OneFortyOne Plantations (OFO) has announced that as a result of strong domestic demand and the continued outperformance across the building industry, it has advised customers that there will be no sawlog exported from its estate for the next financial year. OneFortyOne Plantations CEO, Linda Sewell said: “The volume of sawlog we export has been steadily in[…]
New Zealand log exports hit a new record last year, underscoring the concerns of local manufacturers that the country is sending too many unprocessed logs overseas, posing a threat for local timber supply in the future and undermining the goal to add more value to exports. The country exported NZ$2.41 billion of softwood logs in[…]
Dubbed “The Wall of Wood”, it is the result of a spike in planting in the 1990s when log prices soared. Most wood is exported as logs, mainly to China, and Napier Port has made changes to the way it operates to accommodate the increase, including the ability to load logs from four berths. Port[…]
Timberland owners in Australia are increasingly exploring opportunities for the exportation of logs as an alternative to selling logs in the domestic market. From 2012 to 2016, the export volume was up 300%, and 2017 is likely to set a new record high, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly. Rising log prices in the export[…]
Wood products trade between China and Australia in the first half of 2017 the value of wood products trade between China and Australia rose 17% to US$1,680 million from the same period of 2016 reports www.Woodweek.com Of the total, the value of China’s wood products imports from Australia grew 23% to US$790 million. The value[…]
Sharp increase in log exports from US South to China in early 2017; future growth will be tough – Total southern yellow pine log exports from the US South to China in 2017-Q1 were 204,000 m3, nearly double the previous first quarter peak in 2015. Even more impressive was that the share of US log[…]
While BC forestry companies face a long-term decline in the annual allowable cut in the Interior, thanks to the mountain pine beetle infestation, BC companies on the coast have been exporting raw logs, mostly to China, in record volumes in recent years. According to a recent Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) report, one[…]
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives report prompts call for ban on log exports from old growth forests One of the planks in NDP Leader John Horgan’s election platform is made from raw logs (he wants their export “curtailed”), and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is helping him hammer it down trports Business Vancouver. Horgan[…]
The Gladstone Ports Corporation in Queensland now has the second largest log export operation in Australia, processing one shipment per month with a new woodchipping facility. The new log and woodchip is a collaborative effort to salvage timber plantations that were impacted in the Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Marcia earlier this year. Thousands of hectares[…]
TPP talks see Canada and Japan wrangle over log export protections – As Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations are heading to a finale, there is concern in Canada that its most protected industry, British Columbia timber is under increased pressure. Canada is also pushing for tariff reduction in other forestry markets, while Japan is targeting Canada[…]