Kezad Group launched, to provide integrated ecosystems for strategic industries in Abu Dhabi

AD Ports Group, the leading facilitator of trade, logistics, and industry, has unveiled “Kezad Group” as part of the plan to consolidate and grow its Economic Cities and Free Zones offering.

The move follows the integration of Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (Kizad) and Specialised Economic Zones (ZonesCorp) into the newly formed Kezad Group (Khalifa Economic Zones Abu Dhabi Group), which comprises 12 economic zones with a total area of 550 square kilometres, including 100 square kilometres designated as Free Zones.

In addition, it has more than 300,000 square metres of prebuilt warehouse facilities. It is home to more than 40 staff accommodation complexes with more than 450,000 beds (located in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Al Dhafra Region), including the 77,000 beds operated by Kezad Group.

Today, Kezad Group hosts more than 1,750 clients from 17 industrial and economic sectors catering to a range of key industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Metals, Automotive, Polymers, Building Materials Recycling, Food and Agtech, Plastics and Polymers, Retail and Logistics, Hi-Tech and Green Energy, Life Sciences, Oil and Gas, and Specialty Chemicals, each offering direct access to all industry and economic verticals from processing and storage to distribution.

Established to align with the UAE’s Industrial Strategy, the economic vision of Abu Dhabi and the recently launched Abu Dhabi Industrial Strategy, Kezad Group is designed to offer greater opportunities for investors looking to streamline every segment of their supply chain. Combining the portfolio’s assets will drive higher investments and develop a more robust portfolio of products and services for businesses and investors at the local, regional, and international levels.

It will leverage the collective strength of a combined organisation to enable expanded competitive choice of locations, greater pricing options, quality of infrastructure, ease of doing business and integrated services through unified processes, superior service delivery, and focused offerings for customers.

Kezad Group will be solely responsible for managing the process of planning, developing, operating, regulating, and promoting combined assets (Kizad, ZonesCorp and Kizad Communities) under the AD Ports Group’s Economic Cities and Free Zones portfolio, which makes up 55 percent of the UAE’s industrial area.

The launch of Kezad Group opens new opportunities to scale up adjacent businesses, such as Kezad Communities, which provides integrated solutions for staff residential communities and enables the Group to unlock the value of its significant land bank. In addition, Kezad Group will invest in dedicated infrastructure for key industrial sectors to enhance the ecosystem and create multiple new revenue streams, such as enhanced gas networks for metal and other heavy industries, and wholesale marketplaces for food and automotives.