Archives: September 2021

New Zealand export log prices to China drop due to rising shipping costs

Prices for New Zealand exports of logs in August dropped around $35 per JAS m3 from July prices, due to [...]

Rise in CIF prices for China sawnwood imports

    According to China Customs in the first half of 2021 sawnwood imports totalled 14.06 million [...]

Severe timber shortage in UK as ‘perfect storm’ brings price hikes and delays

    The Covid crisis, Brexit hurdles and surging construction activity have combined to create a ‘huge’ timber [...]

Canada’s lumber producers to move more to US South due to high log prices in BC

    British Columbia is sharply increasing the cost of logs for lumber producers just as wood products [...]

EU exports less softwood lumber to Japan but at much higher prices

Exports of European softwood lumber to Japan reached in volume 1,110,802 cubic meters in the first half of [...]

Highest EU tropical wood imports since 2012

EU27 imports of tropical wood and wooden furniture started this year slowly in January and February but surged to US [...]

China: European spruce log inventory still low; prices slightly on the rise

At the moment, China's domestic spruce log inventory is less than 900,000 cubic meters.     [...]

Norway: Sharp rise in softwood log prices

The gradual increase in softwood prices in Norway since the second quarter of 2020 has continued into the second quarter [...]

N. American lumber prices continue to fall

For the 13th consecutive week, North American framing lumber prices are down.  On Friday, the cash market price [...]

Germany: Forest owners hardly benefit from the record lumber prices

Corona has caused the demand for wood in Germany to rise sharply - and with it the prices. But German forest [...]