That is the CIF cost, meaning it includes not only the production costs themselves, but also insurance and freight to China. However, that doesn’t really change the big picture; Finland is far away and isolated, and raw materials are still expensive. It is currently difficult to sell Finnish softwood pulp profitably in China. And this is a major problem, especially for Metsä Group and, on a smaller scale, for UPM as well.
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