18-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 18-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 125.531 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, versus 125.565 on 26 October 2026. This marks a decrease of 0.03 percent.
Sample. There are 3,867 data points in the daily time series shown in the graph above. The time range covered by the series stretches from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: the forward price recorded a bottom of 38.301 USD/tonne on 20 January 2016; it peaked at 300.995 USD/tonne on 5 September 2022; it had a mean of 94.361 USD/tonne.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 128.037 |
| 2026-10-26 | 125.565 |
| 2026-10-27 | 125.531 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 18-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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