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Your one-stop-shop into the Gateway. drs. Greg Peterson Managing Director Free 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. FreeZone Aruba NV.
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Your one-stop-shop into the Gateway drs. Greg Peterson Managing Director Free 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
FreeZoneArubaNV • 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 system account 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 (vrijevestiging)
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: g.peterson@fzanv.com • Telephone: (+297) 5820909 • Address: Free Zone Aruba (FZA) NV AvenidoMilio Croes 118A PO Box 225 Dakota Aruba