Paper Industry Weekly: Demand and freight rates drive up raw material prices

Shandong Quanlin's 8.5 billion yuan project was settled in Jilin Dehui. The construction includes an annual output of 600,000 tons of natural color paste, 700,000 tons of mechanism paper, 4 billion food medical packaging boxes, 900,000 tons of organic fertilizer and 200,000 tons of plant feed. And supporting the construction of 30KW thermal power station, environmental treatment system, straw collection, packaging, transportation and storage system.

Jincheng Logistics Network January 6, 2010 news: Westbound Pan Pacific Tariff Agreement (WTSA) announced that on February 15th, the freight rate for the US to Asia route will be raised by $100 per 40 cabinets; Los Angeles and Long Beach will go to Asia. Freight rates increase by $80 per 20 cabinets; full-water dry goods transported from US West Coast ports, via East Coast, Gulf of Mexico and inland multimodal transport stations add $120 per 20 cabinets and $150 per 40 cabinets.

According to the American Forest and Paper Association, the volume of printed writing paper in the United States increased slightly by 2% in November 2008 compared with January 2008. This is the second consecutive year of growth, and the recent increase was in February 2008.