Category: Lumber News

  • It’s Getting Crowded in Here. . .

    Your weekly Madison’s Lumber Reporter is bursting at the seams! Over the next few weeks there will be new content added, mostly taken from the data sets we have been working for the quarterly Forest Pulse. (sample download here: http://162.213.156.131/~madisonsreport/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/mclr010915.pdf ) There will be additional pages added to the newsletter make room for this important…

  • 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…

  • U.S. Softwood Lumber Industry Activity : Oct 2014

    Using the latest trade statistics, the Western Wood Products Association found US Softwood Lumber Apparent Consumption for January to October 2014 (at 35.7 billion fbm), up 7.1 per cent over the same time period in 2013. Lumber imports, meanwhile, are up 12.3 per cent. The latest issue of the WWPA’s Lumber Track, out Monday, found…

  • Increased 2014 US Lumber Production / 2014 BC Lumber Exports to US

    US lumber demand continued to strengthen in 2014 as home construction experienced modest but sustainable gains over 2013, according to estimates by Western Wood Products Association released Friday. As well, the value of British Columbia lumber exports to US for Jan – Nov 2014 ($2,792 million) surpassed full-year 2013 ($2,558 million), data released by BC…

  • Canada Softwood Lumber Exports Vols/Values Oct 2014, Lumber Prices Dec 2014

    Data out of Statistics Canada December 29 shows lumber exported from Canada to the US, by value, for Jan – Oct 2014 is up 23.5 per cent compared to the same time period last year. http://tinyurl.com/msa2o88 Volumes increased 10.5 per cent. Canada Global Softwood Lumber Exports Jan-Oct 2014 ($7.4 billion) approach total 2013 ($7.8 billion).…