The ZILS provides to the investors the best location to do its investment, with a great entrepreneurial environment to do business. There are already some of the biggest national companies such as Galp, EDP, Sonae Indústria and Cimpor Group and international companies like Repsol. The current activity in Sines’s Region grants the status of main energetical and petrochemical center of the country and its deep water port is one of the biggest drivers of the country’s economy.

The portuguese market has businesses and privileged cultural relations with the seven countries that share the Portuguese language, the 5th more spoken in the world allowing that foreigner companies that invest in zils may easily access to this emerging markets. Among the countries with Portuguese language as official it is highlighted for its dimension Angola, Brasil and Mozambique.

To invest in ZILS is easy considering the simplicity of the needed procedures for setting a business. The active social policy in what concerns stability and entrepreneurship, innovation and burocracy reduction and the recent reforms of the legal and tax systems, create ideal conditions for the creation of a company and for its growth.

The investment in ZILS can also benefit from investment incentives, developed in the framework of the economical development public policies for promoting innovation and regional development.

The excellence of the conditions offered by ZILS can be represented trough the infrastructures or the vast and diversified offer in its socioeconomical surrounding. The surrounding of ZILS includes important urban centers with high populational dynamics and a multicultural society, proactive and hospitable. When investing in ZILS there is available an attractive labour market, with qualified workforce and competitive capacity, a calm labour environment and a modern regulamentation similar to the other European countries.

The surrounding of ZILS presents also a modern network of technological infrastructures and communication, as well as a wide range of institutions and service providers. The ZILS and its surrounding present together a group of competitive advantages for the investors that get installed here and a good environment for the development of all the economical activities.