Volumes and prices in roundwood trade, 1/2021

• Roundwood trade was quite brisk in January. In total, 3.5 million cubic metres of industrial roundwood procured from non-industrial, private forests was recorded in statistics. This was 15 per cent less than the earlier three-year average. The trade of logs almost kept pace with earlier figures but the trade of pulpwood fall about one fourth behind.
• In January, the average stumpage price for pine logs was EUR 58.1 per cubic metre, and the price for spruce logs was EUR 61.9 per cubic metre. These prices remained at the same level as in the previous month. However, in real terms the stumpage price level of logs was five per cent higher compared to the average in whole year 2020.
• The stumpage price for pine pulpwood was EUR 17.8 per cubic metre, while the price for spruce pulpwood was EUR 19.9 and for birch pulpwood EUR 17.2 per cubic metre. The stumpage price level of pulpwood decreased two per cent from December to the mean in whole year 2020.
• The method of felling affects the stumpage price paid for the wood. The price of logs harvested from regeneration fellings was three per cent higher than the average stumpage price paid for all logs. In thinnings the price of logs was 15 per cent below the average price. In the case of pulpwood, the difference in stumpage price was respectively in regeneration fellings +11 per cent, in thinnings –8 per cent and in first thinnings –30 per cent.
• Delivery sales are typically dominated by pulpwood and in January pulpwood assortments accounted for two thirds of the total roundwood trade by delivery sales. The mean roadside price for pine pulpwood was EUR 31.8, for spruce pulpwood EUR 32.9 and for birch pulpwood EUR 32.4 per cubic metre. Pine pulpwood went down one per cent and the price of spruce and birch pulpwood went up one 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.