Sibolga has long served as a nexus for trade and services and as an important export station for rubber, coffee, timber, resin, camphor, copra, and other commodities.
Ship-loads of timber, amber, wax, resin, wool, linen, silk, fur and rye shuttled across the chilly and treacherous Baltic.
The neem tree, also called the margosa tree (Azadirachta indica), is grown throughout the Old World tropics, notably in India and Southeast Asia, and is a source of timber and medicinal oils and resins.
Fir (Abies), Keteleeria, Cathaya, Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga), hemlock (Tsuga), spruce (Picea), golden larch (Pseudolarix), larch (or tamarack; Larix), cedar (Cedrus), and pine (Pinus) contain many species that are sources of timber, paper pulp, oils, and resins.
The course then takes riders through a royal herb garden and a collection of chestnut logs, which lead into a large, macaroni-color ringed planet, made of steel, timber and resin-coated polystyrene, and rings made of rubber, inspired by the nearby observatory.
The first trusses were built of timber.
Europe is Malaysia's second-largest timber export market after Japan, with 2.67 billion ringgit ($834 million) in sales of timber and timber products in 2009.
Will the price of timber increase?
They waved sticks and pieces of timber.
Lorries no longer carry the planks of timber: villagers do.
