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Forestry & Logging

News on forestry and logging in Russia.

Expert Council: A Challenging Start

April 26, 2013 ` 03:46  
WhatWood attended the first meeting of the Forest Industry Expert Council at State Duma on Friday, April 19. The main topic at the event was draft law on control and inventory of roundwood trade to fight illegal logging....

Ukraine to impose export duties on roundwood and wood chips

April 18, 2013 ` 14:31  
Ukraine plans to establish raw wood duty to reduce exports of raw materials from the country. Rada Committee on Industrial and Investment Policy supported the bill #2325 “On establishing the rates of export duties on timber”, which is...

VAT return cancellation, wood commodity exchange and state co-financing: proposals of regional governors to Putin at the State Council

April 16, 2013 ` 22:28  
President Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the State Council in Ulan-Ude (Buryatia Republic, Siberia) dedicated to the problems of the forest industry. The participants of the meeting discussed a lot of issues of the industry and proposed...

Russian forest industry revenue increased by 6.5% to €18.46 billion in 2012

Russian forest industry earned 733.6 billion Rubles (€18.46 billion) in 2012, which is 6.5% higher than in 2011, as said in the annual report published by WhatWood analytic department. Sales profit amounted to 52.88 billion Rubles, which is...

Arkhbum CEO: Growth of railroad tariffs will switch loggers to truck transportation

February 12, 2013 ` 04:54  
Arkhangelsk, February 12. On January 28, Russian Railways made another tariff hike by 2.4% on transporting pulpwood in carriages of 13-4012-17, 13-4012-16, 13-401-06, 13-401-07, 13-198 models as well as open wagons. Transporting logs by 23-4000 and 23-469М2 wagons...

Russian Railways to revise new wood transportation tariffs

January 25, 2013 ` 16:31  
Moscow, January 25. Federal Tariff Service of Russia requested Russian Railways to return to previous tariff rate, as Arkhangelsk pulpmill service reported. As the company said, since November 01, 2012, Russian Railways decided to unify tariff rate for...

Roslesinforg signed agreement of intent with Finland’s Indufor Oy

January 17, 2013 ` 16:49  
Moscow, January 17. Roslesinforg, a forest management organization under responsibility of Russian Forest Service, signed an agreement of intent with Finnish consulting Indufor Oy company. The agreement stipulates long-term collaboration in terms of theoretical, legal and management consulting...

Yugra government evaluated forest roads construction in the region at €31.9 million

November 30, 2012 ` 06:36  
Khanty-Mansiysk, November 30. According to the draft project of social and economic development strategy of Yugra autonomous district, it is planned to invest 12.8 billion Rubles (€31.9 million) into all-season forest roads in the region on private-public partnership...

Log export from Russia declined by 21% to 12.5 million cu m in 9 months of 2012 – WhatWood Analytics

November 29, 2012 ` 20:43  
Moscow, November 29. Physical volume of roundwood export from Russia declined by 21% in January-September 2012 year-on-year down to 12.5 million cu m, as said in the report published by WhatWood analytic service. Export cost declined by 27.3% on-year down...

New forest department directors appointed in Tomsk and Arkhangelsk

November 27, 2012 ` 20:48  
Tomsk-Arkhangelsk, November 27. Vladimir Zablotskiy has been appointed head of the forestry department in Tomsk region, as regional press service reported. Vladimir Zablotskiy was born in 1955 in Altai region. He graduated from Siberia Technological Institute in Krasnoyarsk...

Karelia to become the first Russian region to use intensive forest management

November 22, 2012 ` 09:45  
Petrozavodsk, November 22. Karelian government has agreed with Russian Forest Service (Rosleskhoz) that Karelia would become the first region to use intensive forest management methods, as announced by Karelian governor Aleksandr Hudilainen commenting on the results of the...

Head of Duma Forest Council: Russia’s accession to WTO will cause mill closures, but will help Russian loggers

November 20, 2012 ` 13:34  
Moscow, November 20. Woodworking and pulp and paper mills will possibly go through massive closures after Russia’s accession to WTO, as predicted by former Vologda region governor, now Head of Forest Council in State Duma Vyacheslav Pozgalyov. Russian...