21-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 21-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 124.061 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, versus 124.069 on the previous day. This represents a reduction of 0.01 percent.
Sample. In the daily time series displayed in the graph, there are 3,867 records in total. The span of time covered by the series is from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics computed on the whole sample: the forward price averaged 94.063 USD/tonne; it reached its maximum of 299.836 USD/tonne on 5 September 2022; it reached its minimum of 37.851 USD/tonne on 20 January 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 126.486 |
| 2026-10-26 | 124.069 |
| 2026-10-27 | 124.061 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 21-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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