THE State Government has stepped in to ensure that concerned sawmillers can now access blackwood, myrtle and sassafras logs destined for export at very low return to Forestry Tasmania.
Resources Minister Bryan Green says local sawmillers will be allowed to inspect and buy logs in the Forestry Tasmania yard on the Burnie wharf before they are shipped out.
The 15,000 tonnes on site was to leave for China for pulp and veneer next week.
The stockpile of splitting sun-ruined logs contains blackwood, myrtle and sassafras, which contractors with overseas orders are desperate to access.
Mr Green said that in the past sawmillers had decided the actual export logs did not meet their required specifications but the Government and Forestry Tasmania were keen to maximise the economic return on all logs harvested.
Forestry Tasmania would not say how much the Chinese customer had paid for the shipment.
Mr Green said Forestry Tasmania had reiterated its open offer that any sawmiller was welcome to inspect and buy any potential export logs.
"I have also been assured that Forestry Tasmania will arrange access to the yard for inspection of the logs," he said.
Contractors wanting to inspect the logs on the Burnie wharf and buy them should contact Forestry Tasmania's North-West District manager immediately.
Mr Green said that from now on Forestry Tasmania would set aside a regularly scheduled day when any sawmiller could inspect potential export logs.
The company will also write to all sawmillers with a registered sawmill, or other people who have previously bought blackwood logs, reminding them of the standing offer to inspect and buy the export logs.
Greens forestry spokesman Kim Booth yesterday wrote to Forestry Tasmania chairman Bob Annells, inviting him to go to Burnie to see the logs firsthand and talk to frustrated timber contractors.
Mr Booth also wants to hold a sawing trial on some of the logs, which are now too split to salvage, to demonstrate that they are not forest residue fit only for chipping.
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