Volumes and prices in roundwood trade 2019

• In 2019, the average price paid for pine logs purchased from non-industrial private forests in standing sales was EUR 56.5 per cubic metre and the average price paid for spruce logs was EUR 59.9 per cubic metre. In real terms, the stumpage price level of logs was eight per cent lower than in the previous year (deflated using the wholesale price index).
• The average stumpage price was EUR 17.7 per cubic metre for pine pulpwood, EUR 19.5 for spruce pulpwood and EUR 16.8 for birch pulpwood. Pulpwood price level decreased by one per cent from the previous year.
• Prices paid for logs originating from regeneration felling were three per cent higher than average stumpage prices, while prices paid for pulpwood were 14 per cent higher. The price of logs harvested by means of thinning was 12 per cent lower than the average price, while that of pulpwood was six per cent lower.
• In 2019, pulpwood accounted for 73 per cent of the total delivery sales volume. The average roadside price was EUR 32.4 per cubic metre for pine pulpwood, EUR 34.5 for spruce pulpwood and EUR 32.9 for birch pulpwood. These prices developed in a different direction than stumpage prices: in real terms, the price of pulpwood increased by six per cent from the previous year.
• In 2019, a total of 36.2 million cubic metres of industrial roundwood purchased from non-industrial private forests were recorded in the wood trade statistics. Of this volume, standing sales accounted for five sixths and delivery sales for one sixth. Of all assortments, pine pulpwood was purchased the most, accounting for 30 per cent of the total wood trade volume. Spruce logs made up one fifth and pine logs one sixth of the total wood volume.
• The total wood trade volume decreased by 30 per cent from the peak year of 2018, being one fifth lower than the average level of the previous three years. Pulpwood trade decreased by one fifth and log trade by two fifths from the previous year.

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

Information for the statistics is collected from the largest wood buyers and from 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. As the collection of information on wood trade expanded in 2016, the wood trade volumes entered in the statistics since that year are comparable with each other.