Key Investment Advantages

Airport City Free Zone / Free Trade Zone / Key Investment Advantages

Goals
To reduce cost of capital goods and consumable goods

To improve life standards

To enhance welfare

To generate productive jobs

To develop airport city sustainably
About free trade zone
Establishment of IKAC in an area of 1500ha under article 166 of Fifth National Program of Development and by virtue of large-scale national policy of becoming cargo hub and second passenger hub in the Middle East with special focus on hosting businesses, production and industrial activities and proper environment for investments has been put on the top agenda of Ministry of Roads and Urban Planning as a grand national project.

Necessities for enactment of article166:

Necessity to support the population of 25 million living surrounding the airport city and neighboring provinces based upon free zone model

To foster the objective to become a logistic and passenger hub in the Middle East

Creation of economic and transportation potentials needed to set up a free zone at entrance gate of Iran and in the vicinity of an international airport.

Desire of great many transportation companies to take advantage of a free zone, investment in airport city free zone and establishment of dry port.

High potential for investment of great local and international companies because of its closeness to capital city and access to IKAC surrounding areas.

Expansion of the aviation-related businesses across the world and necessity to redefine these businesses based upon airport city free zone model.

Concentration of supply chain

Possibility to define businesses based upon free zone model such as banking, insurance and new industries.
Advantages
Tax exemptions

Special visa regulations

Invetment, labor, money and banking special regulations

Creation of value added

Customs dues exemption within customs area
Business Focus
Administrative site comprises of offices, bank, insurance, capital market, media city, e-city (data center)

conference center and hotel

Support services, supply and production chain (smart warehouses and customs procedures), multifarious transportation system (aerial, rail and road)

Research and development centers and IT

Trade centers inducing carpet city, jewelry and precious stones center, cosmetics centers

international exhibitions center

innovative industries center, media etc.
Pioneer Phase of Free Zone

Propellant phase of the IKAC, over an area of 240h a, known as eastern business park is located at the southeast side of the IKAC. It’s appropriate topology, easy access to infrastructures and proper access to IKAC offices made the planners choose this phase for development of free zone.

In order to attract businesses, the free zone has been divided into four categories:

Administrative- trade (40 ha)

Administrative-trade tower, international financial center including bank, money exchange and insurance, conference center and hotel, data center, carpet and jewelry center

Innovative cultural-artistic (7.4ha)

Drama and visual arts, film, museum, gallery, library, handicraft, animation, computer graphic, tourism, advertising and marketing, media, publication.

high tech (28.2 ha)

Biotechnology, advanced matters and polymer products, electrical and electronic hardware, ICT, advanced machineries, advanced pharmacies, medical equipment, advanced products and other areas of activities and commercialization services.

logistic and production (87 ha)

Warehouse, distribution, packing, assemblage, production of light-weight industries with high VAT using technology for exportation.
Key Investment Advantages
Integrated One-Stop Services for efficient business establishment and development.

Iran’s first Free Zone based on an air transport-driven economy, strategically located adjacent to the Tehran metropolitan area.

Availability of vast and dispute-free land supported by comprehensive infrastructure and utility services.

Direct access to Iran’s largest consumer and business market, encompassing an 80-million domestic market and a 400-million regional market across neighboring countries.

Connectivity to a comprehensive international multimodal transportation network, integrating air, rail, and road transport.

Direct access to the international East-West and North-South transport corridors.

Direct links to Iran’s key northern and southern seaports, including Bandar Abbas, Chabahar, Bushehr, Khorramshahr, Amirabad and Anzali.

Direct connection to Iran’s national railway network.

Direct connectivity to Tehran’s Metro network.

Planned connection to the Tehran-Qom-Isfahan High-Speed Rail Network.


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Necessities for enactment of article166:

Administrative- trade (40 ha)

Innovative cultural-artistic (7.4ha)

high tech (28.2 ha)

logistic and production (87 ha)