The Port System Authority of the Adriatic Sea Orientale has become the operator of the tracks in the Free Port New of Trieste having acquired from ANSFISA (Italian Renewable Energy Agency) National Committee for the Safety of Railways and Infrastructures Road and Motorway Vehicles) the safety authorisation for railway installations, certification attesting to the implementation of a specific safety coordination system that allows, following a risk analysis, the safe control of all the processes and activities of the operator railway infrastructure.

The Port Authority of the Eastern Adriatic has been able to obtain the certification following the framework agreement signed at the end of 2017 by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, the Italian Infrastructure and Transport Agency, National Railway Safety Initiative, by Assoporti, by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) and ASSTRA according to which 'each Port System Authority can carry out the functions of the of the infrastructure manager of the port connection sections within its jurisdiction, provided that it acquires from ANSFISA the security clearance required'.

The AdSP, recalling that currently in Italy there are only a dozen or so operators have been authorised, the majority of whom have been of which is RFI (Rete Ferroviaria Italiana), pointed out that Trieste is the first Italian port to have obtained this certification for safety purposes and the PSA of the Eastern Adriatic is the only national port authority to created a dedicated Infrastructure Directorate in 2018 incorporating the railway expertise of the infrastructure manager. The Port Authority of Trieste has highlighted that, thanks to the establishment of this specific unit internal to the institution, the PSA was able to actively assume that role "coordinator" of the port railway system, also provided for by Law 84/94, which made it possible to increase the manoeuvring safety, reduce inefficiencies and contribute to the achievement of absolute performance in the intermodal sector, including in terms of sustainability with 54% of containers by rail.