FREE ZONE FILE
Abu Dhabi Airports Free Zone
What we think
Publishes its full company and licensing regulations, including a minimum share capital of AED 150,000, and then puts the fees and tariffs portal behind a login that returns an access error. The rules are public, the prices are not.
Publishes its headline prices, but not everythingPackages
No package price is published. The Fees and Tariffs portal returns an access error without a login, so no licence price could be read from an official source.
Where each line was read: product page, a commercial commitment on the zone's own site. Official document, a downloadable schedule, regulation or terms. Blog only, an article on the zone's site, editorial and not contractual. Not published, the zone does not say.
Visas
Offices and desks
Year two, and closing down
The two figures nobody advertises. A cheap first year means nothing if year two doubles, and nothing at all if leaving costs a fortune.
Renewal, per year
Behind the gated fees portal.
Closing the company
Behind the gated fees portal.
Other fees and penalties
Binding terms
- Minimum share capital is AED 150,000 under the published company regulations.
- The free zone covers both Abu Dhabi International Airport and Al Ain.
- The company regulations set out licensing, governance and filing duties in full.
What this zone does not publish
- Licence price, renewal price and closure cost.
- Employee visa cost and visa quota.
- Office, warehouse and land rents.
- Trade name reservation fee.
- Late renewal penalties.
- Any agent or referral commission terms.
Where every figure above comes from
- adafz.ae, company regulations
- adafz.ae, fees and tariffs portal, access restricted
Read on the zone's official site on 13 aout 2026. We print the addresses rather than link them, so you can check any figure word for word, and so this page stays a comparison rather than a doorway.
AED 1,000 back on this zone
This zone pays us an introduction fee, and we hand AED 1,000 of it back to you once your trade licence has actually been issued. You pay the zone exactly what you would pay going direct, we never take a dirham from you, and the cashback is only due if you filled in the Free Zone Radar form first.
Figures quoted from the zone are left in the language the zone published them in, so you can check them word for word. This file is available in English and French. The comparator itself is in Arabic too.