SFM provides professional services for new business setup in UAE Free Zones, encompassing enterprises operating in various sectors and industries throughout the country. Free Zones (also known as Free Trade Zones) are intended to stimulate international trade by providing foreign investors with 100 percent ownership and the convenience of a single point of contact for administration. Once your firm is up and running in the UAE, you may apply for a UAE residency visa and hire employees. You can also apply for UAE residency permits for dependents such as family members.
The UAE has around 50 free zones that encompass all major commercial areas. Why should you think about Dubai South?
Dubai South has been precisely planned to support the growth of all businesses, from start-ups to SMEs. The free zone provides comprehensive turnkey business services, low-cost office solutions, and is well matched to meet the demands of global businesses.
The aims of Dubai South are to use the strategic location linking both air and sea mega ports by developing a'self-sustaining' urban destination to enable businesses, families, and individuals to flourish and succeed, making it a perfect site to incorporate your free zone firm.
Other benefits of Dubai South Free Zone include
- 100% foreign ownership
- 100% tax free operations
- 100% repatriation of capital as well as profits
- 0% tax as well as no duty tax for import and export
- Strong privacy
- Quick formation time of 12 days
- Residency visa issuance is possible
Dubai South is divided into eight districts: logistics (including Al Maktoum International Airport), aviation (including Al Maktoum International Airport), humanitarian, residential, commercial, leisure, exhibition, and commercial. Dubai Logistics City and Aviation City are both concerned with company forms. Licenses like Professional License are available in each of these free zones, and firms registering must be related to the free zone in issue. In this article, we will discuss a couple of such areas and why Dubai South is an ideal choice for free zone business creation.
Mohammed bin Rashid Aerospace hub
The Mohammed bin Rashid Aerospace hub, formerly known as the aviation district, is focused toward the aviation industry and includes a 6.7-square-kilometer integrated aviation eco system. It features free zone sections designated for MROs, FBOs, light industries, education, and R&D. The Dubai Airshow, the Middle East Business Aviation Show, and the VIP Terminal are also located in the neighbourhood.
Because the hub is close to Al Maktoum International Airport, it is an ideal location for enterprises.
Logistics district
The logistics zone in Dubai South provides a multimodal platform for supply chain firms. Companies may take advantage of Dubai's outstanding geographical location by utilising integrated port, aviation, and road alternatives.
A logistics licence in Dubai South free zone will allow for the provision of specified logistical services (e.g. storage, transportation, distribution, sorting, forwarding and clearing activities, order management, inventory management etc.).
The Business Park
The business park at Dubai South free zone provides flexible office spaces to fit any demand, from startups to well-established businesses. The following licences are available:
- Trade License: This license allows for the import/export and distribution of the above-mentioned items.
- Industrial License: The industrial license will allow the operation of light manufacturing activities (such as blending, mixing, purifying, assembling, forming, repacking, or wrapping products) using hand labour or quiet machinery in a manner that does not produce smoke, gas fumes, heat, light, or any other undesirable by-products. Please keep in mind that industrial licenses will not be awarded unless extensive environmental impact investigations and analyses have been completed.
- Service License: This allows the provision of the services indicated in the licence in question, but only within the DWC Free Zone, and it is only possible elsewhere in the UAE with the acquisition of supplementary local licenses in specific jurisdictions. Such licences are granted to Free Zone Enterprises that provide services to the logistics industry, such as consultation and training, as well as any other connected activity.
All enterprises operating in Dubai South must have a physical presence in the free zone and be registered as either a branch of an existing organisation or as a new DWC limited liability company. If all security checks, paperwork, and fees are approved, incorporation can be completed in as little as one day.
Please contact us for more information about free zone company formation in Dubai.
