26-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 26-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 124.611 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, versus 124.608 on 26 October 2026.
Sample. There are 3,867 observations overall in the daily series presented in the figure above. The time period covered by the series extends from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: the forward price averaged 93.516 USD/tonne; it reached its lowest level of 37.750 USD/tonne on 15 January 2016; it recorded its maximum of 301.772 USD/tonne on 5 September 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 127.039 |
| 2026-10-26 | 124.608 |
| 2026-10-27 | 124.611 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 26-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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