24-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 24-month forward price of Richards Bay coal stood at 124.151 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, compared to 124.129 on 26 October 2026. This constitutes a gain of 0.02 percent.
Sample. In the daily series shown in the plot, there are 3,867 observations overall. The series covers the time range going from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: the forward price recorded its maximum of 301.113 USD/tonne on 5 September 2022; it reached a minimum of 37.750 USD/tonne on 20 January 2016; it averaged 93.662 USD/tonne.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 126.534 |
| 2026-10-26 | 124.129 |
| 2026-10-27 | 124.151 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 24-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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