Supply Chain Dive examines how shippers have been adjusting trade lanes and the impact on top U.S. ports, citing Descartes’ insights that over 1M TEUs have shifted away from the West Coast to the Gulf and East Coast ports, with Gulf ports being the biggest beneficiary.
Entrepreneur shares insights from Descartes’ Johannes Panzer about the power of delivery personas to provide retailers with the ability to nurture brand loyalty, add incremental revenue and reduce home delivery costs to increase top- and bottom-line performance.
DC Velocity on Descartes’ expansion of IoT network for tracking and monitoring the condition of air shipments and assets through a 20% increase in the number of active readers worldwide, innovative new technologies and tripling the in-house resources used to monitor growing network operations.
Bloomberg examines the shift in U.S. container import volumes from major West Coast ports, with the Gulf Coast ports being the biggest beneficiary according to trade data from Descartes.
Marketplace speaks to Descartes’ Chris Jones for insights into the shift in U.S. container import volumes from top West Coast ports, with 1M TEUs moving to top Gulf Coast ports and, to a lesser extent, East Coast ports.
Freight Week on Descartes’ expansion of IoT network for tracking air shipments and assets and monitoring the condition of goods in transit through a 20% increase in the number of active readers worldwide, innovative new technologies and tripling the in-house resources used to monitor growing network operations.
In an article featured in Retail Today, Johannes Panzer, Head of Ecommerce Industry Solutions at Descartes describes four factors that impact fulfillment—and ultimately top- and bottom-line performance—as retailers navigate ongoing supply chain turbulence.
In an interview with AJOT, Chris Jones, EVP of Industry at Descartes, shares analysis on U.S. container import trends in the first quarter of 2023, how they are aligned with pre-pandemic 2019 levels, and how container traffic has been shifting from the West Coast to East and Gulf Coast ports.
Descartes has been named to Inbound Logistics’ list of Top 100 Logistics IT Providers.
Supply Chain Brain features in its Think Tank blog a recent Descartes study of 8,000 consumers in Europe and North America showing that consumers are open to home delivery options for their ecommerce purchases, including eco-friendly deliveries, which can reduce costs for retailers while improving revenue and customer loyalty. To reap the rewards, retailers need to stop treating home delivery monolithically.