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Increased roundwood sales and prices
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2014-04-23T10:00:00.000Z
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skogav, Commercial roundwood removals, timber price, quantity timber cut, felling, forest waste, spruce, pine, broad-leaved trees, firewood, pulp wood, saw logsForestry , Agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing
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Commercial roundwood removals, Q1 2014, preliminary figures

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Increased roundwood sales and prices

A total of 2.5 million cubic metres of timber were cut for sale in the first quarter of 2014. This is 10 per cent more than in the corresponding quarter of 2013. The average timber price rose by 11 per cent in the same period.

Commercial roundwood removalsPublished 23 April 2014
1st quarter 2014Price change, per cent
1000 cubic metresNOK per cubic metre1st quarter 2013 - 1st quarter 20141st quarter 2011 - 1st quarter 2014
Total2 48334511.3-7.3
 
Spruce
Saw logs1 03744415.91.8
Pulpwood773211-4.1-29.0
Unsorted saw logs813106.2-8.6
Pine
Saw logs34445614.60.4
Pulpwood213200-6.1-28.8
Unsorted saw logs10231-26.0-15.7
Broad-leaved
Saw logs1257-45.2-41.5
Pulpwood25228-9.24.6
Unsorted saw logs........

Source: Statistics Norway

In the first quarter of 2014, the aggregated gross value of roundwood sold to the manufacturing industry was NOK 856 million; 22 per cent more than in the corresponding quarter the previous year. According to preliminary calculations, forest owners obtained NOK 345 per cubic metre; an increase of NOK 35 compared with the first quarter of 2013.

In the same period, the average price per cubic metre of pulpwood of spruce and pine decreased by NOK 11 and the average price of saw logs of spruce and pine increased by NOK 61.