Volumes and prices in roundwood trade 2017

The average stumpage price for pine logs was EUR 54.9 per cubic metre in 2017. Stumpage price for spruce logs was EUR 57.8 per cubic metre. The price paid for pine pulpwood in standing sales was EUR 15.9 per cubic metre, while the price for paid for spruce pulpwood was EUR 17.7 per cubic metre. The nominal prices of roundwood increased from the previous year, but the real stumpage price level still decreased by one per cent (deflated using wholesale price index).

The stumpage price for logs harvested by regeneration felling was two per cent and for pulpwood 12 per cent higher than the average stumpage price. The price for logs harvested by thinning was 15 per cent and and for pulpwood eight per cent lower than the average stumpage price. Wood harvested in the course of a first thinning fetched 29 per cent less than the average stumpage price.

The delivery sales were mostly made up of pulpwood. The average delivery price of pine pulpwood was EUR 27.7, that of spruce pulpwood was EUR 30.1 and that of birch pulpwood was EUR 28.0 per cubic metre in 2017. Like the stumpage prices, the real delivery prices also decreased from the previous year.

Roundwood trade was very active in 2017, as the roundwood purchases of the forest industry from non-industrial private forests totalled 43.3 million cubic metres. This was five per cent more than in 2016. Of the different types of roundwood assortments, spruce logs and pine pulpwood were traded the most, 11 million cubic metres each.

The collection of data for the statistics expanded in 2016 when it also started covering forest management associations and certain medium-sized forest industry companies. The volumes of wood reported by the parties providing information are recorded in the statistics as received, and the figures in the statistics represent over 90 per cent of the wood purchased by the forest industry from non-industrial private forests. The expansion of the data collection caused a break in the homogeneity of the time series, which is why the current wood trade volumes are not comparable with the figures in the statistics up to 2015. The years 2016 and 2017 are comparable with each other.

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