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Hellenic Shipping News highlights that Descartes eBookings for Ocean Shipment Management is now available on SAP® Store. Integrated with the SAP Logistics Business Network, the Descartes solution digitizes ocean shipment booking for manufacturers, retailers and distributors.

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.

MUNICH, Germany and ATLANTA, Georgia, May 9, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq: DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that Etihad Cargo, the cargo and logistics division of Etihad Airways, has further automated air cargo processes using Descartes’ next generation Internet of Things (IoT) Bluetooth® Low Energy solution integrated with Jettainer’s unit load device (ULD) management services. The combined solutions expand Etihad Cargo’s ability to improve ground processes at cargo and ULD handling and to gain data-driven insights into the transport and ambient conditions of air cargo in transit.

Supply Chain Dive 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.

FreightComms speaks to Descartes’ Chris Jones about the company’s acquisition of Supply Vision, why combining forces appealed to both businesses, and how the Descartes MacroPoint real-time freight visibility solution can improve Supply Vision’s domestic freight forwarding capabilities.

Supply Chain Quarterly covers Descartes’ acquisition of Supply Vision, a provider of shipment management solutions for North American-based logistics services providers.