Metsäteho Result Series: Timber harvesting and long-distance transport of roundwood in 2025 (Mt 0,8 pdf)
Summary
Unit cost of timber harvesting decreased from 2024
- The average cost of timber harvesting was 13.46 €/m3 (over bark)
- change -1.0%, real cost change -0.4%
- Costs by felling method:
- First thinning 22.61 €/m3 (change +0.8%)
- Other thinning 17.81 €/m3 (change -0.4%)
- Regeneration felling 10.13 €/m3 (change -0.9%)
- The share of mechanised timber harvesting was 100.0%
- The share of timber from regeneration felling was 61.1%
(change +1.1 percentage points) - The share of delivery sales in domestic wood supply was 8.9%
Unit cost in long-distance transport of roundwood increased from 2024
- The average cost of long-distance transport was 11.42 €/m3
- change +1.0%, real cost change +1.3%
- The average cost by timber truck to mill was 9.91 €/m3
- change -2.4%, real cost change -2.1%
- The average transport distance shortened and was 179 km
- changes: road transport (-2.6%), railway (-0.2%) and waterborne transport (-2.5%)
- The share of road transport decreased by −0.5 percentage points and share of rail transport and waterborne transport increased by +0.4 and +0.1 percentage points
- The average overhead of domestic wood procurement was 3.96 €/m3
- change +4.0%
Publication in Finnish
Metsätehon tuloskalvosarja 6/2026: Puunkorjuu ja kaukokuljetus vuonna 2025
More information
Markus Strandström
Metsäteho Oy
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