Trade of energywood, 4th quarter and year 2020

Fourth quarter of 2020 

• During the fourth quarter, logging residues made up two fifths of all energywood trade recorded in statistics. The average price paid for logging residues was EUR 4.2 per cubic metre in standing sales and EUR 17.7 per cubic metre in delivery sales. The price of logging residues increased by six per cent from the previous quarter in standing sales and decresed by two per cent in delivery sales.
• Pruned stemwood made up almost two fifths of all purchased energywood and was the most valuable energywood species. The average price paid for it was EUR 5.2 per cubic metre in standing sales and EUR 27.0 per cubic metre in delivery sales.  The unit price increased by 21 per cent in standing sales and by one per cent in delivery sales.

Year 2020

• The average price paid for energywood was EUR 4.2 per cubic metre in standing sales and EUR 23.9 per cubic metre in delivery sales. Compared with the previous year, the price increased by 29 per cent in standing sales and by nine per cent in delivery sales in real terms (deflation: wholesale price index).
• The average price paid for pruned stemwood was EUR 4.6 per cubic metre in standing sales and EUR 26.6 per cubic metre in delivery sales. The price went up by 20 per cent in standing sales and by six per cent in delivery sales.
• The average price paid for logging residues was EUR 3.9 per cubic metre in standing sales and EUR 17.7 per cubic metre in delivery sales. This was an increase of 38 per cent in standing sales and a rise of six per cent in delivery sales to the year before.
• Standing sales covered almost three quarters and delivery sales over one fourth of all trade recorded in statistics during the year. Pruned stemwood made up 47 per cent and logging residues accounted for 38 per cent of all energywood. Whole trees only covered 11 per cent and stumps three per cent.
• Energywood trade increased by one fourth from the previous year and reached the average volume during the previous five-year period.

Data of logging residues and total energywood in standing sales (2020/1 – 2020/3) has been revised February 11, 2021.

The recorded prices are based on prices entered in wood trade agreements. Any other increments and services related to wood trade are not included in the statistics. The prices do not include government subsidies.

The information is not rounded up to correspond to the total non-industrial private wood trade in Finland. This means that the published wood volumes represent only just over half of the energywood purchased from non-industrial private forests.