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ChannelPorts Speeds Customs Declarations Filing with Descartes


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LONDON, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that ChannelPorts, the UK’s leading neutral customs clearance agent, has improved the speed and visibility of its customs declarations processing using Descartes e-Customs™ and Descartes Pentant™ solutions.

“Speed of operation is everything at our customs clearance facility, which services the Eurotunnel and Port of Dover,” said Paul Wells, Managing Director at ChannelPorts. “The Descartes Pentant application provides us with a flexible and cost-effective solution that is truly designed around our specific operational and logistical needs to manage road vehicle manifests. Descartes e-Customs offers us the real-time information we need to provide the highest level services to our clients.”

On behalf of its clients, ChannelPorts manages clearances of vehicles utilising more than 80 crossings daily through the Port of Dover and up to seven trains hourly, with approximately 32 vehicles per train, through the Eurotunnel. Descartes’ Pentant solution provides ChannelPorts with a reliable and secure connection to both CHIEF (the central UK Revenue & Customs system) and ICS (the European Union Import Control System) to streamline declaration, cargo security and clearance processes. Descartes Integrated Customs for Europe™ is enabling ChannelPorts to provide real-time filing status visibility to its clients’ customs declarations to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and other UK government agencies.

“We’re pleased to help ChannelPorts with its unique proposition to improve its responsiveness and customer visibility,” said Pól Sweeney, Vice President of UK Sales and Business Management at Descartes. “Customers, like ChannelPorts, benefit from the broad customs compliance domain expertise of Descartes and our market-leading global Customs and Regulatory Compliance solution portfolio.”

About ChannelPorts
ChannelPorts is the leading neutral customs clearance agent in the UK with a proven track record of quickly and efficiently keeping vehicles and consignments on the move through the customs clearance process. For more information, visit www.channelports.co.uk.

About Descartes
Descartes (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG) is the global leader in providing on-demand, software-as-a-service solutions focused on improving the productivity, performance and security of logistics-intensive businesses. Customers use our modular, software-as-a-service solutions to route, schedule, track and measure delivery resources; plan, allocate and execute shipments; rate, audit and pay transportation invoices; access global trade data; file customs and security documents for imports and exports; and complete numerous other logistics processes by participating in the world’s largest, collaborative multimodal logistics community. Our headquarters are in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and we have offices and partners around the world. Learn more at www.descartes.com.

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; 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 including Descartes’ most recently filed management’s discussion and analysis. If any such risks actually occur, they could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations. In that case, the trading price of our common shares could decline, perhaps materially. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Forward-looking statements are provided for the purpose of providing information about management’s current expectations and plans relating to the future. Readers are cautioned that such information may not be appropriate for other purposes. 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, except as required by law.

Global Media Contact
Mavi Silveira
Tel: +1(800) 419-8495 ext. 202416
msilveira@descartes.com

Source: Descartes via GLOBE NEWSWIRE

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