New Zealand - Timber Industry
- Logging truck
- 1973
- K E Niven and Co photo
The value of all forestry exports (logs, chips, sawn timber, panels and paper products)
- $NZ 3.62 billion for the year ended 31 March 2006
- $NZ 5 billion in 2018
- Australia accounts for just over 25% of export value, mostly paper products, followed by Japan, South Korea, China and the United States.
- In 2018, wood products were New Zealand's third-biggest export
- Forestry accounted for approximately 3% of national GDP
- Directly employing 20,000 people
Reference: Wikipedia
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Image source: Logging truck. K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives. Ref: 1/2-229744-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22808773
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22808773