National Freight Demands Study - Ministry of Transport

National Freight Demands Study
About a third of the total belongs to the three main owners, a third to small owners and
farms and the rest to medium-sized owners such as Pan Pac and Crown Forestry. While
the breakdown of ownership of forests is not directly related to the breakdown of volume
produced it is likely to be similar.
3.5.4 End uses of logs
There are four primary destinations for logs, which are shown below along with the
percentage split between them:
a) export logs and chips - 35 percent
b) peeler logs to timber product plants - eight percent
c) saw and small logs to sawmill - 41 percent
d) pulp logs for chip, pulp, paper etc - 16 percent.
Note that some of (b) to (d) will be exported after value has been added – this accounts
for 40 to 50 percent of total exported weight of wood products (see below) with the
remainder being exported logs (a). Additionally there is movement within the industry,
eg residue from product plants is used in the manufacture of paper and packaging.
The processes involved are illustrated in Figure 3.5.
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