Wood Trade in Greece: The Impact Of Economic Crisis And The Use Of New Technologies

In wood trade, the supplier is the forest and the product is round wood. The quality, the quantity and value of wood depend heavily on the practices that are applied in the early stages of the supply chain. Current methods of the the productive capacity of forests, the annual consumption of wood and wood products, both from natural and technical forests and also from imports are presented. The aim of the paper is to aggregate data on timber trade in Greece and also to study how the economic crisis has affected the forest, its products and how it has affected trade (imports and exports). We will present the characteristics and elements for timber products gathered and present the results in tables and diagrams. Finally, we will present the use and utilization of new information technologies, such as databases, digital timber traceability systems, sustainable timber and wood products, in collaboration with the traditional methods used in timber trade.