Logistics
Euroports and Metsä Fibre expand cooperation
May 4, 2021 ` 18:45
Euroports Finland and Metsä Fibre have signed a multi-year service agreement, under which the port operator will take care of handling the finished products of the sawmill that is going to be built in Rauma by the third...
The navigation season begins at Segezha Group enterprises in Krasnoyarsk region
April 30, 2021 ` 19:46
On April 29, 2021, the proprietary fleet of the Lesosibirsky LDK No.1 JSC launched its vessels as scheduled, after a winter break and some maintenance work. In this navigation period, the Plant plans to receive a total of...
JSC Volga increases the share of railroad shipments
April 29, 2021 ` 18:24
At the end of February 2021, JSC Volga started shipping finished products from the Nizhny Novgorod region to China by rail via the port of Vladivostok. The new option will reduce the cost of transportation and shorten the...
Tesla truck test for timber transport
April 14, 2021 ` 17:12
As part of a pilot project in Canada, Tesla Semis are used to transport wood. Mosaic Forest Management, a forestry company based on Vancouver Island, intends to use electrification to pave the way for emission-free transport. Mosaic explains...
TransContainer and NFC Logistics develop cooperation on international multimodal transportation
PJCS TransContainer of Delo Group and JSC NFC Logistics, a subsidiary of JSC TENEX (of State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom) have concluded a Memorandum on Strategic Partnership and Cooperation in the field of International Multimodal Transportation. The Parties...
Russian Timber Journal 03-2021: interview with Oleg Fokin, Commercial Director of Sudoma Sawmill; markets of South Korea and Japan: prospects for the development of wood pellet exports from Russia; U.S. softwood sawn timber prices unchanged from the previous week; timber exporters from Irkutsk are experiencing difficulties in shipping products to China; investments in the Russian forest industry decreased by 9.8% in 2020
April 8, 2021 ` 17:03
Russian Timber Journal 03-2021: Oleg Fokin, Commercial Director of Sudoma Sawmill: “At the moment, Russia does not have enough own production facilities for processing low-grade timber in full”; WhatWood: Russian wood pellet exports outlook to the South Korea and...
Timber exporters from Irkutsk are experiencing difficulties in shipping products to China
April 7, 2021 ` 16:47
When interviewed by FederalPress, Yury Logachev, president of the regional Union of Timber Industrialists and Exporters, said that the problem had been persisting for several months. “It leads to failures to fulfill contractual obligations, financial losses, decreased revenues...
Pavlovo-Posadskiy Gofrokombinat commissions a new building for storing products in the Moscow region
April 5, 2021 ` 19:26
Pavlovo-Posadskiy Gofrokombinat (the town of Pavlovsky Posad in the Moscow region) has commissioned a new building of 12,500 m² for storing raw materials and finished products. Investment in the construction amounted to 200 million rubles. The new building...
Russian Timber Journal 02-2021: interview with Russ Taylor, President of Russ Taylor Global; Russian sawn timber market in 2020, outlook for 2021; Metsä Fibre going ahead with € 1.6 billion Kemi bioproduct mill investment; Segezha Group acquires Novoyeniseiskiy Wood Chemical Complex; Uvadrev places an order from Siempelkamp
March 15, 2021 ` 16:57
Russian Timber Journal 02-2021: interview with Russ Taylor, President of Russ Taylor Global; Russian sawn timber market in 2020, outlook for 2021; Metsä Fibre going ahead with € 1.6 billion Kemi bioproduct mill investment; Segezha Group acquires Novoyeniseiskiy Wood Chemical Complex; Uvadrev places an...
Arkhbum LLC received a new batch of Tikhvin flat wagons
March 9, 2021 ` 13:27
The Research and Production Corporation “United Wagon Company” PJSC (RPC UWC) delivered a new batch of flat wagons (40 ft) for the transportation of timber products to Arkhbum LLC. The platforms type 13-6852-02 (40 ft) build up a...
VLP Group: draft of the Russian Federal Government resolution submitted for public review contradicts measures implied by president Putin’s instructions
February 11, 2021 ` 17:29
Official press release from Group Vologodskiye Lesopromyshlenniki: At present, the government’s draft resolution “On Determining Railway Checkpoints at the Border of the Russian Federation for exporting goods of the HS Code Group 4403 of the Combined Commodity Nomenclature...
Russian Timber Journal 01-2021: Dmitry Rudenko, Vice President of Segezha Group: demand for wooden houses currently exceeds the productive capacity; the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia held the IV LPK 360° Timber Industry Forum themed A New Era of Development as part of the measures for the development of the timber industry; the Government approved the RF Forest Sector Development Strategy until 2030; how soon will Russia become the world’s largest wood pellet supplier?
February 11, 2021 ` 16:14
Russian Timber Journal 01-2021: WhatWood Agency interviewed Dmitry Rudenko, Vice President of Segezha Group, about the expectations for wooden housing construction and the CLT construction technology that is relatively new for Russia; WhatWood Agency summarizes key theses of the plenary...