Facts and Figures

	Royalties for Native Hardwood Forestry Corporation losses on native forest logging Exports of woodchips from Eden ANWE/ SEFE Corporate After tax profits for South East Fibre Exports/ ANWE Log truck numbers Political donations Threatened species Area logged Links Chronology of south east woodchipping
What is woodchipping? Forests in the furnace Activists Corner What's New Home FACTS AND FIGURES	Native Forest Hardwood Royalties  $/m3   Southern  (South Coast) Southern (Tumut)   Eden  High quality sawlogs 24.12 - 154.60 52.67 – 106.60 15.47 - 125.49 Low quality sawlogs 14.07 16.11 15.00 Pulp logs 3.72 * - 18.19 Firewood 13.43 6.18 21.50  Source: NSW Parliament Question on Notice 0073
	NSW Forestry Corporation Hardwood Division Native forest logging is undertaken by the Hardwood Division. For many years it has been marginal or lost money for NSW taxpayers. Operating Profit pre 2010 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 click ($13m) ($16m) ($15m) ($12) ($0.6m) ($0.7m) $2.66m* $2.5m*   2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24             $1.1m** $0.4M** ($20M) ($9M) ($15M) ($29M)             *Operating profit less notional tax @ 30% ** "normalised" earnings
	Exports of woodchips in green Tonnes In its heyday following the Eden Regional Forest Agreement, SEFE typically exported over 1 million green tonnes of woodchips from Eden. Most went to the (then) parent company in Japan. Since 2018, China has been the biggest importer of Eden woodchips. Annual export figures since 1997 From Victoria, a long term contract with the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to supply 200,000 tonnes a year ended in 2014. Pulp log supply from Victoria later resumed, but ceased again following the decision by the Victorian Government to end native forest logging from 2024. Since ANWE acquired SEFE in December 2015, Annual Financial Statements to ASIC have been much more limited. Total exports from Eden since the establishment of the chipmill are about 50 million green tonnes. [back to top]
ANWE/ SEFE Company Profile After tax profits for South East Fibre Exports Pty Ltd For annual profit and loss figures click On a typical day - during the 2000s, 160 trucks enter the chipmilll with loads of either woodchips or logs. Now, it is a lot fewer. For truck count details click This is based on a regular truck monitoring surveys undertaken by Chipstop.  This equates to an en estimated 14.5 million truck kilometres every year.
Political donations: The logging industry seldom makes donations to any political party; indeed, taxpayers are digging deep to subsidise it. However, the Australian Forest Products Association (FPA) has made small donations from time to time. Significantly, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Engineering Union (CFMEU), the loggers' union is among the biggest donors to the Labor Party.
Area logged. In 2008, a total of more than 14,500 hectares was logged in the south coast and Eden regions combined (source: ForestsNSW). Every logtruck represents half a hectare of forest logged (on the basis of figures in the Eden EIS (Vol C, Appendix 4-9), 59 826 ha =2726 984 tonnes.  On the same basis, each fully laden woodchip carrier, such as the Daishowa Maru, for example represents 1176.5 hectares of logged forest. Since that time, the area logged to produce the same amount of woodchips has almost doubled, according to an analysis of Forestry Corporation Harvest Plans.	Threatened species. For details visit the National Parks and Wildlife Service website at: https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/animals-and-plants/threatened-species
For other useful information on forests, policy and campaigns, visit these websites: South East Region Conservation Alliance http://www.serca.org.au/ South East Forest Rescue http://sefr.org.au/index.html Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) http://www.geco.org.au Environment East Gippsland http://www.eastgippsland.net.au/ Japan Tropical Forest Action Network (JATAN): http://www.jca.apc.org/jatan/woodchip-j/newinfo.html   back to top]