Asia & Middle East

Japanese corporations take over global forest investor

New Forests, a Sydney-based Australian investment company that invests in natural assets worldwide, including sustainably managed forests, is to [...]

India: Wood import market blocked due to cargo issues and fumigation rules

Kandla port is forecast to be very busy with four log vessels arriving from Uruguay and Argentina as well as [...]

Japan’s lumber industry under pressure due to ban on Russian wood

    The global lumber industry has been through a tumultuous period over the past year or so [...]

Global supply-chain congestion shows signs of easing

Port bottlenecks that have increased supply-chain congestion because of the war in Ukraine and lockdowns in China may be [...]

Intense negotiations underway on EU “deforestation free” law

Intense negotiations continue within the European Council and European Parliament towards agreement of a final text of the law "on [...]

China: Cargo backlogs in Shanghai could cause next supply chain shockwave

Concern is growing that the spread of COVID cases and city lockdowns in China will have massive downstream effects for [...]

Lumber prices rise in Japan as builders run out of Russian wood

    Lumber prices have reached record highs in Japan since economic sanctions were imposed against Russia, leading [...]

Japan bans the import of Russian timber

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida recently announced that he will stop importing some Russian timber products from this week.  [...]

New Zealand’s forestry sector hopes fumigation alternative will unlock Indian market

    New Zealand's forestry sector is hopeful exports to India will resume now the Environmental Protection [...]