15-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 15-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 127.579 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, versus 127.617 on 26 October 2026. This constitutes a decrease of 0.03 percent.
Sample. In this daily time series, there are a total of 3,867 records. The series covers the time span stretching from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some simple statistics we calculated on the full sample: the forward price reached a maximum of 301.312 USD/tonne on 5 September 2022; it reached a minimum of 38.503 USD/tonne on 15 January 2016; it averaged 94.844 USD/tonne.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 129.853 |
| 2026-10-26 | 127.617 |
| 2026-10-27 | 127.579 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 15-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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