VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 8, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IATA
World Cargo Symposium -- Descartes Systems Group (TSX:DSG)
(Nasdaq:DSGX), a federated global logistics network, unveiled its
e-freight solution, Descartes e-Pouch, created specifically to address
the International Air Transport Association (IATA) e-freight initiative
and the needs of the air freight industry to automate and standardize
the cargo shipment process.

The IATA e-freight initiative is an industry-wide program that aims to
reduce the use of paper documents in the airfreight supply chain by
moving to a simpler, paper-free, electronic environment. It involves,
among other participants, airlines, shippers, freight forwarders,
ground handling agents, and customs authorities.

The Descartes e-freight solution helps to group electronic shipment
documents together in a unified construct -- the e-Pouch. Descartes'
e-Pouch allows users to easily share information with the appropriate
parties, automate routine interactions, flag problems, such as missing
documents, at the earliest possible instance and provide a repository
for retrieval of completed deliveries.

Built upon Descartes' Global Logistics Network (GLN), e-Pouch
integrates with Descartes' multi-party suite of air cargo management
tools, including solutions for bookings, shipment monitoring, quality
performance reporting and customs filing. In addition to the air cargo
management tools, Descartes logistics messaging network reduces the
investment required to connect and exchange documents between logistics
and other trading partners.

Descartes e-Pouch is designed to handle air shipment documents in a
fully automated fashion including integration of electronic images. In
areas where structured electronic documents are not available, e-Pouch
uses the GLN imaging services functionality to capture original
documents and insert them into the air shipment folder. This service
operates in a similar fashion as paper document processes. In addition
to automating air shipment processes, Descartes e-Pouch provides an
interface and exception management facilities to repair specific
classes of data problems.

"The highly demanding and competitive nature of the air freight
industry demands that organizations exchange data between disparate
systems in an efficient manner, but also requires full information
visibility into each and every shipment," said Cindy Yamamoto, Senior
Vice President of Global Logistics Product Strategy at Descartes. "With
Descartes e-Pouch, users can readily share information with the
appropriate parties and comply with emerging industry standards such as
IATA's e-freight initiative to improve efficiency and reduce costs
across the air cargo industry."

For more information about Descartes' solutions for air carriers and
forwarders, the new e-Pouch offering and our Global Filer customs
filing portal, visit Descartes' representatives at the IATA World Cargo
Symposium at the Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel, Vancouver BC from March
8-11, 2010 at booths 44 & 45. Also, hear industry experts from
Descartes share their insight during the conference in sessions on the
Quality-Cargo 2000 and Customs tracks. For a detailed agenda follow the
links at http://www.iata.org/wcs2010.

About Descartes

Descartes (TSX:DSG) (Nasdaq:DSGX) is making the world a better place by
enabling global organizations with logistics-intensive businesses to
save money by improving the productivity and performance of their
operations. Underlying Descartes' offerings is the Descartes Global
Logistics Network (GLN), one of the world's most extensive multi-modal
business application networks. As a federated platform, the Descartes
GLN combines with component-based 'nano' sized applications to provide
messaging services between logistics trading partners, shipment
management services to help manage third party carriers and private
fleet management services for organizations of all sizes. Descartes'
solutions and services deliver results by enabling organizations around
the world to reduce administrative costs, billing cycles, fleet size,
contract carrier costs, and mileage driven; improve pickup and delivery
reliability; and optimize working capital through fleet visibility.
Descartes' hosted, transactional and packaged solutions deliver
repeatable, measurable results and fast time-to-value. Descartes
customers include an estimated 1,600 ground carriers and more than 90
airlines, 30 ocean carriers, 900 freight forwarders and third-party
providers of logistics services, and hundreds of manufacturers,
retailers, distributors, private fleet owners and regulatory agencies.
The company has more than 400 employees and is based in Waterloo,
Ontario, with operations in Atlanta, Copenhagen, Heverlee, Pittsburgh,
Ottawa, Montreal, Miami, Washington DC, Derby, London, Silver Spring,
Stockholm, Suzhou, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Toronto. For more information,
visit www.descartes.com.

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CONTACT:  Descartes Systems Group
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