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American Journal of Transportation spotlights how new Descartes MacroPoint FraudGuard capabilities help combat the increasingly sophisticated tactics of bad actors in transportation and logistics with advanced capabilities to help monitor and minimize the impact of fraudulent activities.
Food Logistics features key takeaways from Descartes’ study, including that the strategies, tactics and technologies used by supply chain and logistics leaders to address labor constraints vary by financial performance, growth, management’s perceived importance of supply chain and logistics operations, and by how successful employee retention programs are.
Supply Chain Dive highlights Descartes’ latest global shipping report, showing that March U.S. container import volumes increased 0.4% from February, but jumped 15.7% when compared to the same month last year, indicating exceptional growth when considering the impact of the Chinese Lunar New Year on the second half of March.
Logistics Business shares findings from Descartes’ labor shortage study showing that, for supply chain and logistics leaders, the top tech choices to help drive productivity gains for labor workers were delivery route optimization (54%) and driver mobile productivity (45%) solutions and, for knowledge workers, real-time shipment tracking (53%).
World Ports Org shared that March U.S. container import volumes experienced a significant increase of 15.7%, compared with the same month last year, and marked an even larger increase of 20.6%, compared with pre-pandemic levels in March 2019, according to Descartes’ recent global shipping report.