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2015-04-22T10:00:00.000Z
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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. Increased roundwood sales.

Commercial roundwood removals, Q1 2015, preliminary figures

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A total of 2.7 million cubic metres of timber were cut for sale in the 1st quarter of 2015. This is 7 per cent more than in the corresponding quarter of 2014. The average timber price rose by 2 per cent in the same period.

Commercial roundwood removalsPublished 22 April 2015
1st quarter 2015Price change, per cent
1000 cubic metresNOK per cubic metre1st quarter 2014 - 1st quarter 20151st quarter 2012 - 1st quarter 2015
Total2 6663511.74.5
 
Spruce
Saw logs1 1244532.015.9
Pulpwood773208-1.4-21.8
Unsorted saw logs1083316.87.5
Pine
Saw logs3694672.416.2
Pulpwood245196-2.0-22.8
Unsorted saw logs1227217.7-15.5
Broad-leaved
Saw logs0:::
Pulpwood35:::
Unsorted saw logs........

Source: Statistics Norway

The aggregated gross value of roundwood sold to the manufacturing industry was NOK 937 million in the first quarter of 2015; an increase of NOK 80 million compared with the corresponding quarter in 2014. According to preliminary calculations, forest owners obtained NOK 351 per cubic metre; an increase of NOK 6 compared with the first quarter of 2014.

31 per cent exported

Preliminary external trade figures show that 840 000 cubic metres of timber were exported in the first quarter of 2015, which is 31 per cent of all timber cut for sale in this period.