The Aden Free Zone (AFZ) has many advantages not found together anywhere else in the region:

• Distinctive geographical location
  
  
• Natural port approach up to 40 m deep with easily-dredged channels
  
  
• Highly developed pilotage facilities for navigation
  
  
• Abundant land areas of about 325 square km for expansion and development.
  
  
• Growing markets of over 200 million consumers nearby in the rapidly expanding Gulf Co-operation Council economies and other regional states.
  
  
• Warehousing and distribution zone facilities convenient for Africa, the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf.
  
  
• Availability of abundant cost-effective local human resources.

• The southern gateway to the booming Arabian peninsula.
  
  
• Crossroads of the East Africa and Middle East regions.
  
  
• Yemen’s leading business center.
  
  
• A magnificent protected natural harbor.
  
  
• A business tradition dating back many centuries.
  
  
• At the heart of trade routes linking Europe with South Asia and the Far East.