Volumes and prices in roundwood trade, 3/2021

• Trade of roundwood continued active in March. In the first quarter of 2021, a total of 9.5 million cubic metres of industrial roundwood were recorded in the Luke’s wood trade statistics. The trade grew by 36 per cent year-on-year in January-March and was one per cent higher than the previous three-year average. In comparison to earlier years, the trade of logs increased by 14 per cent and the trade of pulpwood decreased by 8 per cent.
• In March, the average stumpage price for pine logs was EUR 59.3 per cubic metre, and the price for spruce logs was EUR 63.3 per cubic metre. Compared to February, these prices rose one per cent.
• The stumpage price for pine pulpwood was EUR 18.3 per cubic metre, while the price for spruce pulpwood was EUR 20.4 and for birch pulpwood EUR 17.6 per cubic metre. The stumpage price level of pulpwood increased by two per cent from the previous month.
• The average roadside price for pine pulpwood was EUR 32.0, for spruce pulpwood EUR 33.9 and for birch pulpwood EUR 32.9 per cubic metre. The price for pine remained at the same level as in February. The price of spruce pulpwood increased three per cent and the price of birch 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.