Keyword: New Zealand

Russia and New Zealand compete over timber exports to China

Russia is currently China's largest timber source. In 2018, Russian exports to China reached 15.65 million cubic meters [...]

New Zealand: New sawmill planned on former Waverley Sawmills site

While Waverley Sawmills is closed for business its new owner has been working towards a modern state-of-the-art [...]

New Zealand log prices dragged down by Chinese imports from Europe coming by train

    New Zealand logs are piling up on Chinese wharves as cheap sawn timber arrives by train [...]

Export prices for New Zealand’s logs start to fall

    Prices for New Zealand domestic log sales in June are mostly unchanged from May as we [...]

New Zealand’s logs expected to enter in the Chinese market in large volumes in the next years

    The radiata pine plantations planted in New Zealand in the mid-to-late 1980s have now [...]

China and New Zealand sign arrangement for forestry cooperation

    New Zealand and China signed an arrangement this week for future forestry cooperation and boosting bilateral [...]

CLT manufacturer XLam announces operations closure at New Zealand plant

    The CLT manufacturer XLam announced that it will close its New Zealand plant in Nelson.   [...]

New Zealand’s logs price decreases, as Chinese market uncertain

The price of logs transported to the ports around New Zealand dropped by an average of NZ$7 in April [...]

New Zealand, top softwood logs exporter for China in 2018

China had another record year of softwood log imports in 2018, when over 40 million m3 of logs landed at [...]

New Zealand: Export prices of logs impacted by rising ocean freight costs

At Wharf Gate (AWG) prices for logs delivered to ports around New Zealand decreased on average -NZ$5 per JASm3 [...]