Volumes and prices in roundwood trade, 7/2021

• Trade of roundwood in non-industrial private forests was exceptionally active in July as 2.5 million solid cubic metres of wood were recorded in the wood trade statistics. This was only 30 per cent of the volume in June, but the largest amount of wood ever recorded in statistics during July.
• The amount of industrial roundwood purchased in January-July rose by 56 per cent year-on-year and was 30 per cent higher than the average for the previous three years. Compared to the previous three years, the trade in logs increased by 53 per cent and the trade in pulpwood by 11 per cent.
• Spruce logs fetched an average of EUR 66.9 per cubic metre in standing sales in July. This was three per cent less compared to June. The average price of pine logs decreased by six per cent to EUR 61.2. However, the real price level of logs was five per cent higher than last year’s average standing sales price.
• The standing sale price was EUR 17.7 per cubic metre for pine pulpwood, EUR 20.5 for spruce pulpwood and 17.8 for birch pulpwood. In standing sales, the average price of pulpwood fell by nine per cent from the previous month and by four per cent from last year.
• Pulpwood assortments accounted for almost two thirds of the total roundwood trade by delivery sales. The roadside price for pine pulpwood was EUR 32.1, for spruce pulpwood EUR 34.0 and for birch pulpwood EUR 32.2 per cubic metre. In delivery sales, the average price of pulpwood fell by one per cent from the previous month and by six per cent from last year.

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.