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There will be no more raw log exports from the port of Hobart. (ABC News: Andrew Fisher)
There will be no more raw logs exported from the port of Hobart.
Veneer shipments from the Huon Valley will replace the raw timber.
Forestry Tasmania says about 165,000 tonnes of logs have been taken off Hobart's streets.
Managing Director Bob Gordon says it means a 20 to 30 per cent reduction in the number of trucks.
"Well there'll be about 6,000 less log trucks per year, and it will be replaced by about six trucks a day carrying veneer which mostly people don't notice," he said.
"For some reason log trucks attract more attention that other trucks."
Mr Gordon says log trucks will still be seen on some roads, but not in the city.
"There will still be saw logs coming to the sawmills located at Glenorchy, Austins Ferry, Boyer and a couple of small country mills around the place and there will still be logs being transported to Triabunna."
Forestry spokesman for the Tasmanian Greens, Tim Morris, says less traffic is a positive.
"Probably sounds like it's going to be a positive for the streets of Hobart," he said.
"And that's welcome as far as that's concerned.
"But as far as our native forests are concerned we're just seeing a little bit of shuffle of the deck chairs."
There will be no more raw logs exported from the port of Hobart.
Veneer shipments from the Huon Valley will replace the raw timber.
Forestry Tasmania says about 165,000 tonnes of logs have been taken off Hobart's streets.
Managing Director Bob Gordon says it means a 20 to 30 per cent reduction in the number of trucks.
"Well there'll be about 6,000 less log trucks per year, and it will be replaced by about six trucks a day carrying veneer which mostly people don't notice," he said.
"For some reason log trucks attract more attention that other trucks."
Mr Gordon says log trucks will still be seen on some roads, but not in the city.
"There will still be saw logs coming to the sawmills located at Glenorchy, Austins Ferry, Boyer and a couple of small country mills around the place and there will still be logs being transported to Triabunna."
Forestry spokesman for the Tasmanian Greens, Tim Morris, says less traffic is a positive.
"Probably sounds like it's going to be a positive for the streets of Hobart," he said.
"And that's welcome as far as that's concerned.
"But as far as our native forests are concerned we're just seeing a little bit of shuffle of the deck chairs."
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