Free zones (also known as freeport customs sites) are designated areas, located at ports (sea, air, or rail), which benefit from a more favourable customs regime than otherwise applies elsewhere. For ...

The boss of a low tax and low regulation business zone in the South West has expressed confidence it will hit a target of creating 3,500 new jobs despite criticism the figure is "complete fiction".

Citing threats to water wells and environmentally sensitive areas, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recommended a Freeport site be placed on its Superfund priorities list. The 40-acre ...

Natural gas markets already are reacting to speculation that startup of the damaged Freeport liquefied natural gas export terminal in Texas, which accounts for 20% of American shipments and now about ...

Freeport East - based at Felixstowe, Harwich and Stowmarket - says it has brought hundreds of thousands of pounds of investment to the region.