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Descartes Customs Compliance Software Solutions

At the heart of Descartes’ comprehensive offering is the Descartes Global Logistics Network™ (Descartes GLN™), one of the world’s largest multimodal networks of transportation providers and their clients. The Descartes GLN facilitates the interchange...

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Dec 09, 2011

Beyond the Border – Working Together with our Customers and U.S. – Canadian Governments to Streamline the Movement of Goods

On Wednesday, U.S. President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Harper released a joint declaration and action plan entitled “Beyond the Border: A Shared Vision for Perimeter Security and Economic Competitiveness”. I thought the following excerpt...

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Customer Success - American Airlines Cargo

American Airlines (AA) Cargo, a division of American Airlines, provides daily scheduled cargo lift to major cities in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Asia. AA Cargo’s extensive interline network also...

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Jul 06, 2011

Southwest Airlines Cargo and Descartes Raise the Bar on Customer Service with Real-Time Cargo Visibility

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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Jun 29, 2011

RFP Automation

Jim Alemany is Director, Rate Management Solutions at Descartes Time is money. When it comes to responding to large shipper Requests for Proposals (RFPs), whether a few hundred or even thousands of lane requests, it can be quite daunting for Non...

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Apr 15, 2011

A History Lesson on Customs Security Filings

Back in March of 2010, at the IATA World Cargo Symposium, it was announced that Descartes had successfully filed its first Import Control System (ICS) test messages with the EU Customs Union. In March of this year, we announced that bmi Cargo...

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Feb 26, 2011

Non-Vessel Operating (“NVO”) Ocean Freight Contracts, Surcharges & Simplified Price Management

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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Feb 09, 2011

Are You Digitizing? How You Can Reduce Financial Management Inefficiencies

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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Jan 12, 2011

Collaborative Forwarding

Jim Alemany is Director, Rate Management Solutions at Descartes Talking to our forwarder customers over the last few months or so, I am seeing a trend in the way forwarders are being asked to work with their customers and hence the types of solutions...

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Nov 03, 2010

ACI is Live – Are You?

October 31 st was the roll out of the ACI Highway (eManifest) mandate by the Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA). ACI is Canada's regulation requiring cross-border shippers and carriers to file electronic manifests for Canada-bound shipments one hour...

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