Volumes and prices in roundwood trade, 11/2021

• Spruce logs fetched an average of EUR 64.9 per cubic metre in standing sales in November. It was the same as in October. The average price of pine logs decreased one per cent to EUR 60.3. The real price level of logs was three per cent lower than during the whole last year in standing sales.
• The standing sale price was EUR 19.6 per cubic metre for spruce pulpwood, EUR 17.3 for pine pulpwood and 17.0 for birch pulpwood. Compared to the previous month, the average price of pine pulpwood decreased four per cent, as spruce and birch went down two per cent. The average price level of pulpwood was 11 per cent lower than in last year.
• The roadside price for pine pulpwood was EUR 32.2, for spruce pulpwood EUR 33.4 and for birch pulpwood EUR 32.5 per cubic metre. The price of birch pulpwood increased one per cent from the previous month and the others remain unchanged. In delivery sales, the average price level of pulpwood was 11 per cent lower than in the whole last year.
• Trade of roundwood slowed down further in November. The trade diminished 14 per cent from the year before and was 17 per cent smaller than the average for the previous three years.
• However, the amount of industrial roundwood purchased in January–November rose by 33 per cent year-on-year and was 16 per cent higher than the average for the previous three years. Compared to the previous three years, the trade in logs increased by 31 per cent and the trade in pulpwood by three per cent.

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.