Tag: lumber export

  • North America Transportation : Challenges for 2015

    This week mediators stepped in, “prepared and ready to render prompt assistance” to end a six-month standoff between shippers and dockworkers that has worsened congestion and problems at the Port of Oakland, CA, and across the West Coast of the US. Transportation delays at the ports have occurred largely due to a combination of chassis…

  • Port Metro Vancouver

    This past spring about 1,300 union and non-union container truckers withdrew their services at British Columbia’s biggest port, in Vancouver, complaining of long wait times to pick up and drop off containers and the undercutting of rates. The 28-day strike was resolved at the end of March but it took almost six weeks to resolve…

  • Southern Pine Lumber Exports: June 2014

    USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service reported Friday exports of Southern Pine to be approximately 41.2 million board feet (MMbf) during June 2014. This volume represents an increase of just 2 per cent above the same month last year. But collectively, the first half of this year has recorded a hefty increase of 22 per cent when…

  • Madison’s 2Q 2014 Timber Industry Analysis and Projection

    We are very excited to release a brief snippet of the latest edition of our new product: MADISON’S QUARTERLY NORTH AMERICAN TIMBER INDUSTRY ANALYSIS AND PROJECTION Madison’s 2Q:14 Timber Preview check back here at the end of July for more on this vital information source!!

  • Madison’s 2Q 2014 Timber Industry Analysis and Projection

    We are very excited to release a brief snippet of the latest edition of our new product: MADISON’S QUARTERLY NORTH AMERICAN TIMBER INDUSTRY ANALYSIS AND PROJECTION Madison’s 2Q:14 Timber Preview check back here at the end of July for more on this vital information source!!