3-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 3-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 133.125 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, compared to 133.142 on 26 October. This constitutes a reduction of 0.01 percent.
Sample. In the daily series displayed in the plot, there are 3,867 records in total. The series covers the span of time extending from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few simple statistics computed on the full sample: the forward price reached its minimum of 44.856 USD/tonne on 22 December 2015; it reached its maximum of 422.871 USD/tonne on 7 March 2022; it had an average value of 99.353 USD/tonne.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 134.322 |
| 2026-10-26 | 133.142 |
| 2026-10-27 | 133.125 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 3-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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