Amidst the shortage of skilled labor in the vehicle logistics industry, Supply & Demand Chain Executive explains how AI and decision intelligence are bridging the skills gap, extending human capacity through systems that preserve and build knowledge, accelerate training, and increase resilience.
American Journal of Transportation unpacks the findings from Descartes’ 2025 Forwarder/Broker Benchmark Study, revealing a cautious yet optimistic logistics industry. Forwarders and brokers face concerns about global instability and tariff uncertainty, yet remain hopeful about the possibilities AI technology offers, including automation, efficiency, analysis, and intelligence.
Commercial Carrier Journal shares [2:20] how Estes Logistics has used the Descartes GLN and Descartes’ routing and mobile technology for more than 15 years to optimize transportation operations, growing its dedicated logistics business from under $200 million in annual revenue to more than $500 million—while maintaining an on-time delivery rate exceeding 98%.
CSO speaks to Descartes’ Danielle Spinelli (aka Fraud Girl) about the rising incidence of cyber-enabled freight fraud (e.g., phishing attacks) and what steps transportation providers should be taking to reduce the risk of costly security breaches and cargo theft.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive takes a glimpse behind the scenes of the order journey, sharing insights from Descartes’ Johannes Panzer into how retailers can have a successful peak season—despite today’s volatile trade landscape, cost constraints, and labor shortage—with the right technology driving fulfillment.
Descartes’ CEO Edward Ryan speaks to BNN Bloomberg on the company’s Q3 earnings and outlook, as well as on the importance of its Global Logistics Network to AI innovation.
Talking Logistics shares insights from Descartes’ Glenn Palanacki about the results of the 2025 Global Forwarder/Broker Benchmark Survey. Tariff uncertainty and rising consumer costs due to tariff policies are propelling forwarders and brokers to embrace trade services and technology to help mitigate tariff impacts for their customers.
Entrepreneur spotlights insights from Descartes’ Johannes Panzer on how using ecommerce tech like shipping software, IMS and WMS at appropriate stages of growth helps brands prevent overhead bloat and maintain operational clarity while mastering fulfillment.
Supply Chain Brain shares insights from Descartes’ Filipe Santos on current and emerging supply chain applications of AI agents, such as process automation agents, virtual field-ops assistants, multimodal extraction agents and customer experience communication agents, and the challenge of ensuring AI innovation meets enterprise standards for reliability, security and compliance.
Reuters shares insights from Descartes’ latest global shipping report, showing that total September U.S. container imports dropped 8.4% yr/yr and shipments from China to the U.S. dropped nearly 23% amid tariff volatility.