Volumes and prices in roundwood trade, 9/2021

• Spruce logs fetched an average of EUR 65.4 per cubic metre in standing sales in September. This was one per cent less compared to August. The average price of pine logs remained in EUR 61.6. The real price level of logs was one per cent higher than average standing sales price of the whole last year.
• The standing sale price was EUR 20.2 per cubic metre for spruce pulpwood, EUR 17.9 for pine pulpwood and 17.5 for birch pulpwood. The average price level of pulpwood was one per cent lower than in August and seven per cent lower than in last year.
• The roadside price for pine pulpwood was EUR 32.3, for spruce pulpwood EUR 33.5 and for birch pulpwood EUR 32.7 per cubic metre. In delivery sales, the average price level of pulpwood remained the same as in the previous month and was eight per cent lower than in last year.
• In September, roundwood trade of non-industrial, private forests was 21 per cent higher than the average for the previous three years.
• The amount of industrial roundwood purchased in January–September rose by 47 per cent year-on-year and was 27 per cent higher than the average for the previous three years. Compared to the previous three years, the trade in logs increased by 48 per cent and the trade in pulpwood by 10 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.