Sharjah · Free zone
Hamriyah
Hamriyah Free Zone
The honest read
What it is actually good at.
Heavy industry with its own deep-water port and an oil and gas supply-chain cluster that has been there thirty years. Industrial land at a fraction of Jebel Ali rates, twenty minutes further up the coast.
Who is actually based here
Oil and gas services, steel and metals, petrochemicals, marine services and heavy fabrication — a cluster thirty years in the making.
What it costs
Industrial land at a fraction of Jebel Ali rates, with its own deep-water port and worker accommodation available.
How banks receive it
Fine for established industrial operations; new entrants face standard diligence.
Commonly licensed here
- Emirate
- Sharjah
- Type
- Free zone
- Location
- Hamriyah Port
- Established
- 1995
- Licence issuance
- 2–4 weeks
- Residence visas
- Scales with leased space; labour accommodation available
- Ownership
- 100% foreign
- Premises
- Land plots, warehouses, on-site labour housing
Timelines, quotas and package contents are indicative and change without notice. We confirm every one against the current schedule before you commit to anything.
Premises
Where the office actually goes.
Hamriyah is industrial estate rather than office district. What decides the site is throughput: distance to the port or the airport, the load the floor takes, power to the plot, and where the workforce sleeps. Hamriyah is where those questions get answered.
A deep-water port and heavy industrial zone on the Sharjah coast, with a thirty-year oil and gas services cluster around it. What Hamriyah itself offers by way of premises: Land plots, warehouses, on-site labour housing.
- District
- Hamriyah, Sharjah
- Typical rent
- Industrial land at a fraction of Jebel Ali rates, with its own deep-water port
- Licence type there
- Free zone
Questions
Considerably, for industrial land. The trade-off is a smaller port and less global connectivity.
Heavy industry, oil and gas services and anything needing deep-water port access at a competitive cost.
Yes, which is a practical necessity for the labour-intensive industries there.