OREANDA-NEWS. During the first three quarters of 2007, the Logging and Timber Rafting Department (the Bratsk region of the Irkutsk oblast) logged 1 million 283.4 thousand cu metres of wood, 1.7% up year-over-year, Ilimgroup's press service reported.

Since year-start, the volume of raw wood shipment by Ilim Group’s own companies in Bratsk region amounted to 1 mln 355 thousand cu metres, 0.8% up as compared to the first nine months of 2006. The share of wood supply by Ilim Group’s own logging companies was 42.4%.General wood product shipment to the branch’s production site in Bratsk totaled 3 mln 197.6 thousand cu metres, 11.8% up from January – September 2006.