Seminar participants (from left): Chavalid Worrasanpisut, Senior Marketing Officer, CS Internet; Jittima Pongpojkasem, Senior Vice President, Trade Finance; Apirom Noi-am, Senior Vice President, e-Commerce and e-Banking Division, Bank of Asia; Torboon Puangmaha, Chief Operating Officer, thailand.com/Meet World Trade; Chanida Wattanapatimakul, Assistant Manager, Retail Business Department, Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance (Thailand) Ltd.; Sukporn Chatchavalapong, General Manager - Commercial Lines Insurance, Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance (Thailand) Ltd.; Surachai Rattayavisid, General Manager, Personal Financial services, Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance (Thailand) Ltd.; Veerawat Hongsitthiwong, Assistant Vice President, Business Development & Marketing, thailand.com/Meet World Trade.

thailand.com/Meet World trade, a leading Thai web portal, recently held a seminar under the title "Integrated Exports via the Internet" designed to educate Thai exporters on the importance of e-commerce in international trade. The event was held on Wednesday 28 November, 2001 at the Royal Princess Hotel. The portal invited its business partners - Bank of Asia, Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance (Thailand) Ltd., SGS (Thailand) Co., Ltd. and CS Internet, which are e-commerce co-service providers to members of thailand.com/Meet World Trade, to participate in the seminar. The co-operation between thailand.com/Meet World trade and its business partners enables exporters to conduct the full-cycle integrated export process via the Internet. Around 200 participants joined the seminar.

Torboon Puangmaha, Chief Operating Officer, thailand.com/Meet World Trade revealed that the seminar was a part of the "export through e-commerce project", launched by the Department of Export Promotion. thailand.com/Meet World Trade was selected by the Department of Export Promotion as an official e-commerce service provider to Thai exporters.

The company's Chief Operating Officer added that to date over 700 exporters have joined the project. The objective of this latest seminar was to help create linkages between Thai exporters and thailand.com/Meet World Trade's business partners with the aim of offering a fully integrated export service through the Internet. The thailand.com/Meet World Trade site offers a range of services to facilitate exporters including a website management system, which allows users to edit content and pictures of their company and products by themselves, and an online negotiation system, which enables exporters to exchange messages and directly negotiate with global buyers, view contact history, and carry out full online transactions with international importers.