2018

Construction of Forest Roads This Year has Taken Place Particularly Smoothly

This year's intensive road construction season is coming to an end. The favourable weather has also had a positive impact on the construction of forest roads in Kurzeme - in this region, construction of a number of facilities was completed well before the set deadline.

Construction works of Apšragu road were due to end on 31 July, but the road was put into service already on 18 July, while construction of Aisteres road was due to end on 15 October, but it was completed on 31 July.

Indris Stulpāns, Chief Executive Officer of LVM Forest Infrastructure, is especially satisfied that this was reached in spite of the fact that this year construction capacities were fully taken up. The new roads will help to ensure stable wood supply to wood processing companies in Latvia also in bad weather conditions, thus increasing their competitiveness in international markets and promoting tax increase in the state budget.

Since its foundation in 1999, Joint Stock Company "Latvia’s State Forests" implementing sustainable forest management has paid one billion euros to state and local government budgets. LVM's economic activities are carried out by maintaining and recovering forests, taking care of nature conservation, recreation opportunities and increasing timber volumes, as well as investing in expanding the forest land and developing forest infrastructure - renovation of drainage systems and forest road construction. The volume of timber in the forests managed by LVM increases by 12 million cubic metres annually.