Volumes and prices in roundwood trade, 4/2021

• Trade of roundwood in non-industrial private forests was active also in April and a rise in prices continued. The trade of industrial roundwood grew by one fifth year-on-year in January-April and was two per cent higher than the previous three-year average. In comparison to earlier three years, the trade of logs increased by 16 per cent and the trade of pulpwood decreased by nine per cent.
• In April, the average stumpage price for pine logs was EUR 61.7 per cubic metre, and the price for spruce logs was EUR 65.7 per cubic metre. In real terms, the stumpage price level of logs rose four per cent from March and was seven per cent higher than the average in 2020.
• The stumpage price for pine pulpwood was EUR 19.0 per cubic metre, while the price for spruce pulpwood was EUR 21.0 and for birch pulpwood EUR 17.9 per cubic metre. The stumpage price level of pulpwood increased by three per cent from the previous month.
• The average roadside price for pine pulpwood was EUR 32.0, for spruce pulpwood EUR 33.7 and for birch pulpwood EUR 32.6 per cubic metre. The price level remained the same as in March.

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.