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Supply Chain Dive spotlights American Lamprecht, an Illinois-based freight forwarder using Descartes’ advanced shipment tracking capabilities to provide customers with real-time visibility into the location and status of their air and ocean shipments.
DC Velocity shares how Cathay Cargo used Descartes’ air cargo tracking solution to track and monitor the safe journey of a pair of giant pandas from Chengdu, China to their new home at Hong Kong’s Ocean Park Zoo.
American Journal of Transportation shares how freight forwarder American Lamprecht is using Descartes’ advanced shipment tracking capabilities—integrated with Descartes OneView™ Forwarder Enterprise to manage accounting, financial reporting and billing operations—to provide customers with real-time visibility into the location and status of their air and ocean shipments.
RetailWire examines the importance of speed and other factors when it comes to online deliveries, citing findings from Descartes’ 2024 home delivery report showing that 44% of consumers surveyed picked “lowest cost, speed is less important” as their top delivery preference. Furthermore, 20% wanted a “precise delivery window, with speed being less important” and just 15% wanted “fastest delivery, with timeliness being less important.”