Salalah Free Zone participates at SITL Dubai

The three day event is being organized to bring together major international organizations in transport and logistics. Salalah Free Zone was there promoting SFZ as key attractive business destination for international investments and projects.

Salalah Free Zone was established by Royal Decree in 2006, and is now is moving towards attracting added value projects and investors to the Sultanate of Oman. It's CEO Eng. Awadh Salim Al Shanfari says that Salalah Free Zone has been successful in hosting many key investments in the Zone. in different business segments, and is now active in contacting other international potential investors to accommodate them at the new developed Phases of Salalah Free Zone. The new developed phase will include over 500 hectares of land, which will offer a mix of light industrial & manufacturing, logistics, IT, Offices & Business Parks and warehousing facilities.

The overall plan as stated by Eng. Awadh however is to develop a number of phases over an area of 3000 hectares, attracting a diverse mix of tenants from across the globe. Salalah Free Zone aims to provide facilities, services, partnership & support and infrastructures to create a world class Free Zone.

The changing nature of the global business lead to change strategy of many free zones around the world. However, Salalah Free Zone can offer unrivalled combination of location, incentives, infrastructure and other economic factors that make it more attractive for projects and investments.

Oman has a highly liberalized market, well established laws and regulations and has invested heavily in economic diversification. Already Salalah Free Zone has attracted investment of over $2bn and expected to host over $6bn worth of investments in the next 5 years.