Chabahar Free Zone
Your bridge to the Middle East and central Asia
INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES
IN
CHABAHAR FREE ZONE (CFZ)
Economic advantages
Possessing the most important geo economical location in the Middle East region:
Location at The most secure and Closest route to central Asia and Afghanistan market
Proximity to over populated growing economies of south Asia
Location at the only ocean port of Iran with direct link to the country's mainland
Proximity to the largest energy resources of the world
Location far from the crisis points of the Persian gulf out of the strait of hormuz
Cost advantages:
Cheap energy
Low wage structure
Shortened bureaucratic process
Exemption from import-export formalities of the mainland
Duty-free import of machines, equipments and raw materials.
No duty on exporting and transiting goods to foreign countries.
Duty reduction on exporting CFZ made value added goods to the mainland
Double taxation agreements with some countries are in force.
Purchasing or Leasing out of land, manufacturing halls, warehousing facilities and service
sites at low prices
Corporate advantages:
100% foreign ownership on investment
100%repatriation of capital and profit
15 years tax holiday extendable to another 15 years
Comparative advantages and investment opportunities in CFZ
Investment opportunities
Comparative advantages
Labor intensive industries
Low labor cost
Energy intensive industries, energy
storage and transshipment
Proximity to energy resources and
consumption markets such as India, china
and Pakistan
Consumer industries, logistics services
and international transportation
Proximity to growing consumer markets in
the middle east, south Asia ,central Asia
and Afghanistan
Ship building &repair
Proximity to international shipping lines
Fisheries industries
Access to vast resources of fish in Indian
ocean, and Oman gulf
Agriculture processing industries
close access to some agriculture products
such as date palms
Mineral processing