2-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 2-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 133.653 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, compared to 133.684 on 26 October. This marks a reduction of 0.02 percent.
Sample. There are 3,867 observations in the daily time series shown in the graph above. The time period covered by the series stretches from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: the forward price peaked at 434.358 USD/tonne on 7 March 2022; it hit a trough of 45.737 USD/tonne on 22 December 2015; it averaged 100.012 USD/tonne.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 135.355 |
| 2026-10-26 | 133.684 |
| 2026-10-27 | 133.653 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 2-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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