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In the first three months of 2023, the EU27 imported 29,800 cubic metres of tropical logs, 21% more than the same period in 2022. The most significant trend was a sharp 195% rise in EU27 log imports from Congo to 17,600 cubic metres in the first ... [mai mult...]
Chenglingji Port has been designated as a new port for imported logs. Chenglingji Port is one of the eight deep water ports on the Yangtze River and the only national first-class Port in Hunan Province ... [mai mult...]
Finnish pulpmills and sawmills have long been dependent on imported wood raw-material to meet their wood fiber needs. In 2021, as much as 23% of the pulp sector relied on foreign logs and wood chips, predominantly from neighboring countries ... [mai mult...]
.5 million cubic meters of wood have been cut, which is one percent more than in the same period last year.
A total of 7.6 million cubic meters of logs were harvested, which is one percent less than a year ago ... [mai mult...]
The China-Europe freight raiway serves China, Europe and the countries in between. As the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) develops this train service has become a key channel for economic cooperation between China and other countries along the BRI routes.
High value-added products are ... [mai mult...]
. The commission also regularly issued price recommendations for logs from Swiss forests. After the Competition Commission got involved at the end of 2019, the Timber Market Commission was dissolved in summer 2020 ... [mai mult...]
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Compared to a year ago, the prices of softwood logs and pine logs have increased by 37-59%. By the end of the third quarter, the average price of pine logs has r ... [mai mult...]
Prices for oak logs continued to increase strongly in the autumn on the back of strong demand throughout Europe. The evolution of beech log prices differed strongly between countries ... [mai mult...]
China imported 30% of its total volume of softwood logs from Europe in 2020 and 2021, thus surpassing supply from Russia and North America ... [mai mult...]
China’s General Administration of Customs released new phytosanitary requirements for pine logs and lumber from 7 countries (United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Portugal and Spain) where the pine nematode is present ... [mai mult...]
In its latest report, Wood Resources International (WRI) says that the trade of logs and lumber in Europe will “change dramatically” in the coming years, with timber harvests having reportedly peaked in Central Europe ... [mai mult...]
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The sawmilling industry is the largest end-user of softwood logs in the US South and is also the sector that has increased capacity the most over the past decade ... [mai mult...]
.9% making $1.6 bn.
Russia's logs export increased by 17.9% year-on-year up to 4.6 mn cbm worth $344.6 mn, up 26.8% year-on-year. Plywood export grew by 9 ... [mai mult...]
The Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine and Storage (DPPQS) under the Ministry of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare (MOA) regulates the import of logs into India ... [mai mult...]
Germany continued to export logs at record pace in early 2020, with almost 50% of the volume destined for China, Wood Resources Quarterly (WRQ) reports ... [mai mult...]
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US no longer largest log supplier
The main countries supplying more than 1 million cubic metres of logs to China in the first half of 2020 were New Zealand, Russia, Germany, Australia, PNG, Czech Rep ... [mai mult...]
In 2019 hardwood log imports fell 15% to 15.31 million cubic metres (25% of the national total log imports). The average price for imported hardwood logs in 2019 was US$248 (CIF) per cubic metre, down 14% on 2018 ... [mai mult...]
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Practically all of the additional ten million m3 of annually harvested softwood roundwood the past three years was exported, either in the form of logs or domestically processed lumber ... [mai mult...]
After the worst wood market crisis of the past 30 years, the Bavarian State Forests have seen a consolidation of the wood market and a noticeable increase in the price of softwood. Martin Neumeyer, Chairman of the Board of Management of the Bavarian State Forests, sees the reasons f ... [mai mult...]
After recovering a little ground in 2018, EU imports of tropical logs slowed again in the first quarter of 2019. Imports of 23,500 MT during the first quarter of the year were 10% less than the same period in 2018 ... [mai mult...]
Logs from industrial plantations are fast becoming a major export for Sarawak as production from the natural forest has been reduced drastically ... [mai mult...]
The Myanmar Timber Enterprise (MTE) has said it is holding as much as 40,000 tons of unsold inn-kanyin logs from last years’ harvest. Inn-kanyin logs from Myanmar are commonly used for plywood face veneer ... [mai mult...]
After recovering ground in 2018 and stabilising in the first half of 2019, EU imports of tropical logs slowed in the third quarter of 2019. Imports of 76,700 MT during the first nine of the year were 13% less than the same period in 2018 ... [mai mult...]
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Among them, the export volume of logs was 8.94 million m3, a decrease of 14.8% compared with the same period of last year.
The export volume of lumber was 11 ... [mai mult...]
. Startlingly, shipments from Uruguay to China fell to less than 200,000 m3 in the 3Q 2019, when prices for logs plummeted to the point where it no longer made financial sense for Uruguayan exporters to ship logs ... [mai mult...]