WHO:

Officials from the Wisconsin Humane Society of Milwaukee, adoptive families
from the Rescue Waggin Midwest pilot, adoptable pets, and PETsMART
Charities Executive Director Susana Della Maddalena will be on hand for
interviews.

WHY:

This is a first-of-its-kind pet transport program launched on a national
scale and is estimated to save the lives of more than 4 ,000 homeless
Midwest pets in its first year alone.

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The Midwest is home to the nation's highest euthanization rates with an
estimated 3,000 homeless pets needlessly euthanized each day on average ,
more than one million annually.

Descartes Launches New Ocean Rate Management Product

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National Institute for Transport and Logistics (NITL) ocean rate
management conference.

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Since effective rate management drives the carrier
booking and documentation process, we see Ocean RateBuilder providing
tremendous opportunities for carriers to improve customer service,
rating accuracy, and workflow efficiency on a global scale.

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Ocean RateBuilder will give carriers the ability to do this in one
global system.

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"Today, carriers typically have several different
systems around the world in which they manage rates and contracts.

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WHAT:

It may look like a personal ad, but for many unwanted and abandoned pets in
Midwest shelters, the new PETsMART Charities Rescue Waggin' Pet Transport
Program is their only lifeline. Wisconsin Avenue in
Milwaukee.

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solutions help customers optimize and gain real-time control of their
inventory, logistics assets and mobile workforce.

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This release contains forward-looking statements that relate to
Descartes' product and service functionality and performance,
potential benefits derived therefrom, Descartes' competitive position
and other matters that may constitute forward-looking statements.

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Ocean RateBuilder also allows ocean carriers to
manage and retrieve both regulated and non-regulated tariff rates and
rate contracts from a single application .

"The new Ocean RateBuilder product has the potential to produce a
quantum shift in the way carriers manage rates and contracts on a
global basis," said Edward Ryan, General Manager of Descartes ' Global
Logistics Network.

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In celebration of the national launch of the Rescue Waggin' Program , the
Waggin' will deliver adoptable dogs and puppies to the Wisconsin Humane
Society from overcrowded shelters in neighboring states, where they faced
euthanasia.

WHEN:

Wednesday, May 18 , from 11 a."

About Descartes

The Descartes Systems Group Inc.

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These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results,
performance or achievements of Descartes to differ materially from the
anticipated results , performance or achievements implied by such
forward-looking statements.

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m. By
enabling companies to efficiently and effectively manage the delivery
of goods, Descartes' products and services help reduce costs, save
time and enhance customer satisfaction.

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For more information, visit www. Such factors include, but are not limited
to, any delay in Ocean RateBuilder being made generally available and
the factors discussed in the section entitled, "Risk Factors" in
documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the
Ontario Securities Commission and other securities commissions across
Canada.

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WHERE:

The Wisconsin Humane Society located at 4500 W.

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Ocean RateBuilder (TM) enables ocean carriers to manage open tariff
rates, contracts and rate agreements in all trade lanes with one
application

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Other key features of Ocean RateBuilder include:

- The ability to use internal codes in the Ocean RateBuilder
database , vastly simplifying integration of rate information into back
office systems that handle booking , documentation, audit, demurrage
and yield analysis;

- Support for importing and exporting spreadsheets, thereby
simplifying the publishing of calculable contracts and rate agreements
and streamlining the process of integrating shipper bids;

- Workflow tools to facilitate, automate and enhance the carrier's
business process for managing the negotiation of rates and contracts
between sales, pricing and trade management;

- The ability to edit rates, inlands, surcharges and contracts in
real-time, enabling bills of lading and rate quotes to include the
most current data;

- Integration of contracts prepared by shippers using Descartes'
Ocean Negotiator bid management tool;

- The ability to generate quotes or contract proposals from
templates for multiple and/or multi-factor rates to customers while
keeping a record of the quote for future reference and booking;

- An integrated, flexible reporting module for enhanced rate
analysis for pricing, sales, customer support and trade management
personnel;

- Enhanced security features that enable protection of global
rates by region, country or more specific geographic criteria.

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Building on Descartes' strong ocean rate management product base,
Ocean RateBuilder includes workflow management - functionality that
enables ocean carriers to use a single application to negotiate rates
with their customers. Descartes delivers trading
partner connectivity and document exchange, rate management , route
planning, wireless dispatch, inventory and asset visibility,
transportation management and warehouse optimization solutions for
industries such as retail, consumer goods, manufacturing ,
transportation, distribution and third-party logistics.

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Descartes' products
and services are used by more than 2,500 customers in over 60
countries.

Businesses that transport animals country -wide or globally.

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, (TSX:DSG), (Nasdaq:DSGX), a
leading provider of on-demand technology and services that help
distribution and logistics sensitive organizations deliver, announced
today the launch of its new Ocean Rate Management product, Ocean
RateBuilder(TM).com

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