{"id":82249,"date":"2022-04-28T09:04:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T09:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/china-covid-lockdown-puts-pressure-softwood-log-imports\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:57:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:57:28","slug":"china-covid-lockdown-puts-pressure-softwood-log-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/china-covid-lockdown-puts-pressure-softwood-log-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"China: Covid lockdown puts pressure on the softwood log imports"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In China COVID has significantly disrupted the log trade with major cities under lockdown and building projects on the go slow. Buyer sentiment is very much starting to wane. The log trade hub centred around Shanghai and the Yangtze River are facing huge population movement restrictions. This is starting to impact more widely with general economic slow-down noted in recent reports.<\/p>\n

Taicang and Lanshan ports are hugely important to the New Zealand and European log trade and both, as well as surrounding cities, are under various levels of either lockdown or heavily restricted movements. Local authorities have now removed timelines and now leaving movement restriction settings open ended. And in China, it's hard to break the rules.<\/p>\n

Despite the apparent problems in China, daily softwood log consumption across the Eastern Seaboard is only running at about 40% below normal at 50,000 cubic meters per day. This is not bad for a country under lockdown, although not all cities are affected as badly as the Shanghai area. Inventory has remained largely unchanged over the last month, meaning that log flow in from all sources has also slowed significantly.<\/p>\n

Given the world wide spread of disruption to trade generally, ocean freight negative sentiment has continued to prevail. Sea freight rates have been dropping.<\/p>\n

Of what we can expect in May, it would seem apparent that any shipping cost reduction will hit CFR negotiations, with log prices in China still US$15 per cubic meter higher than the breakeven point for traders.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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