Etihad Crystal Cargo selects Descartes Cargo 2000 to standardize processes and boost customer service

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About Etihad Crystal Cargo:

Launched in 2004, Etihad Crystal Cargo is the fast growing cargo division of Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates. The company's goal is to build a truly 21st Century airline offering sophisticated and innovative air cargo services, based on three core promises: Ultimate Information Transparency; 21st Century Technology; and Total Customer Focus. With its home base at Abu Dhabi International Airport, Etihad Crystal Cargo offers its valued customers an extensive range of cargo services on all flights of Etihad Airways' rapidly expanding network. In addition, a regional freighter fleet operates scheduled all-cargo destinations and worldwide charter services. Etihad Crystal Cargo is working with carefully selected, experienced General Sales and Services Agents (GSSAs) worldwide.

About Descartes:

Descartes (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG) 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 networks. 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 pickup and delivery reliability; and optimize working capital through fleet v! isibility. 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, contact:

Nicole German
Descartes Systems Group
Tel: 1-416-741-2838 ext. 298