Africa

Unusually long period of price stability for African hardwoods

For the past 2-3 months there has been little movement in the market and prices have been stable with [...]

September 28, 2017

African countries have pledged to tame illegal trade in timber and other forest products by ensuring that the sub-sector [...]

September 27, 2017

The volume and value of Ghana’s timber exports has been falling in each of the past five months. [...]

September 21, 2017

Tropical log imports into the EU fell in 2016 and this decline continued in the first half of 2017. EU [...]

September 18, 2017

There are some signs of a slight weakening in prices for a few of the less popular species and sipo [...]

September 13, 2017

Prices for Ghana's exported wood products are the following between 16-31 August 2017: Boule [...]

September 13, 2017

International trade of softwood lumber is on pace to a new record high in 2017 if the trend from the [...]

September 13, 2017

In the first half of 2017 compared to the same period in 2016, total EU imports of tropical timber products [...]

September 11, 2017

Global value and volumes of timber, pulpwood, softwood lumber and biomass products have increased during the 2nd quarter of 2017 [...]

September 5, 2017

Log and sawnwood FOB prices in Central/West Africa remained unchanged through into early August and producers appear confident that [...]

August 31, 2017