Tag: roundwood

Global Trends Review, April 07-20, 2014: raw wood concerns around the world; lumber production in Finland predicted to grow 2% in 2014

According to the latest Eurostat figures quoted by Fordaq, in 2013 not only the sawmills from Europe made their presence obvious on the Chinese market, but also EU’s softwood log exporters more than tripled their deliveries compared to...

Far Eastern timber producers ask Vanino port to raise quotas for timber cargoes

Timber companies of the Russian Far East were not ready to change logistics centre after the change of ownership at Vanino port, as Far Eastern newspaper Zolotoy Rog reported. The Chairman of Dalexportles association, General Director of Smena...

State Duma adopted the law on roundwood trade control

On Friday, 20 December, the State Duma adopted a law amending the Forest code. The amendments are connected with the introduction of forest declarations and information system which will track roundwood trade. The document is available at the...

North-Western shipping company boosted timber deliveries by 70%

During the shipping season, from 25 April to 15 November, 2013, vessels of North-Western shipping company transported 370,000 tonnes of timber cargoes, which is 70% higher than last year. Transportation from the river ports of North-West Russia to...

Russian government revised rules for softwood export tariff quotas

The Government of Russia has introduced fundamental changes in the rules for allocation of tariff quotas on the exports of unprocessed timber of spruce, fir and pine trees outside Russia and the participants of Customs Union. These rules...

Global Trends Review, September 30 – October 06, 2013: particleboard capacity in Central Europe to fall by 1 million m3; OSB and pellet industries to fight for raw wood

Glulam production costs in Central Europe as of September 2013 stand at €411/m3, according to Timber-online, website run by Holzkurier journal. Price for glulam-lamellae ranges from €209 to €213/m3. To have them dried down brings the costs to...

WhatWood: Reduction of roundwood customs duties increased hardwood exports from Russia

Following the results of the first half-year of 2013, the volume of roundwood export from Russia increased by 3.3% compared to the first half of 2012 up to 8.4 million m3 (excluding the countries of Customs Union, e.g....

Global Trends Review, July 29 – August 04, 2013: Energy demand for biomass grows; modified timber market developing

Pellet imports from the US to Europe are still on an upward trend. According to statistics provided by Eurostat, in the first four months of 2013, import volume grew by 51% year-on-year to 756,789 tons. In value terms,...

Log prices in Finland

Apart from well-developed own logging, Finland also delivers wood from neighbouring countries like Russia, Estonia, Sweden, Latvia and Lithuania. They mainly supply hardwood pulplogs and plylogs for the Finnish pulp & paper and panel industry in addition to...

UPM: Major benefit of Russia’s accession to WTO will be in softened customs procedures

On the pages of corporate Griffin journal, top managers of UPM expressed their outlook on possible results of Russia’s WTO accession for the company. Pekka Rajala, VP, Sourcing Director North Europe, supposes that elimination of export duties will...

Lumber production in Russia fell 2.6% to 10.2m m3 in the first half of 2013

In the first half-year, lumber production in Russia declined by 2.6% year-on-year down to 10.2 million m3. Plywood production increased by 3.8% to 1.7 million m3, fibreboard production declined by 9.8% to 202 million nominal m2. Paper output...

Export restoration caused pulpwood prices in Russian North-West to grow in May

Growth of roundwood prices in the Central federal district of Russia in May was due to lack of summer timber removal and growing demand for wood at the start of the construction season, as analytic service of WhatWood...