Skogsstatistisk årsbok 2003.pdf - Skogsstyrelsen

SUMMARY8 Timber transportationThe total lengths of road and railway networks are 420,000 and 11,000 kilometresrespectively.Transportation of forest products accounts for 26 percent of the total land based transportation.In 2001 lorries hauled 42 million tons of roundwood on the domestic market. The correspondingfigure for trains was 5.2 million tons.Average distances travelled were: 86 kilometres for lorries and 233 kilometres for trains.Transportation of roundwood was calculated at 3,624 million tonne-kilometres for lorriesand 1,159 million tonne-kilometres for trains.In total 1,679 kilometres of new forest roads were constructed in 2002.This chapter covers data for transportation logistics.Road and rail data is available as is data aboutthe forest road network. The chapter also containsa section for domestic and international shippingstatistics.The Swedish Institute for Transport and CommunicationsAnalysis (SIKA) is responsible forproducing statistics on transportation issues. Thesample surveys cover information about thetransportation of forest products on road andrailway networks.High quality design- and maintenance of forestroads is essential, as lorries are the most commonlyused vehicles for timber transport. Road haulagestatistics for timber and forest industry productsare produced (tables 8.1 to 8.4) and equivalentstatistics for railway transport are also available(tables 8.6 and 8.7), as are shipping data (tables8.8 and 8.9)The most common rail transportation productsare roundwood, paper and paperboard. Informationon road and rail transportations of roundwood,as well as the extinct methods of sea andriver floating is available (figure 8.2).9 Inventories and consumption of forest productsIndustrial stock counts at the end of 2002 accounted for:2.8 million m 3 f ub of coniferous sawlogs,3.2 million m 3 f ub of pulplogs,0.8 million m 3 f ub of chips.In 2001 industrial consumption of roundwood was calculated at 66.2 million m 3 f ub. Thebreak down of tree species was: 40 percent pine, 49 percent spruce, nine percent birch andtwo percent other broadleaf.The same year consumption of forest raw materials was 79 million m 3 f ub out of which:– Wood board production consumed 1.5 million m 3 f ub.– Pulp and paper production consumed 42.8 million m 3 f ub.– Sawmill production required 34.2 million m 3 f ub (and produced 12.2 million m 3 f ub chips,and sawdust for consumption in the pulp- and wood board industry).305