1-month forward price of Richards Bay coal (USD/tonne) - South Africa - FSR - Daily
This series is part of the dataset: Forward Richards Bay coal prices
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In international coal derivatives markets, the 1-month forward price of Richards Bay coal stood at 133.800 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, the same as on 26 October.
Sample. There are 3,867 data points in the daily time series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the time span going from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: the forward price registered a minimum of 46.650 USD/tonne on 22 December 2015; it reached its maximum of 455.515 USD/tonne on 8 March 2022; it averaged 100.703 USD/tonne.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 134.680 |
| 2026-10-26 | 133.800 |
| 2026-10-27 | 133.800 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 1-month forward price of Richards Bay coal |
| Country | South Africa |
| Economic concept | Price |
| Data type | Forward price |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Daily |
| Unit | USD/tonne |
| Source | FetchSeries Research (FSR); estimates from FSR energy-market model |
| Source type | Data research lab |
| Data licence | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) + FetchSeries disclaimers |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LD1 |
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