Volumes and prices in roundwood trade, 3/2022

• Roundwood trade continued at a slow pace also in March. The trade of industrial roundwood diminished 20 per cent from the year before and was 19 per cent smaller than the average for the previous five years.
• In January–March, the trade decreased 20 per cent year-on-year and was 22 per cent smaller than during the previous five years. Compared to the previous five years, the trade in logs diminished by 19 per cent and the trade in pulpwood by 25 per cent.
• Spruce logs fetched an average of EUR 65.8 per cubic metre in standing sales in March. In real terms, this was one per cent less than in February. The average price of pine logs decreased also one per cent to EUR 62.0. The real price level of logs was four per cent lower than during the whole previous year in standing sales.
• The standing sale price was EUR 20.1 per cubic metre for spruce pulpwood, EUR 17.9 for pine pulpwood and 17.4 for birch pulpwood. Price of spruce pulpwood remained at the level of February, pine and birch went down one per cent. The real price level of pulpwood was six per cent lower than in the whole previous year.
• Delivery sales are typically dominated by pulpwood and in March pulpwood assortments accounted for two thirds of the total roundwood trade by delivery sales. The mean roadside price for pine pulpwood decreased from the previous month two per cent to EUR 32.1. The average price of spruce fell five per cent to EUR 33.6 and the price of birch dropped four per cent to EUR 32.3.

Unit prices in roundwood trade are recorded in the statistical database at the fair prices valid each time. However, price changes are examined in the texts and graphs in real terms by eliminating the change in value using the cost-of-living index. Before February 2022, the wholesale price index was used in this calculation.

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 about 90 per cent of the wood purchased by forest industries from non-industrial private forests.