Just a few hours away from neighbors
Thailand is located in the natural prime area of Asia, serves as the hub of northern, southern, south-eastern and eastern Asia. This advantage makes Thailand the best operational base for business in the East.
Abundant natural resources
Topographically, Thailand is flat and fertile. Aside from the somewhat arid Northeast, the entire country is blessed with an abundance of water, both in its 2,600 km. coastline, and in the many rivers and canals which nourish its crops. Such topographical advantage makes Thailand an agricultural country.Thailand is nick named “the Kitchen of the World‿ because yearly it cultivated billion tons of food supplying the entire world. Thailand ranks among the top ten exporters of the following food commodities:
- World's largest exporter of canned pineapple, pineapple juice and concentrates.
- World's largest exporter of frozen shrimps
- Second largest exporter of seafood (especially tuna)
- One of the top ten exporters of frozen chicken
- One of the world's leading producers of rice, producing about 24 million tons
- One of the world's largest suppliers of sugar, tapioca
Thailand earns about US$10billion annually from food manufacturing alone. In 2001, the food export of Thailand was worth 444.706 millions baht which was about 15.0% of the country's 2.89 trillions baht exports.
World standard public infrastructures
In the past 30 years, Infrastructure had been developed continuously and Infrastructure has been the important factor to support national economic, social, and quality of life development. So far, Thailand has invested in Infrastructure projects at the average of 5 to 6 percent of GDP.
At present the status of infrastructure development in transportation, energy, communications and public utility sectors have been vastly improved. Basic and essential utilities such as electricity, water, telephone are continuously upgraded to meet demand and to technologically advance in line with industrial countries.
Main road networks are mostly reinforced concrete roads and asphalt concrete roads. Bangkok-Chon Buri Motor Way and the Eastern Outer Bangkok Ring Road are now completed to improve transport efficiency. The route length of the train network is nearly 4,000 km. Waterway access in the East-West corridor on the Mekong Delta links Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam and China.