Global supply chain crisis could extend into 2023
The supply chain crisis threatening the global economy risks lasting at least another year unless governments [...]
October 28, 2021
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HS Timber plans to build a 500,000 m³/yr sawmill in Argentina
HS Timber Group, the former Schweighofer Group, plans to build a new sawmill in Gobernador Virasoro [...]
October 18, 2021
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Q3/2021 trends in the global forest industry
Softwood sawlog prices have gone up in worldwide in the past year. By far, the most [...]
September 28, 2021
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China: Port congestions impact log supply
Log stocks in China have not increased but there is a lot of volume on boats queuing at Chinese ports [...]
September 23, 2021
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Demand for hardwood in Europe has surged – prices have hit new highs
It’s been six months plus of extremes and superlatives in the European sawn hardwood sector. Importers, distributors and merchants [...]
September 21, 2021
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Global timber supply chains could be hit hard by the Delta variant
Vietnam’s exports of timber and its wood products are facing a crisis since the Delta variant outbreak hit in [...]
September 16, 2021
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Global shipping bottlenecks set to prolong supply chain turmoil
Tenfold jump in costs since start of pandemic squeezes importers and exporters The closure of a [...]
September 14, 2021
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Demand for softwood logs demand in China expected to increase in September
Softwood log inventory in China has not risen in the last month and sits around 5 [...]
September 9, 2021
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Highest EU tropical wood imports since 2012
EU27 imports of tropical wood and wooden furniture started this year slowly in January and February but surged to US [...]
September 6, 2021
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China: Sharp rise in value of log imports in H1/2021
According to China Customs, log imports in the first half of 2021 totalled 31.26 million cubic metres valued at [...]
August 25, 2021
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