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More than 40% of small and medium-sized logging companies in Bulgaria have ceased operations, announced the Bulgarian National Television. The data are from the Association of Logging Companies. According to them, the reasons for this are the coronavirus, which has affected exports, as well as the pricing policy of state-owned companies. Logging companies are another sector that is demanding help from the state due to the coronavirus. They insist that the crisis has affected all their activities.
“The industry is on the verge of collapse. The process is related to work in the forest for end customers, the sale of wood, traffic restrictions have affected anyway,” said Tsvetan Tsonev, president of the Association of Companies lumber companies – Targovishte.
“I am from Haskovo, at the moment in Haskovo I can almost say that I am the only one left in forestry, and we were more than 20 companies,” said Dimitar Topalov, vice president of the Haskovo Timber Companies Association.
The industry insists on changing the pricing policy of state-owned companies.
“The wood is expensive, the logging service is low,” said Dimitar Topalov.
“They are selling more expensively and inconsistently with the specific market situation, the problem has been raised many times, including at the national level: the ministry. The result so far is zero,” continued Tsonev.
“The entire industry has been wrongly demonized in public, they have been misrepresented as hooligans in the forests, and the state is stepping back on every statement that these companies are abusing their work in the forests,” said attorney Marin Popovski.
The affected companies were merged into a national affiliate organization of logging companies. In this way they will be able to participate in working groups and in the reform of bills.
Bulgaria
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