Chinese softwood log imports down almost 38%

The Uruguayan forest and wood-industry company Lumin Forest Products LLC. of Montevideo has heavily increased its shipments of pine roundwood to China and India. In January 2023, Lumin loaded and dispatched three break-bulk carriers with a combined total of over 81,000 m³ of roundwood. The last of the three ships, MV...

At the end of the several-week-long holiday period in China following Chinese New Year on 22 January 2023, there are signs of an upturn in business with softwood logs. After the seasonally typical purchasing restraint had been much more significant at the end of last year, many Chinese purchasers of spruce roundwood...

In 2022, the volume of softwood logs imported into China dropped by 37.5% to a total of 31.16m m³ (2021: 49.88m m³). The decline already observable in summer thus continued in the final months of last year. Already at the end of August and the end of July, calculations of the General Administration of Customs China...