Investment bank finances coffee export

Dak Lak (VNA) - The Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV)
will provide a loan of 800 billion VND for the Tay Nguyen Coffee
Import-Export Co. to support the latter's export activities.

The coffee exporter said on Nov. 24 that BIDV's loan is expected to
facilitate its activities amid coffee prices' fluctuations and upheavals in
the world financial market.

The Tay Nguyen Coffee Import-Export Co. is one of the world's leading
Robusta coffee exporters, with its average export volume reaching 160,000
tonnes a year.

The company plans to ship abroad 200,000 tonnes of coffee in the 2008-2009
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