10-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 10-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 130.626 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, compared to 130.652 on 26 October 2026. This constitutes a decrease of 0.02 percent.
Sample. There are 3,867 observations in the daily series presented in the plot above. The time span covered by the series extends from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Check out some statistics computed on the whole sample: the forward price registered a minimum of 39.650 USD/tonne on 15 January 2016; it reached its maximum of 356.367 USD/tonne on 2 March 2022; it was equal on average to 96.401 USD/tonne.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 131.816 |
| 2026-10-26 | 130.652 |
| 2026-10-27 | 130.626 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 10-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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