A union has attacked "antipathy" against forestry workers and their representatives, as a safety review pins the blame for the industry's high fatality rate on everyone involved.

Union slams “antipathy” against forestry workers and their representatives, as safety review pins blame for sector’s high fatality rate on everyone involved.

Log export trade helped offset a 10 per cent decline in Port of Tauranga's container business, allowing the company to report a record underlying profit of $78.3 million for the June year.

A company offering small forest owners less risky options for realising their investment was launched in Wellington today.

Machines which fell trees under remote control by operators standing at safe distances are being hailed as important new tools and a world first for reducing deaths and injuries in forests.

Kiwi exporters should look to market more premium products to an increasingly wealthy Chinese consumer, says Shanghai-based economist Mary Boyd.

Log export prices have dropped sharply since March because demand in New Zealand's biggest market - China - has fallen while supply has substantially increased.

A union body leading prosecutions over the deaths of forestry workers has applauded a coroner for tackling the problem, which it described as unsustainable and intolerable.

The families of 11 forestry workers killed on the job last year will march on Parliament today to call for regulation in the industry to prevent more deaths.

Fifty-one workers were killed while they were doing their jobs last year, the Council of Trade Unions says.

The receiver for Southern Cross Forest Products plans to shut one of the failed wood processor's South Island sawmills, with 79 jobs to go.

Businesses are paying their bills in record time, with the forestry and agriculture sectors winning the prompt payment stakes.

A slice of New Zealand's largest forestry operation has been sold by the Superannuation Fund to six central North Island iwi.

The dairy industry and Fonterra have a long, long way to go before they reach their full potential, writes Brian Gaynor. The dairy sector should be more focused on added-value products.

A waterfront dispute has broken out between two of New Zealand's biggest ports, arguing about who is the best.

Labour says it is "pathetic" that Minister of Labour Simon Bridges will not commit to attending an industry led-review of safety in the forestry industry.

A young forestry worker is in intensive care at Gisborne Hospital after he was hit by a log in a forestry block today.

A forestry worker killed by a falling log in Marlborough yesterday has been named as William Bryant.

There are "deeply ingrained systemic issues'' in the forestry industry, New Zealand's work safety regulator says, following the death of another forestry worker this morning.

The export of logs to China is driving an increase in the value of NZ's forestry products - now worth more than $4.5 billion a year.

A man aged in his 20s was killed by a falling tree while working on a forestry block in rural Horowhenua this morning.

Maryanne Butler-Finlay lost her husband Charles Finlay in a forestry accident in July. His was the seventh forestry-related death of the year and his family hoped he would be the last.

Labour Minister Simon Bridges says prosecutions are "very likely" for forestry owners who have breached safety standards.

The introduction of a corporate manslaughter law to deal with work-related deaths in New Zealand is "unlikely", says Prime Minister John Key.