world news - 22.04.2009
Reduced domestic purchase and import of timber in Norway
In January
and February the volume of timber purchased and sold by the
co-operatives was somewhat over 905.000 cubic metres. The decrease is
almost 270.000 cubic metres, i.e. 23 % compared to the same period last
year. The most important decrease concerned saw timber where purchases
and sales to industry were only 230.000 cubic metres, i.e. 35 % less
than in the period January — February 2008. 
It is not surprising that the volume of timber purchased by the
Norwegian forest owners’ co-operatives for further sale to industry has
decreased considerably in the two first months of the year. Also
imports have decreased steeply.
In the first two months of the year timber imports amounted to only
184.000 cubic metres. That is a reduction of 133.000 cubic metres, i.e.
42 % compared to last year. Most of the imports come from Sweden.
See also:
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- — The forest industry in Finland reduces its dependence on logs from Russia in 2008
- — Europe could become strategic biofuel market for Russia
- — Russia’s role in the global forestry sector and its prospects for the future
- — Estonian Wood Manufacturing Falls Sharply