Through IndustryEdge’s online platform, Wood Market Edge, woodchip exporters, pulp producers, traders, port authorities and others are tracking the increasingly complex global woodchip trade. Source: Timberbiz
Using a mix of trade data, automated vessel tracking, port ‘watching’ and ongoing field research, Wood Market Edge online allows subscribers to understand what is happening in the global trade today and to predict what will occur in coming months.
The group of datasets available on the platform deliver intelligence that is months ahead of the formal release of trade data, because in almost real-time, it links vessel movements at the ‘port-to-port’ level.
Subscribers can toggle easily from the visualisation to interrogate the specific data. Both the charts/graphics and the data can be downloaded.
Recently, when Australian hardwood chip exporters were successful in having formal trade data for shipments to Japan ‘redacted’ by the formal government trade reporting system, Wood Market Edge subscribers did not miss a beat. Wood Market Edge online subscribers logged in, checked vessel movements and analysed the port-to-port movements to stay up to date.
All visualisations are dynamic, so when using them online subscribers move their mouse to highlight their areas of interest, bringing up information boxes containing the underlying data.
