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AmeriGas Rolls-Out Additional Descartes Services to Drive Operational Savings

WATERLOO, Ontario— March 31, 2009 — Descartes Systems Group, a global on-demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) logistics solutions provider, has been contracted to roll-out its routing, dispatch and intelligent automated vehicle locator (AVL) services at AmeriGas, the largest retail propane marketer within the United States. Following the successful implementation of other Descartes solutions, AmeriGas is targeting additional operational savings and productivity improvements to help manage a segment of its national propane delivery operations of over 3,000 vehicles.


By combining route planning and delivery visibility between dispatchers and the field, Descartes’ intelligent AVL service extends the traditional route planning process and provides real-time delivery status. This service helps improve customer responsiveness through real-time status updates, forward predictability and enhanced exception alerting. This information allows AmeriGas to reduce the need to track delivery schedules and identify potential service issues through exception reporting.


“Our organization is focused on improving customer service and operational efficiency as well as reducing our impact on the environment,” said Eugene V. N. Bissell, CEO of AmeriGas. “With the extension of the Descartes solution to include intelligent AVL with routing and dispatch, we can modify our routes dynamically as changes occur during the day to optimize our performance and enhance our responsiveness to customers.”


Descartes Routing, Dispatch and intelligent AVL solutions are an integral part of AmeriGas’ current delivery technology strategy. The comprehensive Route Planning, Dispatch and AVL offering is hosted by Descartes, resulting in reduced implementation costs and shortened time-to-implementation to help AmeriGas impact its bottom-line quickly.


“Our solutions don’t cost, they pay. Our customers have realized benefits and cost savings quickly, allowing them to focus on other areas of their business,” said Adam Moore, Senior Vice President of Descartes. “We also help our customers leverage existing technology investments and extend their business processes further. This is the case with Amerigas, with a planned integration to an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, to help them extend their end-to-end delivery management operations.”


About AmeriGas

Based in Valley Forge, PA, AmeriGas Partners is the nation’s largest retail propane marketer, serving nearly 1.3 million customers from over 600 distribution locations in 46 states. UGI Corporation (NYSE:UGI), through subsidiaries, owns 44% of the Partnership and individual unitholders own the remaining 56%.


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 applications network. As a federated software-as-a-service (SaaS) 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 pick up 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 350 employees and is based in Waterloo, Ontario, with operations in Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Ottawa, Montreal, Miami, Minneapolis, Washington DC, Derby, London, Stockholm, Shanghai, and Toronto. For more information, visit www.descartes.com.

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This release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws (”forward-looking statements”) that relate to Descartes’ solution offering and potential benefits derived therefrom in general and by AmeriGas; and other matters. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from the anticipated results, performance or achievements or developments expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to, the factors and assumptions discussed in the section entitled, “Certain Factors That May Affect Future Results” in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Ontario Securities Commission and other securities commissions across Canada. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. We do not undertake or accept any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in our expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.

Less-than-Truckload Industry is Teetering; Supply Chain Consortium Sees Imbalance, Expects Consolidation

RALEIGH, NC, March 26, 2009 — The turbulent economy has knocked the less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation industry off balance, according to the Supply Chain Consortium’s Domestic Transportation Report.


“With an ever-increasing number of companies turning to smaller shipments and multi-stop truckloads, LTL has been feeling the pinch for a while,” says Chris Ferrell, Associate Director of the Supply Chain Consortium and author of the report. “The variable nature of LTL shipments has left carriers with smaller volumes, despite making the same number of pickups and deliveries. So revenues are decreasing while costs are holding steady — not a good place to be right now.”


With the economy in flux and very few alternatives for carriers available, Ferrell expects many terminals to close and the industry to consolidate through contractions and mergers.


“Certainly, well-capitalized carriers with a desire to expand will be able to add network density at what is likely to be bargain prices,” he adds. “Either way, the issues facing the LTL industry are not likely to be solved until the supply/demand equation is brought back into competitive balance.


The Consortium’s Domestic Transportation Report covers truckload, less-than-truckload (LTL), parcel, and intermodal transportation and shares an overview of how the economy, the federal government’s stimulus package and fluctuating fuel costs have made an impact on the U.S. transportation industry.


Key points from the report include:


● 2009 has the potential to significantly change the domestic transportation industry for years to come due to the federal government’s intensified interest in issues such as national infrastructure investment, reducing dependence on foreign oil, and aggressively addressing environmental issues.


● Although opportunities exist for them to secure favorable long-term capacity commitments at reasonable rates, all shippers need to be careful with their endeavors, including reducing rates and extending payment terms.


● For parcel service, companies need to remember to check out smaller, regional alternatives and the United State Postal Service to ensure that the industry continues to have a variety of options and competition.


● Finally, although fuel prices are down now, they are expected to rise again. Companies are advised to resist the temptation to use monetary savings from low fuel costs to offset other budgetary shortcomings.


 


The Supply Chain Consortium is the premier source for supply chain benchmarking and best practices knowledge. With 200 participating retail, manufacturing and wholesale/distribution companies, the Consortium sponsors a comprehensive repository of 17,000-plus benchmarks complemented by search capabilities, online analysis tools, topic forums and peer networking for supply chain executives and practitioners. The Consortium is led by the needs of its membership and an Advisory Board that includes executives from Campbell Soup Company, Hallmark Cards, Hewlett Packard, Ingram Micro, Kraft Foods, Miller-Coors, The Coca-Cola Company, Target, and True Value Hardware. To learn more about how your company can become a member of the Supply Chain Consortium, contact John Foley, 919-855-5461 or visit www.supplychainconsortium.com  

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Descartes Unveils its Next Generation of Logistics Solutions at Global User Group Conference

Comprehensive, Multi-modal, Multi-process Solutions Are Designed to Deliver Rapid Results for Customers


ATLANTA, Georgia — March 25, 2009 — Descartes Evolution 2009 User Group ConferenceDescartes Systems Group, a global on-demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) logistics solutions provider, unveiled its latest generation of solutions at its Global User Group Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, which runs from March 24-26, 2009.


Descartes’ updated offerings provide a broad footprint of capabilities across multiple modes of transportation to support the end-to-end shipment management process. The solutions leverage the power of the Descartes Global Logistics Network (GLN), a community of over 20,000 companies in over 130 countries exchanging logistics information. As announced earlier this week, Geodis Wilson and Sanimax, are among the major brands that have selected Descartes for the value it delivers by standardizing business processes, connecting them to a community of logistics service providers, as well as extending their shipment management process.


Highlights of enhanced solutions to be demonstrated at the conference include:

• Integrated shipment management for air, ocean, truck and small package operations;

• Combined private fleet and common carrier management;

• Integrated route planning and mobile for fleet operations;

• Multi-national customs and regulatory compliance;

• Advanced messaging services for logistics and commercial communities;

• Integrated visibility, dock appointment scheduling and yard management for inbound operations; and

• Management of customs broker and freight forwarder back-office operations.


The new and enhanced services empower customers to better manage their contract carriers, connectivity with their trading partners, regulatory compliance and fleets. Available as individual components or integrated with the GLN to support end-to-end processes, these solutions are offered on a pay-as-you-go basis to help accelerate time-to-value.


“We’ve spent the last year working on extending and streamlining our offerings to help our customers save money in their businesses. Regardless of size or mode, our solutions deliver results quickly for logistics-intensive organizations,” said Chris Jones, executive vice president of Solutions and Services at Descartes. “At the same time, we deliver some of the most comprehensive and advanced, end-to-end logistics technology available in the market today.”


“In this tough economic climate, providing solutions that pay rather than cost is critical for our customers,” said Arthur Mesher, CEO at Descartes. “Our pay–as-you-go pricing model helps lower the operational and financial risk for our customers. We empower our customers to achieve operational results that impact their bottom line and enable them to compete more effectively in the global economy.”


About 2009 Descartes Global User Conference

Descartes is hosting its Global User Conference and Global Logistics and Customs Advisory Council meetings in Atlanta, Georgia on March 24, 25 and 26, 2009. Details on the events can be found at http://www.descartes.com/usergroup. The primary sponsors for the event are Xata, Avocus Group, BSM Wireless, CombineNet, Intermec, Motorola, Navteq, NationLink Wireless, SMC3, TeleAtlas, Telogis, Turnpike Global Technologies, and Viewnyx. Descartes customers speaking at the event include the Vice President of Engineering at DHL Express, as well as spokespersons from CVS/Pharmacy, Delta Cargo, The Home Depot, Ideal Supply, Panalpina and others. Samuel Banks, Executive Vice President of Sandler & Travis Trade Advisory Services and retired Deputy Commissioner of US Customs will also be speaking at the event covering key issues and strategic global trends for international trade, customs and public health/safety agencies.


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 applications network. As a federated software-as-a-service (SaaS) 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 pick up 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 350 employees and is based in Waterloo, Ontario, with operations in Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Ottawa, Montreal, Miami, Minneapolis, Washington DC, Derby, London, Stockholm, Shanghai, and Toronto. For more information, visit www.descartes.com.


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Descartes Systems Group

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ngerman@descartes.com

Sanimax Keeps Recycling Efforts on Schedule with Descartes

Sanimax Expands its Use of Descartes throughout North America


ATLANTA, Georgia — March 25, 2009 — Descartes Evolution 2009 User Group ConferenceDescartes Systems Group, a global on-demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) logistics solutions provider, is providing more services to Sanimax across North America.


Sanimax currently uses Descartes Route Planner solution across its North American service and delivery operations. Sanimax has now added Descartes Sales and Territory Planner for service territory creation and service policy analysis and Descartes Transportation Manager for managing its outbound transportation process.


Sanimax began working with Descartes’ Route Planner solution to build optimal service plans based on available routes, fleet resources and field personnel. Descartes’ Route Planner solution is an easy-to-use application that helps improve operational efficiency by leveraging market-proven algorithms and geographic network modeling capabilities. The solution enhances the order fulfillment process while reducing costs through shorter routes, reduced fuel consumption and enhanced fleet utilization.


The addition of Sales and Territory Planner allows Sanimax to perform complex service scheduling that considers daily, weekly and multi-week pick-ups, as well as service on holidays and other non-working days. Sales and Territory Planner also evaluates geographic distribution and sales potential by customer to help establish optimal territories and routes. Descartes Transportation Manager allows Sanimax to manage contract truck carriers, from shipment planning through execution and settlement. These comprehensive offerings are hosted by Descartes, providing a lower-cost and shorter implementation approach than traditional enterprise applications, allowing customers like Sanimax to impact their bottom-lines quickly.


“With Descartes, our expectation is to become more efficient in having better route planning,” said Charles Leduc, Vice President Transportation and Logistics at Sanimax. “More precisely, we’re confident that we can do much more while using less fuel, driving fewer miles, improving customer service and reducing negative impact on the environment.”


Descartes Route Planner, Sales and Territory Planner and Transportation Manager are part of the Descartes Delivery Management suite. The Descartes Delivery Management suite integrates design, planning, execution, performance management and messaging solutions that help manufacturers, retailers, distributors, service providers and their logistics services providers to optimize inbound and outbound delivery performance. It helps address business challenges including strategic delivery planning, warehouse optimization, daily planning, reservations, transportation management, supply chain visibility, mobile/dispatch/AVL, and connectivity and messaging.


“Sanimax is a is a great example of a customer that quickly achieved results in a specific area of its operations and is now able to extend these benefits to other areas of the business,” said Adam Moore, Senior Vice President of Descartes. “We look forward to delivering continued results with this expansion.”


About 2009 Descartes Global User Conference

Descartes is hosting its Global User Conference and Global Logistics and Customs Advisory Council meetings in Atlanta, Georgia on March 24, 25 and 26, 2009. Details on the events can be found at http://www.descartes.com/usergroup. The primary sponsors for the event are Xata, Avocus Group, BSM Wireless, CombineNet, Intermec, Motorola, Navteq, NationLink Wireless, SMC3, TeleAtlas, Telogis, Turnpike Global Technologies, and Viewnyx. Descartes customers speaking at the event include the Vice President of Engineering at DHL Express, as well as spokespersons from CVS/Pharmacy, Delta Cargo, The Home Depot, Ideal Supply, Panalpina and others. Samuel Banks, Executive Vice President of Sandler & Travis Trade Advisory Services and retired Deputy Commissioner of US Customs will also be speaking at the event covering key issues and strategic global trends for international trade, customs and public health/safety agencies.


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 applications network. As a federated software-as-a-service (SaaS) 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 pick up 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 350 employees and is based in Waterloo, Ontario, with operations in Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Ottawa, Montreal, Miami, Minneapolis, Washington DC, Derby, London, Stockholm, Shanghai, and Toronto. For more information, visit www.descartes.com.


About Sanimax

Sanimax has been in operation since 1927. It offers a sanitary system for the collection and recycling of cooking oil and grease generated by more than 7,000 foodservice customers in Ontario, including Burger King and McDonalds, among others. This division’s fleet of 27 vans and trailers performs a range of pickup and delivery services round the clock at a rate of 25 to 30 stops a day. For more information, visit www.sanimax.com.


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Nicole German

Descartes Systems Group

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ngerman@descartes.com

Trade Tech Launches New Web Site to Educate Its Customers and Enhance Communication Within the Supply Chain

Trade Tech Launches New Web Site to Educate Its Customers and Enhance Communication Within the Supply Chain BELLEVUE, Washington – March 25, 2009 – Trade Tech, a major supplier of Web-based supply chain and transportation applications and service solutions, announced today that it has launched a new Web site, www.tradetech.net, to educate customers about its full line of products and services. These include a new full-service 10+2 solution for Customs House Brokers and customized collaboration and workflow tools designed to improve communication throughout the supply chain.


“Logistics is an international business, and since partners working together in the supply chain are so geographically strewn apart, we created an Internet-led tool to bring everyone together,” said Bryn Heimbeck, Trade Tech’s CEO. “We aim to contribute substantially to the worldwide conversation on how Internet-based solutions can significantly improve our industry. We are excited about the website becoming more of a ‘working site’ for us – an ongoing virtual conversation about how the Internet will continue to change and develop the industry going forward.”


The new website includes a significant increase in the depth of information available about Trade Tech’s product line. The site also includes more in-depth discussions of key industry issues such as security, collaboration and the future of the logistics industry as the Internet becomes a key resource for all players along the supply chain. The site incorporates the Trade Tech CEO Blog, launched earlier this month by Heimbeck, to further the worldwide conversation on the development of the industry, particularly as it relates to port security and the new 10+2 requirements.


Heimbeck says that Trade Tech will expand the site in the near future to include new ways of reaching out to the industry and its customers. “We are looking at adding more consumer-oriented facilities, such as one-off security filings that allow you to pay online with a credit card, as well as purchasing marine insurance.  Within the next six months we will also add video pieces to the site that make it easier for people to understand the ‘big idea’ concepts that drive Trade Tech’s technology development process,” said Heimbeck. 


“Our technology is designed to simplify our customers’ work processes so we are looking to add more graphs and other visual tools to help people digest fairly complex ideas and concepts,” he said. “We’re also looking to incorporate more interactivity on the consumer side, enabling the site to become a place where people come to do business.”  About Trade Tech:

Trade Tech is an Internet-based supply chain and transportation solutions company owned and operated by industry professionals. Trade Tech is an Application Service Provider (ASP), which licenses and delivers applications in seven key areas, including:-10+2 Rule Solution Provider

-Cost optimization / Pricing

-Transportation Management

-Supply chain / Purchase order visibility (tracking and tracing)

-Sales / Operations

-Accounting

-AMS/ACI and security related to ocean and air transportation, including all Cargo Security Filing requirements.  Founded in 1997, Trade Tech’s applications help link shippers, importers, Customs House Brokers, consignees, NVOCCs, carriers, truckers, warehouses and forwarders, so that everyone in the community has visibility to the movement of goods throughout the supply chain. Trade Tech clients have access to applications and data anywhere in the world, and receive the latest versions of the applications every time they log on to the Trade Tech network – there are no software downloads required. Trade Tech has been providing a full-service solution for AMS to its NVOCC customers since the inception of the 24 Hour Rule. Trade Tech currently services over 350 NVOCC customers through its overseas customer service and data input centers. Media Contact: Melissa Bradley/ bradleycomm@frontiernet.net/ 928-854-1721


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I.D. Systems To Deploy At Mercedes-Benz



I.D. Systems Receives Purchase Order to Deploy Wireless Industrial Vehicle Management Technology at Mercedes-Benz’ Vance, AL, Manufacturing Plant


Hackensack, NJ, —I.D. Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDSY), a leading provider of wireless Vehicle Management Systems (VMS), today announced that it has received a purchase order to implement its PowerFleet™ VMS on a fleet of industrial trucks at the Vance, Alabama, automotive manufacturing complex of Mercedes-Benz U.S. International.  The order was placed by I.D. Systems’ strategic marketing partner NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc., a leading global industrial truck manufacturer, and facilitated by Barloworld Handling, the world’s largest dealer of Hyster® brand industrial trucks.


Mercedes-Benz U.S. International is a subsidiary of Stuttgart, Germany-based Daimler AG (NYSE: DAI), a globally leading producer of premium passenger cars and the largest manufacturer of heavy- and medium-duty trucks in the world.


Wireless Vehicle Management Systems help improve supply chain productivity by establishing accountability for the use of equipment, ensuring equipment is in the proper place at the right time, streamlining material handling work flow, and providing unique metrics on equipment utilization.  A wireless VMS also reduces fleet maintenance costs by automatically uploading vehicle data, reporting vehicle problems electronically, scheduling maintenance according to actual vehicle usage rather than by calendar or manual data entry, and helping determine the optimal economic time to replace equipment.  In addition, a wireless VMS helps improve workplace safety and security by restricting vehicle access to trained, authorized operators, providing electronic vehicle inspection checklists, and sensing vehicle impacts.


“It is extremely gratifying to add Mercedes-Benz to our world-class customer base,” said Peter Fausel, I.D. Systems’ executive vice president of sales, marketing and customer service.  “We view Daimler as a global leader in adopting best-practice technology to streamline manufacturing operations, and we believe Mercedes’ investment in I.D. Systems’ VMS technology is a reflection of its exceptional value—particularly during difficult economic conditions—in managing the inherent safety, productivity, and operational cost issues associated with fleets of industrial vehicles.”


About I.D. Systems:


Based in Hackensack, New Jersey, with a European business office in Düsseldorf, Germany, I.D. Systems is a leading provider of wireless solutions for managing and securing high-value enterprise assets, including industrial vehicles, such as forklifts and airport ground support equipment, and rental vehicles.  The company’s patented technology, which utilizes radio frequency identification, or RFID, technology, addresses the needs of organizations to control, track, monitor and analyze their assets.  For more information, visit www.id-systems.com.


PowerFleet Vehicle Management System


“Safe Harbor” statement:


This press release contains forward looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, such as the Company’s outlook for 2008 financial results and prospects for additional customers and revenues.  Forward-looking statements include statements with respect to our beliefs, plans, objectives, goals, expectations, anticipations, assumptions, estimates, intentions, and future performance, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may be beyond our control, and which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.  All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be forward-looking statements.  These forward-looking statements are subject to risk and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, future economic and business conditions, the loss of any of the Company’s key customers or reduction in the purchase of its products by any such customers, the failure of the market for the Company’s products to continue to develop, the inability to protect the Company’s intellectual property, the inability to manage the Company’s growth, the effects of competition from a wide variety of local, regional, national and other providers of wireless solutions and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007. These risks could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in any forward looking statements made by, or on behalf of, the Company. The Company assumes no obligation to update the information contained in this press release.


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Descartes Customers Leading the Way with “10+2” Importer Security Filing Success

ATLANTA, Georgia — March 24, 2009 — Descartes Evolution 2009 User Group Conference Descartes Systems Group, a global on-demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) logistics solutions provider, announced that its more than 200 Importer Security Filing (ISF) “10+2” customers are making the new filing with U.S. Customs & Border Security (CBP) at an accuracy rate close to 99% - significantly higher than the overall rate of approximately 85% recently reported by CBP.


These results were announced by Descartes’ ISF “10+2” working group, a customer subcommittee of Descartes’ Customs Advisory Council. This working group was formed in response to CBP’s new ISF “10+2” rule that requires importers to provide CBP with 10 data elements about ocean shipments inbound to the U.S. at least 24 hours prior to vessel departure, and ocean carriers to provide 2 data messages at least 48 hours prior to vessel departure.


Descartes’ ISF “10+2” customer working group works with Descartes to enrich the Descartes ISF service, offer industry insight into adoption and roll-out, and communicate with government representatives to better understand and normalize compliance requirements for smoother adoption.


The Descartes ISF Service offers importers, customs brokers, carriers, freight forwarders, NVOCCs and shippers a comprehensive solution to help them make the new ISF filing. To accommodate customers’ varying technical capabilities, Descartes offers options that range from a user-friendly Web solution that permits manual entry of data information, to a tightly integrated system-to-system electronic data interchange (EDI) connection. Regardless of the option chosen, Descartes ISF Service submits required data information electronically to CBP and gathers the status of that filing in real-time streamlining the process and ultimately improving productivity and ensuring compliance.


“At Descartes we strive to enhance our Global Logistics Network and help our customers be prepared for new regulations,” said Ed Ryan, Executive Vice President, Global Field Operations at Descartes. “Our customers have come together with Descartes through this “10+2” working group to standardize business processes and ensure that we deliver solutions to improve their ability to manage shipments while complying with this and future regulations.”


About 2009 Descartes Global User Conference

On March 24, 25 and 26, 2009, Descartes will host its Global User Conference and Global Logistics and Customs Advisory Council meetings in Atlanta, Georgia. Details on the events can be found at http://www.descartes.com/usergroup. The primary sponsors for the event are Xata, Avocus Group, BSM Wireless, CombineNet, Intermec, Motorola, Navteq, NationLink Wireless, SMC3, TeleAtlas, Telogis, Turnpike Global Technologies, and Viewnyx. Descartes customers speaking at the event include the Vice President of Engineering at DHL Express, as well as spokespersons from CVS/Pharmacy, Delta Cargo, The Home Depot, Ideal Supply, Panalpina and others. Samuel Banks, Executive Vice President of Sandler & Travis Trade Advisory Services and retired Deputy Commissioner of US Customs will also be speaking at the event covering key issues and strategic global trends for international trade, customs and public health/safety agencies.


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 applications network. As a federated software-as-a-service (SaaS) 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 pick up 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 350 employees and is based in Waterloo, Ontario, with operations in Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Ottawa, Montreal, Miami, Minneapolis, Washington DC, Derby, London, Stockholm, Shanghai, and Toronto. For more information, visit www.descartes.com.


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Descartes Systems Group

1-416-741-2838 ext. 298

ngerman@descartes.com

Geodis Wilson Uses Descartes to Standardize Global Customs Filings

ATLANTA, Georgia — March 24, 2009 — Descartes Evolution 2009 User Group ConferenceDescartes Systems Group, a global on-demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) logistics solutions provider, announced that Geodis Wilson, one of the world’s largest freight forwarders, is using Descartes to standardize its global customs filing process.


With over 5,500 employees and a global network of customers, Geodis Wilson chose Descartes Customs Filing and Compliance services to help it comply with international customs agencies’ regulatory requirements and security initiatives. Descartes’ customs services enable Geodis Wilson to streamline its operations, accelerate filings and ensure compliance. In addition, by addressing its customs compliance needs through a single provider with a multimodal, global network of transportation providers and their customers, Geodis Wilson has improved its customer service and productivity, as well as reduced overall operational costs. Specifically, Geodis Wilson will be using Descartes for its Ocean AMS Ocean ACI, Air AMS and ACI Direct filing requirements.


“Geodis Wilson is focused on improving our core processes to enhance the customer experience. Our relationship with Descartes enables us to automate previously manual processes, ultimately reducing costs,” said Frank Baranski, Process Director at Geodis Wilson Headquarters.

Descartes provides a range of offerings that facilitate the end-to-end shipment management process across modes of transportation, including customs compliance, for organizations and trading partners around the globe. Its Customs Filings and Compliance services enable organizations like Geodis Wilson to facilitate global shipments while meeting the various requirements for global regulatory and customs compliance agencies.


“As organizations face increasing pressure to keep pace with the diverse and growing range of global customs requirements, they must also meet an equally compelling customer demand for efficiency and speed,” said Art Mesher, CEO of Descartes. “We help our customers address these needs by providing a single source to manage current global customs compliance filings across modes of transportation for organizations and trading partners around the globe.”


As a value-added application of the Descartes Global Logistics Network (GLN), these filing and compliance services also leverage Descartes’ established relationships with global regulatory and government agencies, enabling users to streamline any part or all of their customs processes, from providing electronic connectivity with border agencies to turnkey data capture and customs filing.


About Geodis Wilson

Geodis Wilson is one of the world’s largest freight management companies. They serve their customers with integrated supply chain solutions that deliver cargo by sea and air. Their expertise, value-added services and e-services enable their customers to streamline the flow of goods. They also make your supply chain more transparent and easier to manage. They have in-depth knowledge of several markets including high-tech, pharmaceuticals, textiles and automotive products. And also specialize in marine logistics, industrial projects and other niche markets. For more information, please visit www.geodiswilson.com


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 applications network. As a federated software-as-a-service (SaaS) 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 pick up 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 350 employees and is based in Waterloo, Ontario, with operations in Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Ottawa, Montreal, Miami, Minneapolis, Washington DC, Derby, London, Stockholm, Shanghai, and Toronto. For more information, visit www.descartes.com.


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Descartes Systems Group

1-416-741-2838 ext. 298

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CMA CGM (America) LLC Launches Dedicated Reefer Customer Service Desk

Norfolk, Virginia – March 24, 2009 - CMA CGM (America) LLC announced today that they will launch a new dedicated export reefer customer service desk on March 30, 2009. The new Export Reefer Customer Service Desk will be based in the Norfolk, Virginia office, and will give export refrigerated cargo customers access to a dedicated team of seasoned customer service representatives that can help customers place or modify bookings, track and trace cargo, process documentation and/or assist with problem resolution.


“Having a devoted team of professionals working with our reefer clients ensures that our customers’ shipments receive the proper handling,” said Jeanne Wilson, Vice President, Import and Export Services for CMA CGM (America) LLC. “Reefer cargo requires special treatment, and this team has extensive expertise in transporting fragile and precious refrigerated cargo.”


CMA CGM (America) LLC provides comprehensive door-to-door reefer logistics solutions for customers in each of the major reefer trades. The company’s knowledgeable reefer professionals work with customers to provide the safe and reliable transport of perishable products around the globe. They offer specialized services handling all types of temperature controlled cargo – frozen, chilled, or humidity controlled.


CMA CGM operates a fleet of modern, environmentally-friendly reefer containers and gensets for the direct transportation of chilled or frozen consignments. With the recent acquisition of 5,000 new reefers, the company’s total reefer fleet is now over 95,000 TEUs.


Beginning March 30, 2009, customers can contact the Export Reefer Desk by dialing 1-877-556-6308, option 1 then option 3.


About CMA CGM (America) LLC

Headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, CMA CGM (America) LLC is the U.S. agent of France-based container shipping giant CMA CGM. The company provides 22 services in and out of North America, and offers a global network to over 150 countries around the world. For more information, please visit www.cma-cgm.com/usa.


About CMA CGM

Led by its founder Jacques R. Saadé, CMA CGM is currently the world’s third largest container shipping Group and is ranked number one in France. Operating a fleet of 400 vessels, including 100 company-owned, the Group serves over 400 ports around the world. In 2008, it carried more than nine million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units). With a presence on all continents and in 150 countries through its network of 650 agencies, the Group employs 17,000 people worldwide. For more information, please visit www.cma-cgm.com.


For more information, please contact:


Veronica Gerken

Manager, Marketing and Communications

(757) 961-2117

usa.vgerken@cma-cgm.com

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Sierra Army Depot Marks Successful Demonstration of Wireless Vehicle Management Technology from I.D. Systems, Inc.


Sierra, CA, —Sierra Army Depot (SIAD) hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony today to mark the successful demonstration of an innovative wireless industrial Vehicle Management System (VMS) from I.D. Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDSY). The system—referred to by SIAD as the Centralized Fleet Automated Management System (CFAMS)—was implemented under a Commercial Technologies for Maintenance Activities (CTMA) program, with the goals of reducing industrial vehicle maintenance costs, improving fleet mission readiness, increasing material handling productivity and the consequential velocity of critical warfighter supplies, and improving worker safety.


 The ribbon-cutting also served as a formal introduction of CFAMS to other U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) agencies, and was attended by representatives of DoD facilities from across the United States. “We consider CFAMS one of our marquee CTMA projects, with a projected benefit across the DoD measured in the tens of millions of dollars,” said Greg Kilchenstein, of the Office of the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Maintenance Policy and Programs.


SIAD’s demonstration of CFAMS capabilities focused on proving three primary areas of benefit:


• improving vehicle preventative maintenance management and reducing fleet maintenance costs;


• identifying opportunities to reduce fleet size and associated capital and operating costs; and


• reducing the costs associated with facility and equipment damage caused by vehicles.


Based on months of accumulated data, the CFAMS deployment at SIAD demonstrated that the following


benefits were achievable:


• By automatically uploading true vehicle usage data for more accurate maintenance scheduling, and by


automatically alerting maintenance personnel to problematic conditions on vehicles, CFAMS showed


that fleet maintenance costs could be reduced by at least 22%.


• By isolating vehicle utilization patterns by equipment type and role, CFAMS demonstrated that a fleet


reduction of at least 15%-20% was immediately achievable, with a commensurate reduction in


purchase outlays, fuel costs, and maintenance costs. In addition, this fleet “right-sizing” could enable


a substantial reallocation of labor to increase overall depot productivity.


• By monitoring and recording detailed data on vehicle “impact events,” by preventing unauthorized


personnel from using vehicles, and by establishing better driver accountability, CFAMS showed that


the costs resulting from damage caused by vehicles could be reduced by up to 25%.


• Overall, CFAMS demonstrated that it could pay for itself and start generating positive cash flow for


the depot within 12 to 16 months of deployment.


 “Maintenance is a significant expense for the DoD and a critical factor in sustaining materiel readiness for our nation’s armed forces,” said Peter Fausel, I.D. Systems’ executive vice president of sales, marketing and customer service. “We are honored and pleased that our wireless vehicle management technology has demonstrated an ability to have a positive influence on the DoD’s material handling operations. We look forward to introducing CFAMS to many more DoD facilities.”


 The initial CFAMS implementation at SIAD was funded through an agreement with the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, a non-profit organization that forms partnerships between the DoD and private industry to facilitate development, deployment and validation of innovative commercial technologies that can provide operational benefits and cost savings for DoD maintenance activities.


 SIAD is an installation of the U. S. Army’s Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) under the U. S. Army Materiel Command. The depot’s mission is to provide worldwide logistics support for the U.S. Army, including receipt, storage, repair, shipping, maintenance, and fabrication of assets. The depot is a Center of Industrial Technical Excellence focused on “lean manufacturing” process improvements.


 About I.D. Systems:


Based in Hackensack, New Jersey, with a European business office in Düsseldorf, Germany, I.D. Systems is a leading provider of wireless solutions for managing and securing high-value enterprise assets, including industrial vehicles, such as forklifts and airport ground support equipment, and rental vehicles. The company’s patented technology, which utilizes radio frequency identification, or RFID, technology, addresses the needs of organizations to control, track, monitor and analyze their assets. For more information, visit www.id-systems.com.


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This press release contains forward looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, such as the Company’s outlook for 2008 financial results and prospects for additional customers and revenues. Forward-looking statements include statements with respect to our beliefs, plans, objectives, goals, expectations, anticipations, assumptions, estimates, intentions, and future performance, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may be beyond our control, and which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to risk and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, future economic and business conditions, the loss of any of the Company’s key customers or reduction in the purchase of its products by any such customers, the failure of the market for the Company’s products to continue to develop, the inability to protect the Company’s intellectual property, the inability to manage the Company’s growth, the effects of competition from a wide variety of local, regional, national and other providers of wireless solutions and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007. These risks could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in any forward looking statements made by, or on behalf of, the Company. The Company assumes no obligation to update the information contained in this press release.

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