Africa

Global trade of forest products goes on despite coronavirus pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic has negatively impacted the supply chains for numerous industry sectors worldwide the past few months.   [...]

European organisations call for FLEGT measures to be extended and deepened

While there was broad support for the FLEGT process and the EUTR, there was also a call for the FLEGT [...]

EU organisations to reaffirm their support for FLEGT and EUTR

Feedback received by the EC on their “fitness check” of the FLEGT and EUTR regulations indicates a high degree of [...]

Impact of pandemic on Gabon’s timber sector

The Minister of Forests in Gabon has issued a letter with wide ranging advice and guidance for timber companies whom [...]

Sharp drop in China’s tropical log imports

Tropical log imports in the first two months of 2020 amounted 1.30 million cubic metres, down 26% year on [...]

Impact of pandemic on Ghana’s tropical timber sector

    The economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the measures adopted to try and slow its [...]

Impact of pandemic on African tropical timber market

Almost all African countries are reporting cases of the coronavirus and as the number of cases continues to grow more [...]

Forestry companies in China increase overseas timber purchases in order to secure domestic supply

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread throughout the world, production in major wood-producing countries has stalled, the patterns [...]

Shortage of imported timber throws Chinese wood industry into panic

The demand for imported wood in China's wood products industry has gradually recovered. However, on the one hand, overseas [...]

Coronavirus: Skyrocketing timber prices in China as global supply falls sharply

In the recent period, coronavirus pandemic has reduced logging in many countries, overseas container costs and sea freight prices have [...]