Asia & Middle East

Indonesian timber imports into the EU threatened by new deforestation law

    Indonesian officials have slammed the European Union’s proposal of a regulation that they say negates [...]

Ocean freights drop sharply as global trade slows down

In 2021, the skyrocketing shipping prices have made the world's major shipping companies more profitable, but now, such good [...]

Indonesia slows wood product exports to China and US

According to data recently released by the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry, as of September this year, Indonesia's [...]

India: Logs and sawn timber import demand slows

Economic activity started slowing in India in the middle of October as preparations commenced for Diwali (Festival of Lights) on [...]

Vietnam’s wood trade under pressure due to logging, Ukraine war

Reputational risks are piling up for a Vietnamese lumber industry already beset by a falloff in demand from the heights [...]

Brazil, Uruguary wood chip exports rise, Chile shipments decline

Eucalyptus plantations in Latin America are a significant supply source to pulpmills in China and Japan. However, the Latin American [...]

Global softwood log trade drops by 20%

    A halt in Russian log exports and reduced wood demand in China contributed to a 20 [...]

FAO: Consumption of primary processed wood products predicted to grow 37 percent by 2050

Overall consumption of primary processed wood products is expected to grow 37 percent by 2050 in a business-as-usual [...]

Global trade of softwood lumber on a downward trend

Global trade of softwood lumber fell about 10% in the first half of 2022. Most of the decline was driven [...]

Vietnam boosts wood pellet exports and prices

Vietnam has emerged as the world’s second largest exporter of wood pellets, one of the important export items of [...]