Volumes and prices in roundwood trade, 12/2021

• Spruce logs fetched an average of EUR 65.2 per cubic metre in standing sales in December. It was one per cent more than in November. The average price of pine logs increased also one per cent to EUR 60.9. The real price level of logs was three per cent lower than during the whole previous year in standing sales.
• The standing sale price was EUR 19.7 per cubic metre for spruce pulpwood, EUR 17.7 for pine pulpwood and 17.1 for birch pulpwood. Prices went up a bit compared to the month before. The average price level of pulpwood was 12 per cent lower than in the whole previous year.
• The roadside price for pine pulpwood was EUR 32.1, for spruce pulpwood EUR 33.8 and for birch pulpwood EUR 32.3 per cubic metre. These prices were almost the same as in the month before. In delivery sales, the average price level of all pulpwood was 12 per cent lower than in the whole previous year.
• Trade of roundwood slowed down in December. The trade diminished 16 per cent from the year before and was 10 per cent smaller than the average for the previous three years.
• However, the amount of industrial roundwood purchased in January–December rose by 27 per cent year-on-year and was 13 per cent higher than the average for the previous three years. Compared to the previous three years, the trade in logs increased by 27 per cent and the trade in pulpwood by two 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.