Business Environment

Business Environment

General business benefits

  • Well-known international business center
  • Affluent economy, low inflation, stable currency (pegged to the US dollar)
  • One of the highest standards of living in the Caribbean

Infrastructural benefits

  • On the crossroads of major shipping routes
  • The region's largest deep-water port
  • State-of-the-art container transshipment terminal
  • Good telecommunications infrastructure
  • Full service international airport

Legal & financial benefits

  • Well-developed legal and financial infrastructure.
  • Close judicial and political ties with the Netherlands
  • Gateway to European, American, Latin American and Caribbean markets
  • The most favorable and flexible incorporation laws available in the world
  • Businesses interested in asset protection, tax minimization, privacy, investment diversification, affordability and convenience can set up with ease
  • Foreign land ownership is allowed and welcomed
  • Foreigners and international companies can hold bank accounts on Curacao.