Germany’s export value of logs and lumber has increased 63% the past five years, reaching 2.5 billion dollars in 2020
The softwood timber harvest in Germany is likely to reach almost 50 million m[3] in 2020, about ten million m[3] more than a typical year before the spruce bark beetle-infestation in 2018. In addition, Germany has harvested 6-7 million m[3] of hardwood species annually for the past five years. The total timber harvest in 2020 will be the highest since 2007, when the cyclone Kyrill swept in over Central Europe and damaged approximately 45 million m[3] of timber. Practically all of the additional ten million m[3 ]of annually harvested softwood roundwood the past three years was