For the first six months of 2015 total volume of lumber exports from Russia increased by 7.4 per cent, to 6.96 million tons year-over-year, as Federal Customs Service of Russia said in the press release received by Lesprom Network August 7.
The volume of Russian exports of roundwood however, for the reporting period, amounted to 9.21 million cubic metres, 8.2 per cent less than in the same period last year, worth US$682.8 million, a 24.5 per cent decrease.