Transportation & Service Providers

Ocean carriers, air carriers, less-than-load/truckload and third-party logistics providers (3PLs)/freight forwarders must constantly look for ways to conduct logistics business more efficiently and effectively.

Descartes helps transportation and logistics services providers:

• Improve customer service.
• Achieve connectivity with strategic partners.
• Communicate information using existing data formats and systems.
• Connect with logistics content whenever and however it exists in the supply chain.
• Leverage established connections to over 6,000 companies.
• Reduce the IT complexity of connecting to trading partners.
• Audit freight bills and approve payments quickly.
• Improve visibility in the supply chain by receiving detailed information about shipment status across all modes of transportation.

Through the Descartes Global Logistics Network (GLN), the world’s leading transportation providers are connecting to their trading partners and exchanging information to drive delivery performance and high levels of customer satisfaction. The Descartes GLN includes solutions and services for Messaging, Local Haulage/Interline, Rate Management (Ocean), Customs Filing & Compliance — Cross-Border Services, Track & Trace, Shipment Management and Fleet Management.

Descartes' transportation and logistics services provider customers include:

• Averitt DHL
• HSS Hire Service Group
• GIST
• Hanjin Shipping
• Cargo Express
• Old Dominion Freight Lines
• Mallory
• New England Motor Freight
• Schenker
• Watkins Motor Lines, Inc.
• Yang Ming