the timber network

With a total volume of 27,890 m3 in December, German exports of beech logs were right between the September ’08 and the October ’08 levels. The highest export volume in the second half of 2008 was reached in September (34,000 m3) and the lowest in October (17,900 m3).
In the first half of 2008, exports soared in April (105,000 m3), while the lowest exports were recorded in January and May with 67,000 m3 each. Beech log exports narrowed by 16% in 2008, to 635,700 m3. The biggest drops were recorded by volumes exported to Sweden (-45,600 m3) and China (-44,300 m3). In terms of percentage, deliveries to Poland and Italy saw the biggest declines, plunging by 48,8% and 37%, respectively.

Beech raw wood, saw log, m3 - Export	Volume (m3)				Value (Mil. €)
	Dec. 2007	Dec. 2008	Jan-Dec 2007	Jan-Dec 2008	Dec. 2007	Dec. 2008	Jan-Dec 2007	Jan-Dec 2008
Austria	8,562	9,387	132,592	130,363	0.51	0.58	8.35	8.46
China	17,539	8,360	328,472	284,183	2.42	1.00	40.05	34.08
Italy	1,463	3,116	36,707	23,135	0.10	0.34	3.36	2.29
Japan	1,138	2,804	16,806	16,062	0.20	0.53	2.88	2.80
Denmark	2,787	934	38,047	32,842	0.20	0.07	2.63	2.43
France	593	655	4,556	4,405	0.09	0.06	0.48	0.40
Sweden	6,283	615	146,553	100,976	0.43	0.05	10.01	7.70
Czech Republic	1,804	468	9,820	6,894	0.15	0.03	0.93	0.57
Vietnam	264	422	10,644	8,568	0.02	0.05	1.40	0.84
Netherlands	181	301	1,928	4,360	0.02	0.02	0.15	0.30
India	157	287	2,065	3,454	0.02	0.03	0.29	0.48
Poland	257	153	10,522	5,389	0.02	0.03	1.46	0.57
Pakistan	-	131	355	538	-	0.01	0.05	0.06
TOTAL	42,148	27,888	760,525	635,734	4.37	2.85	75.17	63.22