In 2024, Finland exported around 8.17 million m³ of softwood lumber (incl. planed timber), recording a year-on-year decrease of 2%. Last year’s exports are 3% below the ten-year average (8.43 million m³).
An interesting shift in trade volumes can be observed in the MENA region. While a further increase was recorded in the main foreign market, Egypt (1.27 million m³; +15%), Algeria reduced its purchases of Finnish softwood lumber by 30% last year (270,000 m³).
Finnish suppliers also managed to increase shipments to the number two market, Japan, in 2024 (750,000 m³; +21%). As a result, Japan took second place from China, the number two foreign market in 2023. Last year, however, there was a slump in sales in China (650,000 m³; -37%). The country is now only in fifth place.
In the Datacube, you can track the development of Finnish softwood lumber exports in more detail – and all the way back until 2002.
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