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Volumes and prices in roundwood trade, 10/2021

Published 24.11.2021
  • Spruce logs fetched an average of EUR 65.1 per cubic metre in standing sales in October. It was the same as in September. The average price of pine logs decreased one per cent to EUR 61.2. In standing sales in October, the real price level of logs was one per cent lower than during the whole last year.
  • The standing sale price was EUR 20.0 per cubic metre for spruce pulpwood, EUR 18.0 for pine pulpwood and 17.2 for birch pulpwood. The average price of pine pulpwood increased one per cent, as spruce and birch went down one per cent compared to the previous month. The average price level of pulpwood was nine per cent lower than in last year.
  • The roadside price for pine pulpwood was EUR 32.1, for spruce pulpwood EUR 33.4 and for birch pulpwood EUR 32.0 per cubic metre. The price of birch pulpwood decreased two per cent and the others remain unchanged. In delivery sales, the average price level of pulpwood was 10 per cent lower than in the whole last year.
  • Trade of roundwood slowed down somewhat in October. The trade diminished one per cent from the year before and was 20 per cent smaller than the average for the previous three years.
  • The amount of industrial roundwood purchased in January–October rose by 40 per cent year-on-year and was 20 per cent higher than the average for the previous three years. Compared to the previous three years, the trade in logs increased by 38 per cent and the trade in pulpwood by six per cent.

 

The recorded prices are based on prices entered in wood trade agreements between the buyers and sellers. Any other increments and services related to wood trade are not included in the statistics.

Wood trade data for statistics are provided by the largest buyers of wood and forest management associations. As the information is not rounded up to correspond to the total non-industrial private wood trade in Finland, the published wood volumes only represent just over 90 per cent of the wood purchased by forest industries from non-industrial private forests.

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