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Ajman Free Zone has publicized the 73 per cent accomplishment of its ongoing Eco-Friendly Zone project a few months after its Chairman, H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Humaid Al Nuaimi, formally launched the large-scale initiative.

The construction of the green zone, which will encompass new sustainable warehouses as its core feature, is going full speed ahead alongside Ajman Free Zones heightened and steady efforts to invite more local, regional and global investors. Attracting global businesses to the emirate is aligned with the goals of Ajman Vision 2021. The project is being positioned to support the free zone's efforts to provide investors with new extra units that meet the demand and necessities for spaces like showrooms, warehouses, and sustainable industrial facilities.

H.E. Eng. Ali Abdulla Bin Towaih AlSuwaidi, Director General, AFZ, said: We continue on track to complete the project by February 2021. This will not only help further enlarge the free zones capacity to fully support commercial and industrial activities, but it will also increase its affordability in a world that is steadily marching towards a sustainable future. The AED 36-million green initiative also serves to prove our obligation to boosting Ajmans transition to a green economy, as well as promoting environmental protection and increasing the market share of clean energy in the country according to the goals of UAE Vision 2021.

Revealed in July 2020, the strategic 9,070-square-meter Eco-Friendly Zone will rise to become the free zones green business community of state-of-the-art warehouses and offices and service blocks built to meet the several requirements of companies across industries. Each warehousing unit will be equipped with advanced tools designed to reduce electricity consumption, minimize carbon emission and allow the implementation of the best sustainable practices as part of Ajman Free Zones overall environmental sustainability initiatives.

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