17-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 17-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 126.133 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, compared to 126.168 on 26 October. This constitutes a decrease of 0.03 percent.
Sample. In the daily series displayed in the plot, there are 3,867 records in total. The series covers the time range going from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: the forward price attained a maximum of 301.467 USD/tonne on 5 September 2022; it recorded a bottom of 38.499 USD/tonne on 15 January 2016; it had a mean of 94.407 USD/tonne.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 128.551 |
| 2026-10-26 | 126.168 |
| 2026-10-27 | 126.133 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 17-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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