27-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 27-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 124.669 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, versus 124.665 on 26 October 2026.
Sample. There are 3,867 data points overall in the daily time series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time period stretching from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: the forward price reached its minimum of 37.750 USD/tonne on 15 January 2016; it recorded its highest level of 300.666 USD/tonne on 5 September 2022; it had an average value of 93.475 USD/tonne.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 126.906 |
| 2026-10-26 | 124.665 |
| 2026-10-27 | 124.669 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 27-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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