12-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 12-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 129.336 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, compared to 129.381 on 26 October. This represents a decrease of 0.03 percent.
Sample. There are 3,867 data points in the daily series shown in the plot above. The time period covered by the series stretches from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics we calculated on the whole sample: the forward price recorded a minimum of 38.908 USD/tonne on 15 January 2016; it reached its maximum of 348.540 USD/tonne on 2 March 2022; it had a mean of 95.735 USD/tonne.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 131.043 |
| 2026-10-26 | 129.381 |
| 2026-10-27 | 129.336 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 12-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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