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Increased sales and prices
statistikk
2014-11-06T10:00:00.000Z
Agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing
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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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The statististics shows commercial roundwood removals. There were increased sales of timber and higher prices in the third quarter of 2014.

Commercial roundwood removalsQ3 2014, preliminary figures

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Increased sales and prices

A total of 2.3 million cubic metres of timber were cut for sale in the third quarter of 2014; an increase of 10 per cent from the corresponding quarter in 2013. In the same period, the average price per cubic metre of timber increased by 16 per cent.

Commercial roundwood removals
3rd quarter 2014Price change, per cent
1000 cubic metresNOK per cubic metre3rd quarter 2013 - 3rd quarter 20143rd quarter 2011 - 3rd quarter 2014
Total2 30833915.7-5.3
 
Spruce
Saw logs94745316.84.9
Pulpwood7772111.4-29.2
Unsorted saw logs7732712.8-2.4
Pine
Saw logs22747019.98.5
Pulpwood227198-3.4-30.8
Unsorted saw logs10242:-26.0
Broad-leaved
Saw logs1:::
Pulpwood422171.9-0.9
Unsorted saw logs........

The aggregated gross value of roundwood sold to the manufacturing industry was NOK 782 million in the third quarter of 2014; an increase of 27 per cent compared with the corresponding quarter in 2013. On average, the forest owners obtained NOK 339 per cubic metre of timber; an increase of NOK 46.