This E-Mail Group is the main communications media for Research of LOGISTICS in the Forest Sector(http://members.surfeu.fi/otaniemi/network.htm)

The list is owned by so-called WOOD LOGISTICS club, a non-profit, worldwide society of researchers. The Network and this List has been founded in early 1999 by Chief Technologist Kim Sjöström, Finland (http://members.surfeu.fi/sjostrom/), who has acted as the first Coordinator of the Club. Officers of this network are as follows:
Kim Sjöström, President and Chief Coordinator (Finland); and Deputies: Dr Robert J McCormack (Australia), Dr Stefanos I Fotiou (Greece), Dr Bo Dahlin (Sweden) and Dr Richard P Vlosky (Louisiana, USA).

Until 31.12.2000, altogether around 300 researchers from all over the world, have joined our Club.

The network of Logistics in Forest Sector is intended to support and to initiate
- creative, original thinking
- dissemination of research results & information
- exchange of knowledge and ideas
- networking
- researcher cooperation
- joint projects
- world-wide, chain-long, holistic perspectives into our field

Also, we wish and welcome that senior and/or expertised researchers produce review papers relevant to logistics in the forest sector, describing the background, basic theory and state-of-art in some topic or area of research interest, together with some pointers towards what research problems still remain in that topic or area

Thematic Scope of the Network has been defined (http://honeybee.helsinki.fi/logistics/scope.htm).
All research which contributes to understanding or management of logistics issues relevant to Timber, or to Wood Fiber: paper industries and wood product industries. We welcome all acceptable scientific methods and research approaches....