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Forest Product Shipping is one of Drewry Maritime Research's Spotlight Reports, providing you with an in-depth analysis of a niche market. Each chapter of the report breaks the industry down into it component parts, enabling you to focus on the most relevant information for your needs, whilst maintaining an overall view of the industry.

1.  Executive summary
    •   New geographical portrait of supply
    •   The demand giants
    •   Current supply of tonnage and outlook
    •   Forest products industry outlook

2.  Forest industry structure
    •   Introduction: a structural shift
    •   Implications for shipping
    •   North America
    •   USA
    •   Canada
    •   Europe
    •   Finland
    •   Sweden
    •   Norway
    •   Rest of Europe
    •   Russia
    •   Latin America
    •   Brazil
    •   Chile
    •   Argentina
    •   Uruguay
    •   Mexico
    •   Venezuela
    •   Key issues in Latin America
    •   Japan
    •   China
    •   Southeast Asia
    •   Australia
    •   New Zealand
    •   South Africa

3.  Global trades and major demand generators
    •   Introduction
    •   China
    •   Japan
    •   Russia
    •   Europe
    •   North America
    •   India
    •   Southeast Asia: change of focus
    •   Prices and market trends

4.  Supply of tonnage and outlook
    •   Problems with financing and possible subsequent cancellations of orders
    •   Ro-Ro tonnage supply
    •   Open-hatch
    •   Woodchip carriers
    •   Container ships
    •   Possible effects on shipping of the Northern European SECA Zone

5.  Outlook for the global forest products industry
    •   Introduction
    •   General economic outlook
    •   Future major demand generators
    •   Housing starts
    •   Paper and paper products
    •   Woodchips
    •   Eucalyptus
    •   Tropical hardwood
    •   Plantation outlook
    •   Softwood - tackling the overcapacity
    •   Geographical summary of future supply and demand patterns
    •   Latin America - the next giant wood consumer
    •   Environmental pressures and sustainability issues influencing future forest trades
    •   Conclusion

6.  Glossary

Appendices
1.  Forest products imports
    •   Coniferous logs and poles, major importers
    •   China: principal sources of imported coniferous log and poles
    •   Coniferous wood in chips, major importers
    •   Japan: principal sources of imported coniferous wood in chips
    •   Non-coniferous wood in chips, major importer
    •   Japan: principal sources of imported non-coniferous wood in chips
    •   Softwood, thickness exceeding 6mm, major importer
    •   United States: principal sources of imported sawn softwood, thickness exceeding 6mm
    •   China: principal sources of imported sawn softwood, thickness exceeding 6mm
    •   Continuously shaped softwood, major importers
    •   United States: principal sources of imported continuously shaped softwood
    •   Continuously shaped hardwood, major importers
    •   United States: principal sources of imported continuously shaped hardwood
    •   Chemical wood pulp, dissolving grades, major importers
    •   China: principal sources of imported chemical wood pulp, dissolving grades
    •   Chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, coniferous, semi-bleached or bleached
    •   China: principal sources of imported chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, coniferous, 
         semi-bleached or bleached
    •   Chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, non-coniferous, semi-bleached or bleached, 
         major importers
    •   China: principal sources of imported chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate,
        non-coniferous, semi-bleached or bleached
    •   Uncoated fine paper, mechanical and chemical processes, in rolls, major importers
    •   United States: principal sources of imported uncoated fine paper, mechanical and
        chemical processes, in rolls
    •   Wood-free clay-coated printing paper, major importers
    •   Germany: principal sources of imported wood-free clay-coated printing paper
    •   Lightweight coated fine paper, major importers
    •   United States: principal sources of imported lightweight coated fine paper
2.  Percentage of forested areas in selected countries
3.  Brazil's exports of wood to the USA
4.  Brazil's wood exports to Japan
5.  China's wood imports from Brazil
6.  Australia's wood exports to China
7.  Australia's wood export to Japan
8.  Australia's wood exports to New Zealand
9.  Australia's wood exports to USA
10.  China's wood imports from Canada
11.  China's wood imports from USA
12.  China's wood imports from Russia
13.  China's wood imports from Finland
14.  China's wood imports from Sweden
15.  China's wood imports from Chile
16.  China's wood imports from New Zealand
17.  Sweden's wood imports from Russia
18.  Finland's wood imports from Russia
19.  Japan's wood imports from New Zealand
20.  Japan's wood imports from Russia
21.  Japan's wood imports from South Africa
22.  Forest industry production in Finland
23.  Land use and deforestation in Latin America, 2000
24.  British Columbia's top 10 wood product export destinations 2004-2010
25.  Canada's top 10 wood product export destinations 2004-2010
26.  German export of longitudinally sawn spruce fir timber
27.  Germany's exports of planed spruce fir timber
28.  Estimated exports of wood and wood products from India
29.  Housing starts in Canada
30.  Housing starts in Canada's six largest cities

Tables
    •   Geographical portrait of top 100 pulp and paper companies
    •   Locations of top ten global pulp and paper operators
    •   International Paper recent net sales
    •   IP closure impacts
    •   Forest industry in the Finnish economy, 1998 and 2008
    •   Main Baltic forest land area and stock
    •   Outlook of land use in Latin America, 2020
    •   Major Latin American forest companies
    •   Comparison of Brazil's total export and its forest product export, 2004-08
    •   Brazil's wood exports to China, 2007-09
    •   Brazil's exports by value and volume
    •   Residues from forest industry operations in Brazil
    •   Oji Paper sales and income highlights
    •   Nippon Paper sales and income highlights
    •   Overview of Australia's wood and paper product output, consumption and trade
    •   US exports of logs and timber to Japan
    •   US housing starts forecast
    •   India sawnwood prices May 2011
    •   India sawnwood prices May 2011
    •   India plywood prices May 2011
    •   Existing fleet and gross capacity growth
    •   SECU containers vs ISO
    •   Comparison: Transfennica v Transatlantic
    •   Timca capacities
    •   Rederi Aktiebolaget Transatlantic - Transatlantic division fleet
    •   Three generations of fleet development - Finnlines
    •   Dry bulk fleet: conventional vs open-hatch
    •   Expansion of the global dry bulk carrier capacity in dwt terms and of ships in the
        40-60,000 dwt range
    •   Gearbulk newbuilding orderbook
    •   Distances in certain open-hatch trades
    •   Largest open-hatch dry bulk carrier fleets
    •   Woodchip carrier fleets of more than one vessel
    •   Container ship fleet growth forecast, 2010-14
    •   US housing starts forecast
    •   PIX US Newsprint Benchmark Index
    •   PIX Newsprint Europe Benchmark Index
    •   Capacity changes over 2009-2011 in Western Europe
    •   World natural forests areas and forest plantation areas
    •   Area of forest plantations in the Commonwealth 2005
    •   Capacity and production of Canadian and US softwood timber sawmills 2004-2009
    •   Softwood pulp Europe Benchmark Indices

Figures
    •   Top 20 global pulp and paper operators
    •   Total sales of top 100 companies as defined by region
    •   Weyerhaeuser recent operating results and trends
    •   Recent Weyerhaeuser earnings trends
    •   Domtar 5-year sales
    •   Percentage of Finnish forest ownership
    •   Forest industry production in Finland, 2007-08
    •   Finnish pulp and paper output
    •   World's leading pulp, paper and sawn timber exporting countries, 2008
    •   Percentage of forest areas in Scandinavia and Baltic countries, 2010
    •   Percentage of Russia's forests managed by various state bodies, 2010
    •   Latin America forest areas, 2010 and 2000
    •   Mexico's main forest product segments
    •   Trends in forest certification
    •   Countries with largest percentages of total world forest areas
    •   New Zealand's top ten forest products export destinations by value
    •   South Africa plantation area by province
    •   South Africa plantation area by species
    •   Land use in South Africa
    •   Plantation area by ownership
    •   British Columbia's top ten wood product export destinations, 2004-2010
    •   Canada's top ten wood product export destinations, 2004-2010
    •   Japan's housing starts
    •   Japan's plywood imports
    •   European imports of Russian logs
    •   Russian exports of softwood logs and lumber
    •   EU imports of wood products from developing countries
    •   EU25 imports of hardwoods from tropical countries and China
    •   Imports of hardwood from developing countries by main EU importing nations
    •   Percentage increase of German exports of rough sawn timber, Jan-Apr 08/Jan-Apr 09
    •   Percentage increase of German exports of edged timber, Jan-Apr 08/Jan-Apr 09
    •   German exports of longitudinally sawn spruce fir timber
    •   German exports of planed spruce fir timber
    •   British Columbia softwood lumber export to the USA
    •   Quebec softwood lumber export to the USA
    •   Ontario softwood lumber export to the USA
    •   Indian paper and paperboard net imports and production forecast
    •   Estimated exports of wood and wood products from India
    •   Revenue structure of Chenming paper
    •   US unemployment rate - over 16 years old
    •   EU Unemployment rate
    •   Recent trend in Japan's unemployment rate
    •   Recent trends in India's GDP growth
    •   Housing starts in Canada
    •   Housing starts in Canada's six largest cities
    •   Demand for packaging - 15-year growth forecast
    •   Forest characteristics, 2005
    •   Share of plantation wood in the tropical forest industry
    •   Projected forest plantation area
    •   Global trends in forest characteristics
    •   US and Canada softwood mill capacity
    •   Brazil's GDP growth rate
    •   Argentina's GDP growth rate
    •   Chile's GDP growth rate
    •   Mexico's GDP growth rate
    •   Production and consumption of wood products in Latin America by 2020

Forest Industry Structure

The industry is a large and complex one, spanning industrial use of timber to a simple matchstick. Because of this the report starts with a comprehensive analysis of the industry's current structure and how the changes have affected the shipping industry.

Due to changes on a global scale 22 different geographical regions are looked at in detail, including; USA, Canada, Sweden, Russia, Latin America, China, Australia and South Africa.

Global Trades and Major Demand Generators

As with supply, the pattern of demand for forest products is shifting, with the pattern of shipping inevitably following the same course. Taking the main markets of China, Japan, Russia, Europe, North America, India and Southeast Asia, the Forest Products Shipping report details these countries demand levels and relationships with supplying countries.

Also included in this section are prices and market trends for forest products, that includes;

Wood fibre, softwood fibre, hardwood fibre, sawn log, wood pellets, woodchip and pulpwood

Supply of Tonnage and Outlook

After more than a decade of shrinking demand in the pulp and paper sector, coupled with the recent housing market crash, the forest products industry is facing massive changes, but shipping lines battle on due to the versatility of the fleet used for forest products.

Dedicated sections are given to the variety of fleet options that includes open-hatch & dry bulk, container, Ro-Ro, and woodchip. With fleet analysis profiles and forecasted growth rates.

Outlook for the Global Forest Products Industry

The future of the forest products sector is influenced by a vast number of issues and it's within this section of the Forest Products Shipping report that you will be able to fully appreciate the direction it is heading towards.

From the general economic outlook and housing issues, to environmental pressures and advent of new media impacting on paper product demand, this report brings together the important issues that you need to understand to gain a clear perspective of the future for forest products and the demand for shipping capacity.