The Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone will become the centre of business excellence in the Northern Emirates. With upgrades in infrastructure, aggressive marketing, a keen interest in promoting e-commerce entrepreneurship, Ras Al Khaimah will be known as a region where businesses are welcome, successful, and flourishing.

Free Trade Zone Plan:

Business Park

The Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone Business Park is centrally located in the heart of Ras Al Khamiah's vibrant business district. The Business Park offices are collocated within the Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone Authority headquarters, making the conduct of business with the Free Trade Authority staff extremely convenient.

The Business Park in Ras Al Khaimah is, by design, located between the Industrial Park, 20 kilometers to the north, and the Technology Park, 15 kilometers to the south. Its proximity to the Emirate's Emiri Diwan and other government centers of activity is an additional advantage.
Business Park
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As if these convenient benefits were not enough, the Business Park is just a short walk from the 1,600m2 Ras Al Khaimah exhibition hall and the new Manar Mall, a modern shopping and entertainment complex, and a 5 star hotel are only minutes away.

Each office in the Business Park has three Etisalat connections for telephone, Internet, and/or fax and sports an elegant interior design. The Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone Authority provides all utilities and cleaning services for each office and encourages Business Park tenants to call on the Free Zone Authority staff at time they need assistance.

The Industrial Park

The Industrial Park is located along the Ras Al Khaimah coastal road approximately 15 kilometers north of Ras Al Khaimah and immediately adjacent to Hulaylah Island, site of the 100 hectare second-phase, and approximately 6 kilometers from Port Saqr.

Due to the coastal location of the site, the Industrial Park site was raised three meters above the high tide level for development. This area was grade levelled and fenced. The unfilled area around the site was retained as wetlands to protect a native stand of Mangrove trees and to provide a pleasant and ecologically friendly environment in which to work.
Location Plan
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The Industrial Park is subdivided to provide a variety of plot sizes ranging from 400m2 to 3800m2. Plots may be consolidated to create larger parcels to accommodate investors' requirements. Plots are fully serviced with water, electricity, and telecommunications. To support companies locating at the Industrial Park, employee accommodations and a Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone Administrative and Service Support Center is located inside the Park. Additional services are planned outside the perimeter and will include a petrol station and restaurants.

Parking and Loading Requirements
All plots will have sufficient off-street parking and loading areas to meet the demands of the users. Off-street parking and loading areas shall be designed and maintained to ensure that parking, maneuvering and loading shall not occur within the street right-of-way. A minimum of 1 parking space per 100 square meters of gross floor area shall be provided.

Development Controls
Phase One of the Industrial Park was developed for light to medium industry and associated warehousing, storage, and transportation activities. Land uses permitted in this portion of the Industrial Park are those that will not adversely affect adjacent development or impact the environmental quality of the area. An environmental impact statement, written by qualified environmental professionals, must accompany all applications for industrial and manufacturing activities. In general, no activities will be approved that have detrimental impacts to the environment and or the health safety and general welfare of the public.

Industrial Park Permitted Uses
The following uses are examples that may be considered to operate within the Industrial Park:

• Company Headquarters.
  
• Research and development activities and laboratories.
  
• Commercial service business (office equipment repair, commercial art).
  
• Storage and Warehousing
  
• Formal warehousing and industrial support services
  
• Maintenance and repair
  
• Construction support services
  
• Manufacturing, processing, or assembly
  
• Food products excluding slaughter, stock yards and feed lots
  
• Lumber and wood products;
  
• Apparel and finished textile products
  
• Furniture and fixtures
  
• Processing or assembly of chemical and allied products
  
• Processing or assembly of rubber products Industrial machinery and equipment
  
• Electronic or other electric equipment
  
• Fabricated metal products
  
• Processing stone, clay and glass products
  
• Photoengraving, printing, publishing and bookbinding
  
• Photographic and optical products or equipment and
  
• Glass edging and silvering
  
• Miscellaneous products including abrasives, cosmetics and toiletries, pharmaceuticals, jewellery, musical
• instruments, office supplies, toys, and sporting goods
  
• Food service and eating facilities
  
• Employee accommodations for employees working in the Industrial Park
  
• Public Facilities for health care and religious activities
  
  
  Industrial Park Prohibited Uses
  The following operations and uses shall not be permitted on property within the Industrial Park boundaries:
  
  
• Junkyards or open-air recycling facilities
  
• Refining of petroleum products or storage
  
• Dumping, disposal, incineration or reduction of garbage, sewage, dead animals, or other refuse
  
• Fat rendering
  
• Stockyards or slaughter of animals
  
• Truck storage terminals

Technology Park

The 71 hectare Technology Park is located in an area of Ras Al Khaimah that is not only developing as a manufacturing area but as a recreational tourist area. The Park is adjacent to the Ras Al Khaimah Ceramics Factory and other light manufacturing businesses. The Al Hamra Development located across the Emirates Highway, is a 325-hectare waterfront recreational and residential development that includes a hotel, waterfront villas, marina and golf course.

The proximity of the Technology Park to the Emirates Highway makes it readily accessible to the City Center, International Airport, Port Saqr, and destinations southward, such as Dubai.

The Technology Park is designed to separate non-compatible uses and provides plots configured to accommodate investors' needs. Plots may be further subdivided or consolidated to meet development requirements. Plots will be fully served with water, electricity, and telecommunications. To support companies locating at the Technology Park, employee accommodations and a Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone Administrative and Service Support Center will be located inside the Park.


Development Controls
The Technology Park is intended to accommodate manufacturing and assembly companies. The Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone Authority assumes that free zone companies will incorporate capital-intensive and high technology applications in their manufacturing and assembly processes in addition to associated warehousing, storage, and transportation activities.

Industrial property development should be of high visual quality and minimal environmental impacts. Uses permitted within the Technology Park boundaries are those that can be performed or carried out entirely within a building. Building designs and construction must ensure that company operations and uses do not adversely impact adjacent development or property, have no detrimental effects on the environment, and do not affect the health safety and general welfare of the public. Adverse impacts include vibration, sound, electromechanical disturbances, electro-magnetic disturbances, radiation, air and water pollution, dust, emissions of odorous, toxic or non-toxic matter, nor create the potential for explosion.


Technology Park Permitted Uses
The following uses are examples that may be considered to operate within the Technology Park boundaries:

• Company Headquarters
  
• Administrative and professional offices
  
• Research and development activities and laboratories
  
• Commercial services and business
  
• Manufacturing, processing, and assembly activities
  
• Apparel and finished textile products
  
• Lumber and wood products
  
• Furniture and fixtures
  
• Processing and assembly of plastic and rubber products
  
• Electronics and other electrical products
  
• Transportation equipment
  
• Photographic and optical equipment
  
• Medical and Dental Equipment
  
• Cosmetics, toiletries, pharmaceuticals, electronics, glass and clay products
  
• Manufacturing, processing, or assembly of
  
• Food products
  
• Paper and allied products
  
• Chemical and allied products
  
• Plastic and rubber products
  
• Processing stone clay, and glass products
  
• Photoengraving, printing, publishing and bookbinding
  
• Storage and warehousing
  
• Motor freight terminal
  
• Warehousing and distribution centers for products produced in the Park
  
• Restaurants, food service and eating facilities
  
• Employee Accommodations for workers within the Park
  
• Public facilities for health care and religious activities.
  
  
  Technology Park Prohibited Uses
  The following operations and uses shall not be considered to operate on property within the Technology Park boundaries:
• Junkyards or open-air recycling facilities
  
• Refining of petroleum products or storage
  
• Dumping, disposal, incineration or reduction of garbage, sewage, dead animal or other refuse
  
• Fat rendering
  
• Stockyards or slaughter of animals
  
• Truck storage terminals