Trade of energywood, 1st quarter 2019

• Half of the wood purchased as raw material for forest chips was logging residues in the first quarter of 2019.
• The average price paid for it was EUR 3.2 per cubic metre in standing sales and EUR 16.8 in delivery sales. In standing sales the price were down by 17 per cent and in delivery sales it were up by seven per cent compared to the previous quarter.
• Share of pruned stems was two fifths of energywood sales.
• This was the most valuable type of energywood; the average price paid for it was EUR 4.1 per cubic metre in standing sales and EUR 25.5 in delivery sales.
• In standing sales the unit price of pruned stems decreased by nine per cent and in delivery sales increased by three per cent compared to the previous quarter.

Prices and volumes of logging residues and total energywood in delivery sales for the whole of 2018 and for the third and the fourth quarters of 2018 have been revised 21 May 2019.

The trade statistics are based on the wood prices written into wood trade contracts between buyers and sellers. Other additional pricing components and forest services connected to wood trade are not included in the statistics.

The recorded prices do not include government subsidy and the prices may also be negative. Subsidy payments were rejected 7.5.2016–19.4.2017, after which applications have been accepted again.