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Hamriyah

Hamriyah Free Zone

2–4 weeks to licence Hamriyah Port 100% foreign

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.

What to watch. Genuinely industrial. There is no reason for an office business to be here and the surroundings will make that obvious on day one.

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

Each one opens a page on that activity — the UAE definition, how it is classified, and the approvals it needs beyond a trade licence.

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
Land and warehousing in Hamriyah

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.