Volumes and prices in roundwood trade, 12/2020

• Roundwood trade was very active in December, as recorded trade ended up to 4.2 million cubic metres. This was 14 per cent more than the earlier three-year average.
• The average price for pine logs was EUR 57.7 per cubic metre, and the price for spruce logs was EUR 61.7 per cubic metre in standing sales in December. The real price level of logs increased two per cent from the previous month and was six per cent higher than the average in whole year 2019.
• The stumpage price for pine pulpwood was EUR 18.2, the price for spruce pulpwood EUR 20.5 and the price for birch pulpwood EUR 17.3 per cubic metre. The average price level of pulpwood increased two per cent from the previous month and ended up seven per cent higher than the average price of year 2019.
• In December, the roadside price for pine pulpwood was EUR 32.1, for spruce pulpwood EUR 32.6 and for birch pulpwood EUR 32.2 per cubic metre. Prices remained on the same level as in the previous month.
• Altogether 36.9 million cubic metres of industrial roundwood from non-industrial, private forests was recorded in monthly statistics in 2020. The total trade increased two per cent compared to the year 2019 but was 15 per cent smaller than the earlier three-year average. The volume of pulpwood (19.1 million cubic metres) decreased seven per cent from the previous year and the volume of logs (16.4 million cubic metres) increased 14 per cent. Trade rose with all roundwood assortments of spruce.

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.