Volumes and prices in roundwood trade, 11/2020

• The price of logs kept increasing in standing sales in November. The average price for pine logs was EUR 56.2 per cubic metre and the price for spruce logs was EUR 60.6 per cubic metre. This was three and five per cent more than the average price of year 2019 in real terms.
• The price for pine pulpwood was EUR 17.6, the price for spruce pulpwood EUR 20.2 and the price for birch pulpwood EUR 17.1. These prices increased two to three per cent from October and ended up five per cent higher than the average price of the previous year.
• The roadside price for pine pulpwood was EUR 31.9, for spruce pulpwood EUR 32.6 and for birch pulpwood EUR 32.0 per cubic metre. The roadside price level of pulpwood went down one per cent compared to the previous month.
• Roundwood purchases of non-industrial, private forests included in the statistics amounted to 4.5 million cubic metres in November. It was 45 per cent more than in the previous year.
• The trade in January–November fell three per cent behind the previous year and was almost one fifth less than the average of the corresponding periods of the previous three years. Compared to the preceding year the volume of logs increased by six per cent and the volume of pulpwood dropped by ten per cent.

Statistics of volumes and prices in industrial roundwood trade revised on 14 October 2020. Read the bulletin.

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.