Field Trip
All visits subject to final written confirmation of host approvals. In all five previous DANA industrial tours, we have been able to confirm all visits to port/mill types initially advertised.
Field Trip No.1
Field Trip No.2
| Day | Date | Event |
| Wednesday | 18 March | Tour starts lobby of Shanghai Hotel 7.00am |
| Bus to Yangtze River Basin to visit; plywood/sawmill and new China National Forest Group Port complex at Xinminzhou, major wood panel mills/flooring plants, mills processing imported plantation Eucalyptus logs | ||
| Thursday | 19 March | Visit the imported woodchip yard of as major pulp mill and possibly other parts of the mill |
| Visit Taichan Port - to see imported logs from several countries and especially to see huge new number of Russian supply sources of softwood lumber into China | ||
| If time permits, visit a Port-side Sawmill | ||
| 3:45pm | Drive back to Shanghai and arrive at Hongqiao Airport | |
| 4.00pm | 2 day field trip finishes Hongqiao Airport |
Field Trip No.2
| Day | Date | Event |
| Thursday | 19 March | |
| 4:15pm | 2 day North China field trip starts at Hongqiao Airport | |
| Flight MU5517; 5:45pm - 10:35pm (Hongqiao-Harbin) | ||
| Stay Harbin Hotel - close to railway station | ||
| Friday | 20 March | Train D8501; 5:28am - 7:58am (Harbin-Suifenhe) |
| Visit train transfer yard for logs and lumber, China National Forest Group wood processing complex, and other wood processing complexes in Suifenhe on Russia/China border | ||
| these to include smaller independent operators, and other big complexes | ||
| Stay Suifenhe Hotel | ||
| Saturday | 21 March | Saturday morning; additional wood processing/add value wood processing visits at Suifenhe |
| Saturday afternoon; train and flight to Harbin/Shanghai | ||
| Train D8520; 3.12pm - 6.16pm | ||
| Flight ZH 5052; 9.05pm - 12.35am | ||
| Sunday | 22 March | Tour terminates at 12.35am at Pudong Airport |