20-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 20-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 124.391 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, compared to 124.413 on the previous day. This represents a decrease of 0.02 percent.
Sample. There are 3,867 data points overall in the daily series shown in the chart above. The time period covered by the series goes from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: the forward price hit a maximum of 299.811 USD/tonne on 5 September 2022; it reached a minimum of 38.253 USD/tonne on 16 February 2016; it averaged 94.267 USD/tonne.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 126.860 |
| 2026-10-26 | 124.413 |
| 2026-10-27 | 124.391 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 20-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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