The Port System Authority of the Adriatic Sea Orientale has launched the tender for the expansion and modernization of Gate IV, which is the main access gate at the port of Trieste. The project, co-funded by the Programme Interreg VI-A Italy-Croatia 2021-2027, provides for the implementation of an integrated gate system that will combine components digital and digital infrastructure, allowing by 2026 the full digitization of customs, logistics and security procedures. The goal is to improve transit times, efficiency controls and quality in the management of flows, while reducing the margin of error in management processes. The new system will make it possible to collect and analyse data on the transit of vehicles, goods and people, promoting a flood of integration with the port's telematic infrastructures.

The tender procedure for feasibility design (PFTE) provides for a basic auction amount of 222 thousand euros, for a total of 247 thousand euros. The design will concern both physical and including software, hardware, interoperability services and safety coordination in the design phase. On infrastructure plan, the planned interventions - subject of the design - will include, in addition to technological elements (such as OCR cameras, QR/barcode scanners, software, etc.), even a series of changes to the layout of the gate: the increase in the number of lanes entrance to improve vehicular flow; the optimization of lengths to avoid congestion on major roads Trieste; the functional separation between lanes, so as to ensure efficient outflow without interference between media subject to controls and those exempt; the preparation of a configuration that allows future extensions of the structure.

The design process will involve, in addition to the competent institutions - Customs and Monopolies Agency, Guardia di Finanza, Harbour Master's Office, Border Police - also the economic categories representative of the users of the port. At the same time, in terms of the management of flows, the important results already achieved will be exploited achieved with the Port Community System and the related procedures digitized documentation.