{"id":80451,"date":"2021-03-15T06:12:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T06:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/2020-performance-malaysian-timber-industry\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:54:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:54:54","slug":"2020-performance-malaysian-timber-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/2020-performance-malaysian-timber-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 performance in the Malaysian timber industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-content\">\n<h4>The Malaysian Timber Industry Board (MTIB) has reported last year\u2019s performance of the timber sector. Exports were RM 22.02 bil (RM 22.50 bil in 2019) while total imports were RM 6.81 bil (RM 5.95 bil in 2019).<\/h4>\n<p>Timber exports contributed 2.2% of the country\u2019s overall exports of RM 980.99 bil. The workforce in the forestry sector was estimated at 140,000 of which 55% are estimated to be foreign and 45% local. Annual investment data are available only for 2019 showing domestic investments were RM 479.88 mil and foreign investments RM 851.42 mil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timberindustrynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Mala-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25614 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/timberindustrynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Mala-3-259x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timberindustrynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Mala-3-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/timberindustrynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Mala-3.jpg 267w\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Malaysian exports in the first quarter 2020 were badly impacted by measures to address the Covid-19 pandemic though timber companies were later allowed to operate with a 50% reduction in manpower. The industry faces a shortage of raw materials both domestic and imported. Moreover, from July ocean freight rates for containers increased sharply and the situation was made worse by disruption in container availability.<\/p>\n<p>The top five export destination in 2020 by value were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>USA RM 7.45 bi., +49.9%,<\/li>\n<li>Japan RM 2.73 bil. -21.1%,<\/li>\n<li>China RM 2.25 bil. +23.2%,<\/li>\n<li>Australia RM 0.88 bil. - 14.0%,<\/li>\n<li>Singapore RM 0.83. - 24.3%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The top five countries supplying Malaysia in 2020 by value:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>China, RM 2.76 bil,<\/li>\n<li>Indonesia, RM 1.59 bil,<\/li>\n<li>Thailand, RM 537.6 mil,<\/li>\n<li>Vietnam, RM 396.2 mil,<\/li>\n<li>USA, RM 320.6 mil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Malaysian industry suffered from a shortage of and sustainable supply of raw materials. Marketing was made more challenging with the US Lacey Act, Australia\u2019s Illegal Logging Prohibition Act, the EUTR and the California Anti Deforestation Act. Also, there was stiff competition in pricing and quality from neighbouring Indonesia and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>E-commerce became more common during the Covid 19 pandemic and this was a challenge as not all products can be sold in e-markets. The heavy reliance on foreign labour is of concern though there seems to be no clear path to address this.<\/p>\n<p>There is a severe lack of skilled workers as can be seen by the low productivity. The timber sector worker productivity is about RM 47,000\/worker\/year while the national average is RM 77,000\/worker\/year. Overall there seems to be a lack of innovation in wood products and original designs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shipping a major headache<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The timber industry is experiencing a disruption of container flows. Some shippers are keeping their containers longer than usual and an imbalance between exports and imports in some major trading countries has caused surpluses in some ports and shortages in others.<\/p>\n<p>Westports Holdings managing director, Ruben Emir Gnanalingam, pointed out that, due to slow retail sales because of the lockdowns, many companies have stored packed containers and only when sales pick up can the containers be unstuffed and put back into circulation. He said under normal circumstances the container shipping cycle averages about five to six shipments globally per annum. However, container shipments take much longer now and the cycle has dropped to between four and five because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"section-title\"><\/h2>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Malaysian Timber Industry Board (MTIB) has reported last year\u2019s performance of the timber sector. Exports were RM 22.02 bil (RM 22.50 bil in 2019) while total imports were RM 6.81 bil (RM 5.95 bil in 2019). Timber exports contributed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/2020-performance-malaysian-timber-industry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4716,4715],"tags":[3292,3906],"class_list":["post-80451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-trends","category-market-analysis","tag-malaysia","tag-timber-industry","topic-forestry","topic-sawmilling","area-asia-middle-east"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2020 performance in the Malaysian timber industry - Timber Industry News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/2020-performance-malaysian-timber-industry\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ro_RO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2020 performance in the Malaysian timber industry - Timber Industry News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Malaysian Timber Industry Board (MTIB) has reported last year\u2019s performance of the timber sector. 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