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EgyptAir Cargo is the cargo arm of the Egyptian national airline, serving more than 85 postal authorities around the world. With the continued growth of ecommerce air mail shipments, EgyptAir Cargo is focused on modernizing and boosting the...
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Air carrier Silk Way West Airlines, part of the Azerbaijan-based Silk Way Group, is using Descartes' cloud-based Global Air Messaging to streamline operations by automating air cargo communication processes such as the electronic air waybill (eAWB)...
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The Port of Antwerp, the largest port area in the world, has renewed its use of the Descartes Global Network™ (Descartes GLN™) for business-to-business electronic communication services to help accelerate the movement of goods across borders. The...
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Descartes has successfully integrated air and ocean transportation freight messaging and customs declaration filing with SAP® Transportation Management (SAP TM). The integrated solution gives customers using the SAP TM application access to the...
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Norwegian, a low-cost airline experiencing rapid global expansion, is using Descartes' cloud-based Global Air Messaging Gateway solution to help standardize and automate electronic air cargo communication with its customer base of freight forwarders...
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Tony’s Chocolonely, recognized as one of the Netherlands’ leading chocolate brands, is growing its business in the U.S. To support the expansion, the company is using the Descartes Global Logistic Network™ (Descartes GLN™) to streamline electronic...
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Unit Load Device (ULD) Tracking for the Air Freight Industry Unit Load Devices (ULDs) are valuable assets in any air carrier’s widebody operation. Containers and pallets must be available in the right place at the right time to meet today’s global...
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As a supplier, you want to exchange EDI messages, but implementation procedures or an integrated solution are either undesirable or not feasible for your organization. In that case, Descartes Go-webEDI provides the ideal means to get started with EDI...
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The Descartes eBookings™ solution covers the full end-to-end ocean shipment management process and operates on the Descartes Global Logistics Network™ (Descartes GLN™), which brings multiple parties and processes together from the contract to booking...
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Marco Steijger with Bavaria Breweries describes the improvements his company has seen since implementing a Descartes transportation management solution for supply chain optimization. In five years as a Descartes customer, Bavaria has experienced...
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Ken Wood is Senior Vice President, Product Strategy at Descartes Transportation management solutions have been offered to the public for several decades. The first generation of TMS solutions had to be implemented on premise, was extremely complex to...
Jim Alemany is Director, Rate Management Solutions at Descartes When navigating the rough waters of ocean freight transportation, one of the most difficult daily activities for non vessel operating common carriers (NVOCC) and freight forwarders is...
Jim Alemany is Director, Rate Management Solutions at Descartes Increasing cost and complexity One of the biggest line items in logistics spend is the cost of moving goods over the ocean. This is true for several reasons, not the least of which is...
Last week, Descartes announced an alliance with INTTRA to enhance international ocean shipping processes and capabilities available to the global user community. This new United by Design alliance provides a global network capable of managing the...
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To address challenges associated with managing the flow of goods for retailers and their supply chain partners, logistics intensive organizations are turning toward cloud-based solutions to assist in managing the retail post-purchase order process...
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There is no doubt about it – in the modern world, paper invoices will become a thing of the past. Their electronic equivalents are miles more efficient and cost-effective. Many companies are already exchanging electronic invoices, and, with a legal...
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A better way for Non-Vessel Operating Common Carriers to store ocean freight contracts, manage surcharges, simplify price management, provide global visibility, distribute the management of contracts across the organization and create, book and audit...
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How does a modern seaport retain and attract new customers? How do these, ever so important, logistic hubs remain competitive? The challenge for seaports, and the port communities, is to economically extend their Port Community System (PCS) to meet...
In a recent press release, we announced that Southwest Airlines successfully deployed Descartes' cloud-based Air Messaging Service to its cargo customers. We were very pleased to work with the award-winning cargo division, of Southwest Airlines, to...
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