About 400 tons of Sawing Grade teak logs (SG5, SG6, and
SG7) were sold in early November by open tender for
local sawmillers and manufacturers... [more...]
The Myanmar Timber Merchants Association (MTMA)
and the Malaysian Timber Industry Board (MTIB) are
working on areas of collaboration and are drafting a
memorandum of understanding between the two bodies... [more...]
In mid September there was a further ‘Special Open
Tender’ for 920 h.tons of old stock teak logs of various
grades (SG7, SG8 and SG9) as well as some teak
thinnings held by the Myanma Timber Enterprise... [more...]
During the first quarter of the current fiscal year more than
80 per cent of all shipments of both teak and other
hardwoods from ocean ports in Myanmar went to India... [more...]