In particular, arrivals of imported plywood increased by about 30,000 cubic metres from March and domestic softwood plywood production exceeded 220,000 cubic metres.
Imported plywood in April was 347,900 cubic metres, 23.3% more than April last year and 9.4% more than March, the highest since July 2011.
Volume by source is 164,900 cubic metres from Malaysia, 39.2% more and 7.8% more, 75,500 cubic metres from China, 24.5% more and 31.6% more.
Average monthly arrivals in last twelve months were 303,000 cubic metres, about a 5,000 cubic metres increase from the average until March.
Reason of the increase of Malaysian plywood is that the largest supplier shipped cargoes waiting shipment all at once in March with larger fleet with a newly built ship.
May arrivals are estimated over 300,000 cubic metres but with declining future purchase, the arrivals after June are expected to decrease.
Domestic plywood production in April was 235,100 cubic metres, 11% more than the same month a year ago and 1.6% more than March, out of which softwood plywood was 220,100 cubic metres, 14.0% more and 1.7% more.
This is the largest production in about six years. The shipment of softwood plywood in April was 221,100 cubic metres, 14.4% more and 1% more. This is seventh straight months with over 200,000 cubic metres.
The inventories were 124,000 cubic metres, about 1,000 cubic metres less than a month ago.