under federal certification, satisfying TSA air cargo requirements before departure.
Screening within the packing process
Works screened and then sealed into their crates by our own preparators, keeping handling in trained hands.
Domestic air freight compliance
Screening that clears works for transport aboard passenger and cargo aircraft within the United States.
International shipment support
Screening coordinated with export crating and customs documentation for works leaving the country.
Courier-accompanied air shipments
Screened works can be accompanied through airport handling by your courier, with our team coordinating custody at every step.
Ground legs included
Climate-controlled transport to and from the airport on both ends, keeping the entire chain under art-handler custody.
Why Pre-Screening Protects the Work
The screening requirement itself is not the risk; where the screening happens is. An unscreened crate arriving at an air cargo facility can be opened for inspection in an environment with no climate control, no art handlers, and no condition documentation. Repacking is performed by whoever is available. Every conservator can describe what comes back.
Pre-screening reverses the equation. The work is inspected in a controlled setting, in the presence of trained preparators, then sealed into its crate, and that seal carries it through the airport untouched. Compliance is satisfied, and custody never leaves professional hands. For institutions shipping loans by air, this is simply how it should be done.
The clients who use screening most are the ones who fly art on deadlines: galleries shipping to fairs, museums sending loans, collectors moving works between residences on opposite coasts. For all of them the calculation is the same. The flight is booked, the opening date is fixed, and the one variable that must never surface is a crate opened by strangers the night before.
Years of moving service experience
30+ Years of Museum Fine Art Moving & Storage
Fine Arts Since 1995
In-House Crating Shop
Museum-Quality Fine Art Storage
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Why Use Naglee Fine Arts for Screening
Federally certified screening
Screening, crating, and transport in one chain
Rare capability outside the metros
Three decades of art logistics
Compliant and Accountable
Screening services operate within Naglee Moving & Storage’s licensed and insured operation: US DOT #15251, NY DOT T-6656, BBB accreditation, and more than a century of continuous business. Documentation accompanies every screened shipment.
Clear Your Artwork for Flight
Areas We Serve
Naglee Moving & Storage is based at 1525 Grand Central Avenue in Elmira and serves the entire Southern Tier. Our crews regularly work in Horseheads, Big Flats, Pine City, Southport, West Elmira, and Elmira Heights, along with Corning, Ithaca, Binghamton, and Rochester. Through the United Van Lines network, we move families and businesses anywhere in the country and around the world.
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Our professional team arrives on time and completes the move efficiently for a smooth experience.
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Moving is what we have been doing since 1912. We keep the process clear, the pricing honest, and the handling careful from first call to final placement.
Got Questions? We've got answers
We answer the questions people actually ask before hiring a mover: licensing, coverage, pricing, and what happens on moving day.
Federal regulation requires screening of all cargo carried on passenger aircraft. Artwork is not exempt, so every work that flies must be screened somewhere: either in a controlled environment beforehand or at the airport.
It can be opened and physically inspected at the cargo facility by personnel with no art handling training, outside climate control, and repacked without documentation. Pre-screening exists to prevent exactly that scenario.
In our own controlled facility, with our preparators handling the work. After screening, the crate is sealed and remains sealed through the airport and the flight.
It is built into the packing schedule rather than added to it. Screening happens as part of crating, so the shipment timeline is set by the flight, not the inspection.
Works departing on aircraft from US airports require screening regardless of destination. For international shipments we pair screening with ISPM-15 export crating and customs documentation in one coordinated process.
Yes. The crate is opened in our controlled facility by preparators, the work is screened, and the crate is resealed for flight. If the existing packing falls short of air transit standards, we will tell you before it flies.
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