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Publications and
presentations § Big-Ship Terminals, Detaching
Waterside from Landside Operations, Port Technology, 2019. PDF § Functional Approach
to the Palestinian Safe Passage between Gaza
and the West Bank, 2019 PDF § Big Ships and
Densification of Container Terminals, Port Technology, 2018. PDF § Big Ships, Deep Channels and Transfer Terminals, Port Technology, 2018. PDF § Gaza Port
Alternatives (5.0), Gaza Group of Experts, 2018. Full Report PDF. Short
Summary 2021, PDF.. Gaza Island Port 2020 (Hebrew) PDF. Media: JNS, 2021 PDF, Haaretz, 2017 PDF § US Army Corp’s
Cost-Benefit Deepening Review -- Flawed, Journal of Commerce,
2017. PDF § US Port Capacity, Journal of Commerce Annual Review & Outlook 2017. PDF §
Long-Term Developments of US Ports' Channels, Journal of Commerce Annual Review &
Outlook 2016.PDF §
Rodrigue,
JP and Ashar, A. (2015) 'Transshipment hubs in
the New Panamax Era: The role of the Caribbean', Journal
of Transport Geography, October 2015. PDF
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Devolution of US Ports' Channels, Journal of Commerce Annual Review &
Outlook 2015.PDF
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Impact of Panama Canal and American Marine
Highway (Coastal Shipping), Journal of Commerce Annual Review & Outlook 2014.PDF
https://www.joc.com/maritime-news/annual-review-outlook-2014-national-ports-waterways-initiative-university-new-orleans_20140103.html Expanded version published in Container Management, March
2014. PDF
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Dredging - Key Factor for US Container Port
Call Strategies,
Dredging Today.com, Aug 30, 2013.PDF §
Coastal Shipping and Jones Act, The Journal of Commerce Annual Review
& Outlook 2013, February 2013. PDF http://www.joc.com/maritime-news/short-sea-shipping/annual-review-outlook-2013-national-ports-and-waterways-initiative-university-new-orleans_20130207 §
Alternative Development Plan for Chile's
Region V Ports,
Proceedings of Sonar Valparaiso, April 2012.PDF
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Revised Fourth Revolution -- Long-Term
Trends in Liner Shipping, Port Technology International, Fifty-Fifth Edition, October 2012 pp. 77-93 (expanded version).
PDF,
WolrdCargo,
March 2013. PDF §
Marine Highway's New Direction (US Short-Sea
Shipping), The Journal of
Commerce, Commentary,
November 21, 2011 pp. 38-39. PDF
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Paying for Benefits (Modifying the Pricing
System for Deep Port Channels), The Journal of Commerce, Commentary, January 23, 2011 p. 23. PDF
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AAPA Rebuttal, January 31, 2011 PDF Response, February
2, 2011 PDF §
Kent, P. and Ashar, A. (2010) ‘Performance
Indicators for Regulators’, Proceedings
of International Journal of Maritime Economics (IJME) Conference, Lisbon, July
2010, PDF §
An Expanding Brief, (Impact of Panama Canal
Expansion), Containerization
International, July 2010, pp.27 -
28. PDF §
The Impact of Panama Canal Expansion, Proceedings of TOC Americas 2009, November 2009.PDF §
Alternative Development Plan for Central
Chile Ports, Proceedings of TOC Americas 2009, November
2009.PDF §
De-Intermodlization of the Ports of Los
Angeles and Long Beach, Containerization
International, July 2009 and The
Journal of Commerce, April 15, 2009 (short version). PDF §
The Inevitability of Change, Interview in Container Management, Latin American
Edition, November 2008. PDF §
New Era in Container Shipping (Port of
Prince Rupert),
The Journal of Commerce,
March 3, 2008. PDF § Executive Commentary: Feedering USEC Ports following Panama
Canal Expansion, The Journal of
Commerce, 2007 Annual Edition,
January 2008. PDF §
Future Trends in West Coast South America
Shipping Pattern,
Proceedings of TOC
Americas 2007, November 2007. PDF §
Sounding Off: All Water Suez vs. Panama, Containerization
International, August 2007, pp. 72. PDF §
Executive Viewpoint: Short Sea Shipping in
the US, The Journal of Commerce 2006
Annual Edition, December 2006. PDF §
Revolution #4, Containerization
International, December 2006, pp. 46 – 48. PDF §
Pure Fast Freight Ferries for Coastal
Shipping in the US,
Proceedings of the JOC Short Sea Conference, May 2003 and June 2000. 2004 PDF,
2000
PDF §
Toward New ART Form, WorldCargo,
March 2004, pp. 17-18. PDF §
Long-Term Development of US Ports, TRB Conference on Marine Transportation
System, Washington DC, November 2004. PDF §
Reversal of Fortune, Long-Term Forecast for
US Ports, Containerization
International, January 2004, pp. 58-61. A summary was also published in WorldCargo,
March 2004. PDF §
User Charges for Port Cost Recovery: the US
Harbor Tax Controversy, Maritime
Economics & Logistics, Volume IV, No 5, March 2003. PDF §
Revolution Now, Containerization International,
January 2002, pp. 56-59. PDF §
Pure Fast Freight Ferries for Coastal
Services in the US,
Proceedings of the Ro/Ro 2002 Conference, June 2002. A summary was also
published in Le Lloyd Anversois, Paris, France, June 31, 2002. §
Intermodal, Rail Connection between the West
Bank and Gaza, Interview in Maariv, Weekend
Magazine, March 30, 2001 (in Hebrew).PDF §
US Ports’ Capacity and Capability, Proceedings of the Marine Transportation
System, Research and Technology Conference, TRB / Marine Board (National
Academy of Science), Washington DC, November 2001. §
Comments to: Technological and Economic
Implications of Mega-Container Carriers by Hans Payer, Proceedings of Society for Naval
Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME), September 2001. §
Defining Criteria for Transshipment Hub
Ports, Proceedings of
Terminal Operations Conference (TOC) America 2001 Conference, September 2001. §
Strategic Pricing in Newly Privatized Ports,
International Journal of Maritime Economics (IJME), Volume III,
No1, March 2001. PDF §
Kent, P. and Ashar, A. (2001) ‘Port
Competition Regulation: A Tool for Monitoring for Anti-Competitive Behavior’, International
Journal of Maritime Economics (IJME), Volume III, No1, March
2001. PDF §
A New Revolution Rebuttal, Containerization International,
April 2001, p. 4. PDF §
Fast Coastal Ferries in the U.S., Proceedings
of the 17th Fast Ferry Conference, March 2001. §
The Impact of the Fourth Revolution on Latin
America, Proceedings of Latin Ports 2000
Conference, November 2000. §
The Prospects for the Yangshan Port in
Shanghai, Proceedings of the Terminal Operations
Conference (TOC) 2000, May 2000. §
The Fourth Revolution and Transshipment
Potentials for Panama Ports Port Productivity, Proceedings
of the Terminal Operations Conference (TOC) 2000, May 2000. §
The Prospects for Revival of Coastal
Shipping in the U.S.,
Proceedings of the Permanent International Navigation Association Conference
(PIANC) 2000, May 2000. §
The Fourth Revolution, Containerization International,
December 1999, pp. 57 - 61; and 2020 Vision, Containerization
International, January 2000, pp. 35 - 39. Excerpts of the papers were
published in: (a) Mundo
Maritimo and
El Universal, Panama, February 2000; (b) American Association of Port
Authorities Advisory, March 13, 2000; (c) The Journal of Commerce,
June 5, 2000; (d) Traffic
World, June 12, pp. 36 - 37; (e) The Journal of Commerce, June 19, 2000;
(f) Cargo Systems,
June 2000; (g) IFW,
International Freighting Weekly, March 5, 2001; and (h)
Proceedings of IFEC, International Port Executives Conference, 2002. §
Port Productivity: a new Emphasis in the Era
of Concessions, Distribucion Fisica,
No. 22, May 1999, Lima, Peru (together with G. Ayzanoa). §
Long Term Trends in Container Shipping:
Equatorial Round-The-World Services and their Impact on European Ports, Proceedings
of the VIII Congress of Maritime Transport and Ports, The Ports
of Spain, November 1999. §
Long Term Trends in Container Shipping:
Equatorial Round-The-World Services and their Impact on European Ports,
Proceedings of the VIII Congress of Maritime Transport and Ports, The Ports
of Spain, November 1999. §
Long Term Trend in Container Shipping: The
Emergence of Equatorial Round-The-World Services and Pure Transshipment Ports, Proceedings of the Terminal Operations
Conference (TOC) 99, June 1999. §
Misunderstanding the Harbor Tax, The
Journal of Commerce, May 26, 1999. §
A Standard Ship Handling (Stevedoring)
Contract, Proceeding of the
Containerport & Terminal Performance in the Intermodal Chain Conference,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 1999. A modified version of the paper,
titled Units of
Measurement for Productivity and Indicators of Productivity
was included in the book Container
Terminal Productivity, Cargo Systems, IIR Publications, London,
U.K., June 1999. §
Coastal Shipping of Containers and Trailers
in the U.S., Proceeding of
Permanent International Association of Navigation Congress (PIANC), The
Hague, The Netherlands, July 1998. §
Counting the Moves, Port
Development International (PDI), November 1997, pp. 25 - 29. §
Port Productivity Revisited, Proceeding of Terminal Operators
Conference (TOC) 97, Barcelona, Spain, June 1997. Part 1 PDF , Part 2 PDF §
The Impact of Dredging/Not-Dredging New York
Harbor, Transportation Quarterly,
ENO Transportation Foundation, winter 1997. Reprints were requested and sent
to over 30 ports and transportation organizations in the USA. Part
1 PDF , Part 2 PDF , Part
2 PDF §
Freight Components in Louisiana's Statewide
Intermodal Transportation Plan, Transportation Planning and Land Use at State,
Regional, and Local Levels, Transportation Research Record No. 1552, Washington D.C.,
November 1996. §
Evolution in Transshipment Patterns in
Containerized Trade and the Emerging Hub Ports, Proceeding of Terminal Operators
Conference (TOC) 96, Hamburg, Germany, April 1996. §
Freight Components in Louisiana's Statewide
Intermodal Transportation Plan, Transportation Research Board 1996 Proceeding, Washington
D.C., January 1996 (with C. Appfel, A. Hochstein, K. Horn and R. McLaughlin). §
The Potential for Small Containerships, Commercial Shipbuilding USA Conference
Proceeding 1995, Marine Log, Washington D.C., December 1995. §
Maritime System of the Americas Study, Permanent International Association of
Navigation Congress (PIANC), 1995 (with A. Hochstein and R. McLaughlin). §
Factor Analysis and Benchmarking Port's
Performance, Maritime Policy & Management,
University of Wales Publication, United Kingdom, vol. 22, no. 4, 1995.PDF1 PDF2 §
Maritime vs. Land Transport Systems between
Mid-America and Mexico, The
Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Volume 36, Number
1, 1996, pp. 1 - 16. §
Stock and Flow Methodology for Calculating
Capacity of Cargo Transfer Terminals, Proceeding of Second Annual Conference on Transportation
Management, Sate University of New York, Maritime College, May 1995 (with G.
Ayzanoa). PDF §
Maritime System of the Americas Study, PIANC
Bulletin, No 87, 1995, pp. 28 - 35 (with A. Hochstein and R.
McLaughlin). Coastal
Shipping for Domestic Freight, WWS/Worldwide Shipping, January 1995, pp.
28-29. An earlier version of the paper was: (a) presented to the National
Commission of International Transportation of the U.S. Congress, May 1994;
and (b) circulated among all members of U.S. Congress by Congressman James
Traficant (D-IL) of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation as a
Media Advisory, November 1994. Excerpts of this article also appeared in The Journal of Commerce
(January 1995), Pacific
Maritime (January 1995),
Inbound Logistic Magazine (February 1995), and German Transport News (in
German, January 1995). §
FastShip: In-Transit, In-Stock and Inventory
Cost, The Journal of Commerce,
Trade Section, December 16, 1994. The paper was included in the proceeding of
The Economics of Fast Cargo Ships Conference Proceedings, The international
Association of Maritime Economist and The Society of Naval Architects and
Marine Engineers, Washington D.C., June 1997. §
Defining Performance Measures for an
Intermodal Management System, The
Journal of Transportation Research Forum, November 1994 (with P.
Stopher, C. Appfel and others). The paper received the 1994 TRF Intermodal
Research Award. §
On-Off Terminal Ship-to-Rail Transfer, ASCE/PIANC Port's '92 Conference
Proceedings, Seattle, July 1992, pp. 108-131. §
On-Off Terminal Ship-to-Rail Transfer and
the All-Rail Terminal, Cargo Systems, 7th Terminal Operations Conference Papers,
June 1992, Genoa, Italy, pp. 101-106. PDF §
Intermodal (Rail) Terminal Capacity -- a
Stock & Flow Simulation, National Science Foundation, Transportation Research Board,
Intermodal Committee, Washington D.C., January 1992. §
The Rise and Fall of Omniport, Cargo
Systems, November 1991, pp. 139-143. §
On Selectivity and Accessibility, Cargo
Systems, June 1991, pp. 44-45. PDF §
Productivity, Capacity and Equity in the
Port of San Juan,
WWS/World Wide Shipping,
May 1991. The article was translated into Japanese by Mitsui Corp. and
published in The Journal
of Japan Cargo Handling Mechanization Association, July 1992. PDF §
Planning and Operations of Inland Ports, United Nations, Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), a text book (250 pp.), January
1991. §
Overweight Containers: Short and Long Term
Perspectives, WWS/World Wide Shipping,
October 1990, pp. 70 - 73. §
Dual Hoist Cranes -- Feasibility Assessment, WWS/World
Wide Shipping, July 1990, pp. 72 - 74. §
On-Off Dock Terminal Ship-to-Rail Transfer, Maritime
Policy & Management, University of Wales publication, United
Kingdom, Volume 17, July 1990. PDF §
Multi-Dimensional Evaluation Methodology for
Port Projects, WWS/World Wide Shipping,
a series of two articles, April-May 1989, pp. 59 - 62 and June 1989, pp. 29 -
32. §
Evolutionary Trends in Breakbulk Cargo
Handling, WWS/World Wide Shipping,
November 1988, pp. 56 - 59. §
On-Off Dock Intermodal Transfer, The
Perplexing Case of Long Beach, WWS/
World Wide Shipping, September 1988, pp. 46 - 51. §
Strategic Planning for National Port Systems, International Maritime Seminar on Changes
in the World Shipping Environment and Counter Strategies toward the year
2000, Korea Maritime Institute, Seoul, Korea, July 1988 (45 pages, with Dr.
A. Hochstein). §
Prospects for River/Ocean Short Sea Shipping
in the U.S., a Conference Paper
& Journal of the
Transportation Research Forum publication (with Drs. A. Hochstein
and K. Horn), June 1988. §
Container on Barge Prospects on the
Mississippi River,
WWS/World Ports,
February 1987, pp. 25 - 28. §
Strategic Port Planning -- the Global
Consideration, a Conference
Paper, Ports and Terminals Conference 1987 Publication, sponsored by the Port
Authority of New York/New Jersey and WWS/ World Wide Shipping, July 1987. §
Ports' Strategic Planning - the New Role of
Shipping Lines, WWS/World Ports, June
1986, pp. 71 - 74. §
Capacity Modeling for Container Terminals, WWS/World
Ports, January 1986. §
Container Terminal Productivity and Capacity, a series of two articles, WWS/World Ports,
November 1985, pp. 73 - 75, January 1986, 93 - 95. Part 1 PDF , Part 2 PDF §
Intermodalism, the Case for On-Dock
Operations, WWS/World Ports, March
1984, pp. 78 - 79. §
Container Crane Pricing -- A Fleet Approach, WWS/World
Ports, November 1983, pp. 64 - 66. §
Container Revolution II -- Twinning the
Boxes, WWS/World Ports, May
1983, pp. 33 - 34. §
Several papers were included in the graduate programs of the
Center for Marine Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
MA; the Institute of Marine Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA;
and Texas A & M University, Galveston, TX. One paper (on Omniport
Houston) served as a basis for Harvard Business School Case Study. Excerpts
of 2 papers were included in
Intermodal Freight Transportation, ENO Foundation, 1985 and 1995
editions. Media interviews and quotations included in numerous US and foreign
newspapers among them: The
Journal of Commerce, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Oregonian, USA
Today, and
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