Dubai South Free Zone Guide 2026: Setup, Costs and Dubai Logistics City

Dubai South is the 145 sq km free zone city around Al Maktoum International Airport, made up of the Logistics District (still widely called Dubai Logistics City), the Aviation District, the Business Park Free Zone and EZDubai. It offers 100% foreign ownership, trading, service, industrial and e-commerce licences, and a bonded customs corridor to Jebel Ali Port.

Dubai South is the free zone city built around Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC) — 145 square kilometres of master-planned districts that began life in 2006 as Dubai World Central and took its current name in 2015. Its commercial engine rooms are the Logistics District, still widely known by its original name Dubai Logistics City, the Aviation District, the Business Park Free Zone and EZDubai, the dedicated e-commerce zone.

A Dubai South company setup gets 100% foreign ownership, a licence matched to one of those districts, and access to the piece of infrastructure that genuinely sets the zone apart: a bonded customs corridor to Jebel Ali Port that collapses sea-air cargo transfer into a matter of hours. This guide, updated July 2026, covers what sits where, what a Dubai South free zone licence involves, what the costs are built from, and how the tax position really works — with the comparison points against JAFZA and the wider Dubai free zone landscape where they matter.

From Dubai World Central to Dubai South

The project was announced in 2006 as Dubai World Central: a purpose-built aerotropolis around a new mega-airport, planned as the long-term successor to the space-constrained Dubai International. The 2015 rebrand to Dubai South repositioned it as a city rather than a cargo project — residential districts, the Expo 2020 site on its flank, and a business ecosystem alongside the runways.

The strategic bet became concrete in April 2024, when the Dubai government announced approval of a AED 128 billion expansion of Al Maktoum International — a programme publicly targeted at making DWC the largest airport in the world and, over time, the emirate’s primary aviation hub. For anyone weighing a 10-year operational decision, that announcement is the single most important fact about the zone: the infrastructure gravity is moving toward Dubai South, with airlines, MRO operators and logistics players sequencing their own moves around it.

AED 128bn

Al Maktoum International expansion approved by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum on 28 April 2024, per the Dubai Media Office

The expansion, in the government’s own figures

Element	Approved figure	Source
Cost of the new passenger terminals	AED 128 billion	Dubai Media Office, 28 April 2024
Passenger capacity at full operation	260 million a year	Dubai Media Office, as above
Cargo capacity at full operation	12 million tonnes a year	Dubai Media Office, as above
Runways	Five parallel runways	Dubai Media Office, as above
Aircraft contact stands	400	Dubai Media Office, as above
Stated intent for the surrounding area	An entire city around the airport in Dubai South, with housing demand for a million people	Dubai Media Office, as above
Construction start	Ordered to begin immediately on approval	Dubai Media Office, as above

Every figure quoted from the Dubai Media Office record of the approval on 28 April 2024. Last verified 4 August 2026. Delivery schedules for individual phases are published by Dubai Airports and Dubai South separately and should be checked against your own occupancy timeline.

The cargo line is the one that matters commercially. Twelve million tonnes a year is a scale that reshapes air freight pricing in the region, and it is the reason freight forwarders and 3PLs are taking positions in the Logistics District well ahead of the terminals opening.

The districts: what actually sits where

Logistics District (Dubai Logistics City). The original core, and the reason most operating businesses look at the zone. It clusters bonded warehousing, freight forwarders, 3PLs and distribution centres directly against the airport’s cargo terminals. The searches for “dubai logistics city” that still outnumber searches for the zone’s official name are pointed here.

Aviation District. Hangars, MRO, business aviation, aircraft trading and training operations with airside access at DWC. Activities with an aircraft in the middle of them get licensed here.

Business Park Free Zone. The office district near the passenger terminal — consulting, tech, trading head offices and regional HQs that want the Dubai South licence without a warehouse attached.

EZDubai. The e-commerce zone carved out of the Logistics District, purpose-built for fulfilment centres and last-mile operators, with anchor facilities from major regional and global players. For an online retailer whose margins live and die on delivery times, it is the most literal answer the UAE offers.

Expo City Dubai — the converted Expo 2020 site — borders Dubai South but runs under its own separate authority. Do not conflate the licences.

District	Built for	Typical licence	Facility you will need	The reason to be here
Logistics District (Dubai Logistics City)	Freight, 3PL, distribution, bonded storage	Trading, industrial, service	Warehouse or land plot	Airside adjacency plus the Jebel Ali corridor
Aviation District	MRO, business aviation, aircraft trading, training	Service, industrial	Hangar or airside facility	Airside access at DWC
Business Park Free Zone	Consulting, tech, trading head offices, regional HQ	Service, trading	Office or co-working	A Dubai South licence without a warehouse
EZDubai	E-commerce fulfilment and last-mile	E-commerce, trading	Fulfilment warehouse	Purpose-built for online retail flows
Residential and commercial districts	Housing and amenity for the above	Not a business licence	Not applicable	Staff accommodation near the operation

District structure as published by Dubai South. Licence categories and facility requirements should be confirmed with the authority for your specific activity. Last reviewed 4 August 2026.

The district you sit in is not a cosmetic choice. It decides which activities the authority will licence, what facility you must lease, and — through the Designated Zone question further down — how goods moving through your unit are treated for VAT.

The Jebel Ali corridor: the zone’s real moat

Dubai South’s defining piece of plumbing is the bonded logistics corridor linking Jebel Ali Port with Al Maktoum’s cargo side. Goods move between ship and aircraft inside a single customs envelope — no import declaration at one end and re-export at the other — which cuts sea-air transfer times from the better part of a day to a few hours and removes a layer of duty and paperwork friction entirely.

For transhipment traders, regional distribution hubs and anyone running sea-air product flows, this corridor is the argument. It pairs the world’s biggest port in the region with the airport being scaled to match, and a Dubai South warehouse sits in the middle of that sentence. The customs mechanics of operating this way — declarations, bonded movements, duty suspension — are the same e-Mirsal 2 machinery we unpack in our Dubai customs registration guide.

Dubai South company setup: licences, entities and process

Dubai South issues trading, service, industrial and e-commerce licences, held by either a free zone limited liability company (DWC-LLC) or a branch of an existing UAE or foreign company. Foreign ownership is 100% across the board, with no local partner or agent.

The setup sequence runs the standard free zone shape: activity and licence selection, name reservation and initial approval, shareholder documents (passport copies, and corporate documents — attested where the shareholder is a foreign company), lease of a facility matched to the licence, then licence issuance, establishment card and visa processing. Straightforward office-based setups complete in days; warehouse leases, industrial fit-outs and aviation activities needing regulator sign-off run longer. Visa quota follows the facility, as everywhere in the UAE — a flexi-desk carries a small allocation, warehouses scale on area.

Step	Who controls it	What it produces	Where it stalls
1. Fix activity and licence type	You	The shortlist of districts that can licence you	Deciding the business model during the application
2. Trade name reservation and initial approval	Dubai South	Approval to proceed	Near-identical names; disallowed words
3. Shareholder and manager documents	You and your home-country notary	An accepted application	Attestation and legalisation for corporate shareholders
4. Facility selection and lease	You and Dubai South	The visa quota you can hold	Warehouse availability and fit-out lead time
5. Aviation or sector approval	The relevant regulator	Permission to conduct the activity	Entirely outside the zone’s control
6. Licence issuance	Dubai South	The trade licence	Any of steps 2 to 5 being incomplete
7. Establishment card	Dubai South and immigration	The right to sponsor anyone	Cannot start before step 6
8. Customs client code	Dubai Customs	The ability to clear goods	Trade licence activity must support import and export
9. Bank account	The bank	An operating account	Activity-to-narrative mismatch at interview
10. Residence visas	Immigration and the health authority	Residency for shareholders and staff	Medical and Emirates ID appointment slots
11. Corporate tax registration	You, on the FTA’s clock	A corporate tax TRN	Leaving it until the first return is due

Sequence reflects Dubai South’s published licensing process together with the federal customs, immigration and tax steps that follow it. Last reviewed 4 August 2026.

Step 8 is specific to this zone’s tenant profile and is regularly left until goods are already in transit. A customs client code is registered against the trade licence, and the activity list on that licence has to support import and export before Dubai Customs will issue one. A logistics company that licensed only “logistics services” and forgot the trading activity discovers this at the worst possible moment. The licence-category question is worked through in our Dubai freezone license guide.

What Dubai South free zone licence cost is built from

Dubai South sells packages — licence, facility and visa eligibility bundled — and publishes current pricing through its own channels rather than a fixed public tariff, so any specific number you read on a third-party site deserves a verification call. What you can rely on is the structure of the cost stack:

• Licence and registration — the annual core, varying by licence type and activity count.
• Facility — the biggest swing factor. Co-working and small offices in the Business Park sit at one end; Logistics District warehouses and land plots are priced per project on size, height and specification.
• Immigration file and visas — establishment card, then per-visa costs for entry permit, medical, Emirates ID and stamping.
• Deposits and third-party approvals — utility and customs deposits for warehouse operators, plus regulator fees for aviation activities.

Entry office packages compete with mid-tier Dubai zones, and the zone runs promotional pricing cycles like all of its peers. The honest comparison is never year one — it is three years of licence renewals, facility rent and visa renewals, modelled against the same stack at JAFZA, DAFZA or a northern-emirates alternative like RAKEZ. Our UAE business setup cost calculator is built for exactly that three-year, all-in modelling, and for tailored numbers our business setup advisory team prices the shortlist zones side by side before you commit.

Line to price in writing	Office-based business	Warehouse-based business
Licence and registration, for your exact activity count	Applies	Applies
Facility rent and service charges	Co-working or office	Warehouse rent, height and specification drive it
Fit-out and racking	Rarely	Frequently the largest one-off line
Establishment card, issue and renewal	Applies	Applies
Per-visa immigration costs	Small headcount	Scales with warehouse staffing
Refundable deposits	Visa deposits	Visa, utility and customs deposits
Customs client code and broker fees	Only if importing	Always
Insurance	Basic	Goods in transit, stock and public liability
Aviation or sector regulator fees	Rarely	Only for aviation activities
Audit, where a QFZP claim is made	Applies	Applies
Year-two and year-three renewal figures	Applies	Applies, and rent escalation matters most here

Cost-line taxonomy for a Dubai South setup. We do not publish amounts: Dubai South prices by package and project and revises them on promotional cycles, so the only reliable figure is the one the authority quotes you in writing for your own specification. Last reviewed 4 August 2026.

Send that list to Dubai South and to two comparator zones as a single brief and compare the completed columns. It is the same method our Dubai mainland company formation cost guide applies to a Department of Economy and Tourism licence, and running both in parallel is the fastest way to find out whether a free zone address is worth the mainland invoicing constraint for your customer base.

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Every zone looks cheap in year one. Warehouse-based businesses should price year three — rent escalation, visa renewals and the second licence renewal — because that is the number the business actually lives with.

Corporate tax, VAT and the designated-zone question

The tax position is standard UAE, with the usual free-zone nuance. Corporate tax under Federal Decree-Law 47 of 2022 applies at 9% on taxable income above AED 375,000. The 0% rate exists only for a Qualifying Free Zone Person — qualifying activities, adequate substance inside the zone, audited financial statements, and de minimis limits on non-qualifying income. Logistics and distribution activities performed in a free zone feature prominently in the qualifying-activities framework, which makes Dubai South one of the zones where QFZP status is realistically attainable for genuine operators — but it is a status you maintain with evidence, not a default. The conditions are unpacked in our free zone corporate tax guide.

On VAT, registration triggers at AED 375,000 of taxable supplies like everywhere else. The designated-zone question — whether goods inside your fenced area sit outside the scope of UAE VAT for certain movements — is decided by the Cabinet Decision 59 of 2017 list and its amendments, which name specific zones rather than whole districts. Areas connected to Dubai Aviation City appear on that list; the correct move is to confirm the status of your specific plot with the authority and structure customs and invoicing flows accordingly, as we outline in the designated zone VAT guide.

The Qualifying Activities that matter to a Dubai South business

This is where Dubai South is genuinely well placed, and it is worth reading the operative list rather than a summary. Article 2(1) of Ministerial Decision 229 of 2025 — which repealed Ministerial Decision 265 of 2023 in full — names the activities from which a Qualifying Free Zone Person may derive qualifying income when transacting with a non-free-zone person.

Qualifying Activity	Relevance to Dubai South
Manufacturing of goods or materials	Industrial licences in the Logistics District
Processing of goods or materials	Value-added logistics: kitting, labelling, light assembly
Trading of Qualifying Commodities	Limited — this is DMCC’s core rather than Dubai South’s
Holding of shares and other securities for investment purposes	Business Park holding structures
Ownership, management and operation of Ships	Relevant to sea-air operators with vessel interests
Reinsurance services	Rare in this zone
Fund management services	Rare in this zone
Wealth and investment management services	Rare in this zone
Headquarter services to Related Parties	Business Park regional HQ structures
Treasury and financing services to Related Parties or for its own account	Group treasury run from a Business Park entity
Financing and leasing of Aircrafts	Directly on point for the Aviation District
Distribution of goods or materials in or from a Designated Zone	The central one — and it hinges on Designated Zone status
Logistics services	The other central one, and the reason the zone fits QFZP well
Activities ancillary to any of the above	Follows the main activity

Reproduced from Ministerial Decision No. 229 of 2025, Article 2(1). Last verified 4 August 2026. The relevance column is our commentary, not part of the Decision.

Two of those rows carry the zone’s whole tax case. “Logistics services” is a named Qualifying Activity in its own right, which puts a genuine freight or 3PL operation in Dubai South in a far better position than a consultancy in a cheaper zone. “Distribution of goods or materials in or from a Designated Zone” is the conditional one — the words matter, and they make the Designated Zone status of your specific plot a tax question rather than a customs footnote.

The other half of the test is what does not qualify. Article 2(2) treats transactions with natural persons as an Excluded Activity, with narrow carve-outs for ships, fund management, wealth management and aircraft leasing. For EZDubai tenants selling direct to UAE consumers, that single line usually decides the matter: the revenue is non-qualifying, the de minimis ceiling of the lower of 5% of total revenue or AED 5,000,000 is breached quickly, and Qualifying Free Zone Person status is the wrong plan rather than a difficult one.

The corporate tax numbers, from the instruments

What it governs	The position	Instrument
Standard corporate tax rates	0% up to AED 375,000 of taxable income; 9% above	Federal Decree-Law 47 of 2022, Art. 3(1); Cabinet Decision 116 of 2022
QFZP rates	0% on Qualifying Income; 9% on everything else	Federal Decree-Law 47 of 2022, Art. 3(2)
QFZP conditions	Adequate substance; qualifying income; no Art. 19 election; compliance with Art. 34 and 55; any further conditions set by the Minister	Federal Decree-Law 47 of 2022, Art. 18(1)
Further QFZP conditions	De minimis satisfied, and audited financial statements prepared	Ministerial Decision 229 of 2025, Art. 5(1)
De minimis ceiling	The lower of 5% of total revenue or AED 5,000,000	Ministerial Decision 229 of 2025, Art. 3
Cost of failing a condition	Status lost for that tax period and the following four	Ministerial Decision 229 of 2025, Art. 5(2)
Registration	Required of every taxable person, within the FTA’s timeline	Federal Decree-Law 47 of 2022, Art. 51; FTA Decision No. 3 of 2024
Return and payment	Within 9 months of the end of the tax period	Federal Decree-Law 47 of 2022, Art. 53(1)
Record retention	7 years after the end of the relevant tax period	Federal Decree-Law 47 of 2022, Art. 56
Small Business Relief	Revenue AED 3,000,000 or less, tax periods ending on or before 31 Dec 2029, not available to a QFZP	Ministerial Decision 73 of 2023, as amended by Ministerial Decision 131 of 2026

Each row checked against the published text of the instrument named, on 4 August 2026.

A worked example: a Dubai South 3PL

Take a freight and warehousing company in the Logistics District with a 12-month tax period and revenue of AED 12,000,000, made up as follows.

• AED 9,400,000 of logistics services invoiced to overseas shippers and to other free zone entities. Logistics services are a named Qualifying Activity, so this is qualifying income.
• AED 2,300,000 of logistics services invoiced to mainland UAE manufacturers. Still a Qualifying Activity under Article 2(1)(m), so still qualifying income even though the customer is a non-free-zone person.
• AED 300,000 of office space sub-let to an unrelated mainland company. Ownership or exploitation of immovable property other than Commercial Property let to a free zone person is an Excluded Activity under Article 2(2)(e), so this is non-qualifying revenue.

Run the de minimis test. The ceiling is the lower of 5% of AED 12,000,000, which is AED 600,000, and AED 5,000,000. The lower figure is AED 600,000. Non-qualifying revenue is AED 300,000, comfortably inside it, so the company keeps Qualifying Free Zone Person status and the AED 11,700,000 of qualifying income sits at 0%.

Now change the facts. The company takes on a warehouse-management contract structured as a property licence rather than a service, adding AED 400,000 of the same excluded property income. Non-qualifying revenue becomes AED 700,000 against a ceiling of AED 620,000 on the new total revenue of AED 12,400,000. The company fails de minimis, and under Article 5(2) of Ministerial Decision 229 of 2025 it ceases to be a Qualifying Free Zone Person for that tax period and the following four. All AED 12,400,000 then falls under the standard regime — 0% on the first AED 375,000 and 9% above it, giving corporate tax of (12,400,000 − 375,000) × 9% = AED 1,082,250 for the year, repeated on similar figures for four more years.

The lesson is contractual rather than commercial. How the warehouse deal is papered — as a service or as a property licence — moves the same money between the qualifying and non-qualifying columns. That is a decision to take before signing, with the corporate tax position in the room.

The compliance calendar a Dubai South licence carries

Obligation	Deadline	Instrument
Corporate tax registration	The timeline set for your licence-issue month	FTA Decision No. 3 of 2024
Corporate tax return and payment	9 months from the end of the tax period	Federal Decree-Law 47 of 2022, Art. 53(1)
VAT registration	Within 30 days of exceeding AED 375,000 over a rolling 12 months	VAT Executive Regulation, Art. 7
VAT return and payment	The 28th day after the end of the tax period	VAT Executive Regulation, Art. 64(1)
Tax invoice issue	14 days from the date of supply	Federal Decree-Law 8 of 2017, Art. 67(1)
E-invoicing — appoint an ASP	31 March 2027 (revenue below AED 50m)	Ministerial Decision 244 of 2025, Art. 5(1)(b)
E-invoicing — go live	1 July 2027 (revenue below AED 50m)	Ministerial Decision 244 of 2025, Art. 5(1)(b)
Audited financial statements	Annually, where a QFZP claim is made	Ministerial Decision 229 of 2025, Art. 5(1)(b)
Corporate tax record retention	7 years	Federal Decree-Law 47 of 2022, Art. 56
Licence, establishment card and lease renewal	Annually, per your Dubai South agreement	Dubai South regulations

Federal deadlines verified against the published instrument texts on 4 August 2026. Zone renewal dates are set by Dubai South.

What a warehouse operator risks getting wrong

Risk	Where it comes from	Penalty or consequence
Breaching Designated Zone goods conditions	VAT Executive Regulation, Art. 51; Cabinet Decision 40 of 2017, Table 3 item 3	The higher of AED 50,000 or 50% of the tax chargeable on the goods
Stock shortage on untaxed goods in a Designated Zone	VAT Executive Regulation, Art. 51(9)(b)	The goods are treated as imported, creating a VAT liability
Own consumption of untaxed goods in the zone	VAT Executive Regulation, Art. 51(9)(a)	Treated as an import unless incorporated into another good
Assuming services from the zone are outside VAT	VAT Executive Regulation, Art. 51(6)	The place of supply is inside the State — 5% applies
Late tax registration	Cabinet Decision 40 of 2017, Table 1 item 3	AED 10,000
Late payment of payable tax	Cabinet Decision 40 of 2017, Table 1 item 9, as amended from 14 April 2026	14% per annum, charged monthly
Failure to issue a tax invoice in time	Cabinet Decision 40 of 2017, Table 3 item 4	AED 2,500 per detected case

Penalty amounts from the consolidated text of Cabinet Decision No. 40 of 2017 as amended by Cabinet Decisions No. 49 of 2021, No. 108 of 2021 and No. 129 of 2025, published by the Ministry of Finance. Last verified 4 August 2026.

The stock-shortage row is the one that separates warehouse businesses from office businesses. In an ordinary company a stock loss is an accounting write-off. In a Designated Zone holding untaxed goods, Article 51(9) treats the shortage as an import, which makes it a tax event as well. Cycle counts stop being a housekeeping habit and become a compliance control.

How Dubai South compares with the alternatives

Factor	Dubai South	JAFZA	DAFZA	Meydan / IFZA
Anchor infrastructure	Al Maktoum International (DWC)	Jebel Ali Port	Dubai International (DXB)	None — office zones
Best for	Air freight, e-commerce fulfilment, sea-air hybrid, aviation	Sea freight, heavy industry, large-volume re-export	Time-critical air cargo, electronics, pharma	Consultancy, services, small trading
Warehousing	Purpose-built, still expanding	Deepest and most mature	Constrained by DXB land	Limited or none
Designated Zone status for VAT	Confirm plot by plot against the Cabinet Decision list	Yes	Yes	No
Named Qualifying Activities that fit	Logistics services; distribution in or from a Designated Zone; aircraft financing and leasing	Manufacturing; processing; distribution in or from a Designated Zone	Distribution in or from a Designated Zone	Few — usually reliant on free-zone-to-free-zone income
Entry cost tier	Mid	Premium	Premium	Value
Brand recognition with UAE buyers	Growing	Highest in logistics	High	Mixed

Designated Zone status is determined by Cabinet Decision 59 of 2017 and its amendments and must be confirmed for your specific area. Qualifying Activity rows reference Ministerial Decision 229 of 2025, Art. 2(1). Last reviewed 4 August 2026.

The honest trade-off

For: the corridor to Jebel Ali is real operational infrastructure; the government’s AED 128 billion airport commitment anchors two decades of demand; EZDubai is the purpose-built answer for e-commerce fulfilment; entry pricing undercuts the prestige Dubai zones; and the zone’s activity set maps cleanly onto QFZP-qualifying logistics work.

Against: the district is still building out, so parts of the city are a construction site with a masterplan attached; the address carries less instant brand recognition than DMCC or JAFZA in some client conversations; passenger connectivity at DWC remains thin until the expansion phases land; and warehouse-based setups carry real costs that the headline package conceals. Businesses that need mainland invoicing freedom still face the standard free zone structuring questions.

E-invoicing lands before the terminals do

Whatever else changes at Dubai South between now and the airport’s new terminals opening, the way its tenants issue invoices changes first. The UAE’s Electronic Invoicing System applies to any person conducting business in the State under Article 3 of Ministerial Decision 243 of 2025, and free zone status is not an exclusion — Article 4 excludes transactions, not licence types.

Milestone	Date	Applies to	Source
Pilot Programme commences	1 July 2026	Invited Taxpayer Working Group	MD 244 of 2025, Art. 3(4)
Voluntary adoption opens	1 July 2026	Anyone who chooses to	MD 244 of 2025, Art. 4
Appoint an ASP, then go live	30 October 2026, then 1 January 2027	Revenue at or above AED 50,000,000	MD 66 of 2026, Art. 1
Appoint an ASP, then go live	31 March 2027, then 1 July 2027	Revenue below AED 50,000,000	MD 244 of 2025, Art. 5(1)(b)
Transmission window	14 days from the Date of Business Transaction	Everyone in scope	MD 243 of 2025, Art. 6(5)
Notify the FTA of a system failure	2 business days	Everyone in scope	MD 243 of 2025, Art. 12
Storage of invoices and credit notes	Within the State	Everyone in scope	MD 243 of 2025, Art. 11
Airline exclusions	International passenger tickets and air waybills, the latter for 24 months from effectiveness	Airlines only	MD 243 of 2025, Art. 4(1)(b)–(d)

Verified against the published texts of Ministerial Decisions No. 243 and No. 244 of 2025 and Ministerial Decision No. 66 of 2026 on the Ministry of Finance website, 4 August 2026.

The airline exclusions in Article 4 are worth reading closely if you are in the Aviation District. International passenger transport where an electronic ticket is issued is excluded, as are ancillary services documented by an Electronic Miscellaneous Document, and international goods transport documented by an air waybill — but that last exclusion runs only for twenty-four months from the date the system becomes effective. A freight airline planning around it should diary the expiry rather than treat it as permanent.

Exporters in the Logistics District should also read the export invoice format UAE rules alongside this, because a zero-rated export still has to be transmitted as a structured invoice, and EZDubai retailers should read e-invoicing for retail UAE for the consumer-facing side.

How Velmont Crest helps

Velmont Crest works with founders and operators on Dubai South setups as part of a broader UAE accounting and advisory practice — we are advisors, not a licensing authority, and the zone itself issues every licence. Our role is the decision quality around it: whether the Logistics District or a cheaper zone actually fits the operating model, whether the activity wording will support QFZP later, whether the facility tier survives the bank’s substance questions, and whether the three-year cost model is honest. After setup, we run the finance layer — bookkeeping, VAT, corporate tax registration and filing — so the compliance side of an operating logistics business stays as clean as its warehouse floor. Zone choices are cheap to get right before licence issuance and expensive to unwind after; talk to us while it is still the first kind.