The Cielo di San Francisco

To help offset export container shortages and increase shipping capacity, four BC majors have partnered to charter a vessel.

Seven round-trips are planned for the next year, which would bring a total of 175 million board feet of lumber to China – about 3 per cent of the wood B.C. will send to China in 2011. To put the export growth in perspective, the 175 million board feet is more than the amount of wood B.C. exported to China in all of 2005.

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