Africa

European softwood lumber exports move from China to Egypt

In the first two months of 2020, Chinese imports of softwood lumber was 7.9% down y-o-y to [...]

African tropical timber market impacted by the coronavirus crisis

    As the coronavirus pandemic is expanding in many countries of the world, the tropical timber market [...]

Growth in EU tropical timber imports continues in 2019

Despite a downturn in the last six months of 2019, EU imports of tropical wood products last year were greater [...]

Overview of the global forest industry in 2019

    Global trade of softwood logs in 2019 remained practically unchanged from 2018 at 93 million m3 [...]

Container lines face sharp fall in revenues as coronavirus crisis continues

Container lines could be facing a $17bn shortfall in revenues this year as developed economies’ efforts to halt the spread [...]