Report on the Timber Industry in the Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville)

According to the Ministry of Forestry Economy of the Republic of the Congo, over 80% of the construction of the project website of the "National Monitoring, Reporting and Verification System (SYNA-MNV)" of the Republic of the Congo has been completed. Amelie ARQUIERO, the senior technical advisor of the project, said that this is a data display platform for forest monitoring in the Republic of the Congo, with three core functions: querying photos and statistics, disseminating information, and generating reports, covering forest monitoring, REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) activities, etc. 

In February 2025, the GTI-Congo (Brazzaville) Index stood at 45.6%, an increase of 3.7 percentage points from the previous month. It has remained below the critical value of 50% for 28 consecutive months, indicating that the overall production and operation of the advantageous wood enterprises represented by the GTI-Congo (Brazzaville) Index contracted compared to the previous month.

Although the logging volume and production volume in the Congolese (Brazzaville) wood industry slightly decreased this month, the total new order volume was basically the same as that of the previous month. Among the 12 sub-indexes, the sub-indexes of new orders, purchase volume, main raw material inventory, delivery time and market expectations were above the critical value of 50%; while the sub-indexes of logging, production, export orders, existing orders, finished product inventory, purchase price and production and operation personnel were below the critical value of 50%.

Compared with the previous month, the sub-indexes of logging, production, new orders, purchase volume, main raw material inventory, delivery time and market expectations increased by 1.5 to 16.7 percentage points; the sub-index of purchase price remained the same as the previous month; the sub-indexes of export orders, existing orders, finished product inventory and production and operation personnel decreased by 0.7 to 8.3 percentage points. 

The following article is excerpted from the WeChat official account "Wooden Man Timber Market".