There is still delay of exporting European logs and lumber due to difficulty of loading and unloading at ports in the world.<\/p>\n
There are no limitations of production and no delays in transfer from plants to the ports in Europe, but there is a delay at ports which further stagnate container handlings.<\/p>\n
There are currently not enough containers and it seems that this situation will continue for a while because the Chinese New Year and Beijing Winter Olympics were held in February whic further stagnated the transshipment of containers. For example, it takes a week to transport from northern Europe to Central Europe normally, but it takes three to four weeks because of shortage of vessels in Europe.<\/p>\n
Around Singapore through China, electric products and food are given priority on loading and unloading at ports. Also, a delay occurs at Busan port in Korea and that makes a schedule of vessels delay to Japan. The other reason of delay is that the sea around Japan is rough in winter.<\/p>\n
As a result of these confusions, third quarter contracted cargoes continue arriving through February and the fourth quarter contracted cargoes will not arrive to Japan until April. Arrival of the first quarter volume will be in May.\u00a0In short, the prices of earlier quarters will influence the market for prolonged time.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"