16-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 16-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 126.814 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, versus 126.851 on 26 October. This represents a decrease of 0.03 percent.
Sample. In this daily series, there are 3,867 records overall. The series covers the time period stretching from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here are some simple statistics we computed on the full sample: the forward price recorded a minimum of 38.500 USD/tonne on 15 January 2016; it reached its maximum of 301.473 USD/tonne on 5 September 2022; it had an average value of 94.577 USD/tonne.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 129.229 |
| 2026-10-26 | 126.851 |
| 2026-10-27 | 126.814 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 16-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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