Ras Al Khaimah · Free zone
RAKEZ
Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone
The honest read
What it is actually good at.
Unusually broad — the same authority licenses a one-person consultancy and a ceramics factory, and does both competently. Industrial leasing here is the cheapest serious option in the UAE, which is why a good deal of regional manufacturing has quietly moved north.
Who is actually based here
Manufacturers, industrial operations, construction materials, and a large population of service companies on desk packages.
What it costs
Exceptionally broad. Desk packages compete with the cheapest zones while industrial land is the most competitive serious leasing in the country.
How banks receive it
Reasonable. RAKEZ is well known and better received than the smallest northern zones.
Commonly licensed here
- Emirate
- Ras Al Khaimah
- Type
- Free zone
- Location
- Al Hamra / Al Ghail
- Established
- 2017
- Licence issuance
- 5–10 days
- Residence visas
- From 1 on desk packages to unlimited on industrial land
- Ownership
- 100% foreign
- Premises
- Desks, offices, warehouses, industrial land, labour accommodation
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.
RAKEZ 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. Ras Al Khaimah is where those questions get answered.
An emirate built on industry and, increasingly, tourism — quarrying, ceramics and manufacturing inland, with hotels and the Jebel Jais development in the mountains. What RAKEZ itself offers by way of premises: Desks, offices, warehouses, industrial land, labour accommodation.
- District
- Ras Al Khaimah
- Typical rent
- The cheapest serious industrial leasing in the UAE
- Licence type there
- Mixed
Questions
It offers the most competitive industrial leasing in the UAE, which is why a good deal of regional manufacturing has moved north.
Yes. The same authority licenses a one-person consultancy and a ceramics factory, which is unusual.
About an hour. Fine for a factory whose output leaves by truck; a real obstacle for a client-facing business.