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Triton Logging, a BC company, is just getting underway with a project that will harvest tropical hardwoods from a lake bottom in Ghana. When it gets up to full steam, they will be harvesting 400,000 cubic metres per year. A mill by the lakeshore will process the timber and provide 100 jobs to locals.
Nearly eight years in the making, the massive salvage operation will take 25 years and harvest 350,000 hectares of underwater forest. It makes Triton, which was awarded the project late last year by Ghana’s parliament, well positioned to meet high global demand for tropical hardwoods – especially those logged sustainably.
Production couldn’t be starting at a better time. Experts foresee reduced supply and rapid growth in demand for tropical hardwoods from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/business-categories/sustainability/african-treasure-bc-firm-harvests-submerged-forest/article2101132/
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