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Your one-stop-shop into the Gateway
drs. Greg PetersonManaging DirectorFree Zone Aruba NV
Presentation
• Free Zone Aruba (FZA) NV• What do we offer?• What can you do at FZA?• Benefits• Opportunities • Logistics• Some ideas• Examples• Contact information
FreeZoneAruba NV
• 100% Government owned limited liability company
• Established since 1996• Stimulate import-export:– services, goods and light
industrial activities: Gateway
• Support sustainable development of Aruba
What do we offer?
• Fiscal and physical platform– License to operate– Property to construct facilities:
Barcadera• One-stop-shop model – in-house establishment systemaccount executives– Consultants / lawyers
• Simple and clear procedures for establishment
What can you do at FZA?
• Services (100% export)
• Trade (75/25)– Including drop shipments
• Light Industrial Activities (75/25)
• Combinations of the above
Benefits Free Zone Aruba 1
• 100% foreign ownership option– no local business partner required
• A foreign managing director does not need to apply for a directors’ license• The Business Establishment
Ordinance does not apply to free zone companies– “Vestigingsverordening”
• In-house licensing - no charge / notary costs
• Swift license expansion (24 hours)
Benefits Free Zone Aruba 2
• No minimum investment required• No minimum amount of employees
required
• Island wide location establishment choice for services companies (vrije vestiging)
Benefits Free Zone Aruba 3
• Free Zone Facility Charge (FFC) 0.75%– turnover
• 2% annual profit tax• 0% import duties on import-export goods• 0% import duties on materials for facility
construction, machinery, equipment, etc.• 0% turnover tax • Exemption from foreign exchange
provision
Opportunities• Regional Headquarters /
Showcase• Sustainable
technologies / Green energy
• High quality goods and services
• Multi-destination strategy
Logistics
• Logistics: goods and services– Regional transit/storage of highly
specialized internationally traded goods– Drop shipments– AAA NV (Airport) and APA NV (Harbor)– New Multi-Cargo Sea Terminal at
Barcadera
• Hurricane belt
Some ideas• Parts storage and maintenance function• Export of knowledge: engineering,
consulting, architecture, marketing, agriculture (green house technology etc.), tourism related experience, medical tourism, mining, water management, biotechnology, etc. etc.
• Export of knowledge includes training– Abroad, but also locally
Examples
• Solar energy project• Green House Technology• Creative Industry: Music• Mining (under water /
Boskalis)• Ship maintenance• Water
We will one-stop-shop you
into the gateway!
Contact Information
• Website: www.freezonearuba.com
• E-mail: [email protected]
• Telephone: (+297) 5820909
• Address: Free Zone Aruba (FZA) NVAvenido Milio Croes 118APO Box 225DakotaAruba
