Trade of energywood, 2nd quarter 2016

• Share of logging residues increased to half of energywood sales in the second quarter of 2016. The average price paid for it was EUR 3.1 per cubic metre in standing sales and EUR 15.4 in delivery sales. These prices were up by 3 per cent compared to the previous quarter.

• Two fifths of the wood purchased as raw material for forest chips was pruned stemwood. This was the most valuable type of energywood; the average price paid for it was EUR 3.3 per cubic metre in standing sales and EUR 22.8 in delivery sales.

• In standing sales the price of pruned stems decreased EUR 2.2, or by 40 per cent compared to the previous quarter. In delivery sales, the unit price remained the same.

• The extent of data collection of statistic fluctuates. Excluding that, the amount of energywood purchased in standing sales was 6 per cent lower and that in delivery sales 30 per cent lower compared with the corresponding period of last year.

The following corrections have been made 29th August 2016: prices and volumes of pruned stems in standing sales in the first quarter of 2016.

The recorded prices may also be negative as they do not include government subsidy, which was received by a considerable portion of pruned and unpruned stems.