Changing timber trade flows and price dynamics across the Baltic Sea region

As the timber price frenzy is ongoing in Sweden, even Norway's timber market has come to life as timber flows in the Baltic Sea region change directions. "In Sweden, the price of timber has even doubled in two years. Sweden is also becoming an exporter of timber instead of an importer," describes Per Hedberg, the Swedish CFO of Treebula, a platform facilitating timber transactions. The background of this development is the disruption of timber imports from Russia due to sanctions. As the demand for timber, especially for energy, increases, raw timber has become a scarcity in the ...