Very long distances of export of harvested wood in Siberia and the Far East increasingly pose the problem of optimizing the operation of forest transport, including the coefficient of full-weight load of exported timber. The problem can be solved by the use of the technology of forest terminals (non-permanent forest warehouses), which are created at a small distance from developed forest areas, equipped with mobile woodworking equipment driven by the tractor power take-off shaft. Timber terminals mainly produce semi-finished products, such as timber which is then transported to sawmills and cut into high-quality lumber. The wood waste produced at the forest terminal can be used to produce compressed biofuel, for example, fuel briquettes which can then be used for the energy supply for the forest terminal itself. A mathematical model for analyzing the operation of briquetting crushed wood materials at forest terminals is presented. Keywords: forest terminal, wood waste, briquetting, mathematical model.