The Seville Free Zone has joined the Association of Free Zones of the Americas (AZFA), an organization that leads the representation of the free zone ecosystem in Latin America and whose objectives include, among other things, promoting competitiveness, innovation, investment and sustainable development in free zones.
As an associate member of the AZFA, the Seville Free Zone aims to “strengthen its international presence and promote the acquisition of investments” by integrating into a network with almost 30 years of experience in positioning open spaces as “key platforms” for international trade and global value chains, present in 25 countries and with 770 affiliated free zones and more than 8,000 established companies, according to the Seville Free Zone.
This strategic alliance will allow the Sevillian Free Zone to actively participate in international forums, access studies, data and specialized research and establish links with other reference free zones at a global level. In addition, it strengthens its role as an economic engine in southern Spain and as a management reference in the European context.
In this context, the State Delegate of the Free Trade Zone of Seville, Carmen Tovar, has stated that with the incorporation of AZFA, “the free trade zone will make qualitative progress in the roadmap we have drawn up to create opportunities for economic and business growth and therefore employment, to facilitate the external visibility of our companies and to promote the attractiveness of investments at the international level.”
For its part, the Association of Free Zones of the Americas has highlighted both the location of the Seville Free Zone in “a strategic logistics environment crucial for industrial and logistics activities in Southern Europe” and the special tax and customs regime under which it operates, which positions it as a “highly competitive free zone for companies in the industrial, logistics, import and export, warehousing, goods transformation and distribution sectors”.
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