Dr. Apichai Boontherawara, President of Export-Import Bank of Thailand (EXIM Thailand), announces that despite worldwide financial turbulences, EXIM Thailand achieved satisfactory operating results in 2008 at EXIM Thailand Head Office on February 11, 2009.New loans and export credit insurance extended to exporters and Thai investors overseas increased by 47.3% while business turnover rose by 2.7% from that of 2007. In 2009, EXIM Thailand will continue to assume a more proactive “development banking” role through cooperation with state and private sectors by providing loan, export credit insurance and financial advisory services for domestic and overseas Thai businesses beneficial to national development.