Having trended steadily downwards over several years, until the end of 2013, sales of softwood poles, have seen a more than year-long renaissance, growing by 19.85% for the year to end Januar…

Sales of domestically produced, treated and seasoned sawn structural pine climbed throughout 2014, setting new monthly records along the way. By the end of January 2015, full year sales tot…

Since slumping to a record low of just USD509 in mid-February, the Baltic Dry Index (BDI), which measures the price of bulk dry shipping, has steadily increased to USD568 at the close on 10th Ma…

Australia’s economic growth, measured by Gross Domestic Product, (GDP) declined to 2.5% for the year to the end of December 2014. Seasonally adjusted December Quarter GDP was just 0.5%, con…

As growth in retail sales slowed across the Australian economy in the fourth quarter of 2014, key industries from the forestry and wood products sector’s perspective grew more strongly, con…

Approvals of housing loans, for all of the major purposes, has grown steadily since the middle of 2012. Though much of the attention has been on the growth in the value of loans to investors, the…

Continued growth resulted in total residential dwelling approvals for the year to end January 2015 topping the 200,000 mark for the first time since 1974, with only limited signs of abatemen…

mports of sawn softwood rose 42.2% in January 2015, compared with January 2014, reaching AUD31.5 million, just AUD0.2 million below the record set in October 2014. After modest and probably…