Container shortages challenge logistics
NewsFinland’s forestry businesses and port operators have had to adapt to acute container shortages in the eastern Baltic....
Lumber prices falling
NewsPrices for residential construction framing lumber in the US market have fallen steeply in 2022. By mid August, the index for 1,000 board fe...
Golden Bullet forest win
NewsHolmen Skog will be the first forestry company in Sweden to use Golden Bullet 2, touted by rail company Green Cargo AB as the most efficient...
More timber moving by rail
NewsA new rail freight terminal for timber has opened in Rundvik, Swsseden. Financed by the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth, the...
Forestry majors make their pitch
NewsMajor production developments are under way in Finland and Sweden, with new port facilities being added...
Uruguayan log barges
NewsUruguay’s Transfluvial Navegación has renewed a contract to transport logs to the Montes del Plata pulp mill in Punta Pereira for a furth...
SCA investing in Tunadal
NewsThe Swedish forestry products major is investing around SEK460M between 2021 and 2024 to expand cargo handling at Tunadal in Sundsvall...
Go-ahead for Klabin
NewsBrazil’s Land and Water Institute (IAT), which reports to the country’s Secretariat for Sustainable Development and Tourism, has authori...
Ambitious Brake seeking bigger role in Nordic and Russian forest products
NewsJ Müller Group has commissioned two new sheds dedicated to handling forestry pulp at its facility on the Niedersachsenkai in Germany’s Po...
Gothenburg set to break the mould
NewsThe Port of Gothenburg will shortly add major breakbulk forestry product capability to its leading gateway role in Swedish unitised shipment...
New port in Argentina
NewsTwo bids have been received to build phase one of the new port at ItuzaingĂł...
REEF wants to sell LHG stake
NewsREEF, part of Deutsche Bank AG, wants to sell its 37.2% stake in LĂĽbecker Hafen Gesellschaft mbH...
Finland’s port market is pulping up
NewsFinnpulp’s €1.6B project is probably the biggest talking point in the Finnish port and logistics sectors since the Port of Helsinki crea...
Contract handling for Kalmar
NewsKalmar has secured another performance-based inbound logistics handling contract in the Nordic forestry industry, this time with Metsä Fibr...
Hyster clamps up on reel handling
NewsHyster Europe has introduced a gate on the hydraulic clamping function of its clamp trucks for paper reel handlers, which
prevents the clamp...