30-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 30-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 124.791 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, compared to 124.802 on 26 October. This marks a decrease of 0.01 percent.
Sample. There are 3,867 records in the daily time series shown in the graph above. The series covers the span of time stretching from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: the forward price was equal on average to 93.388 USD/tonne; it peaked at 293.365 USD/tonne on 5 September 2022; it hit a trough of 37.750 USD/tonne on 15 January 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 127.078 |
| 2026-10-26 | 124.802 |
| 2026-10-27 | 124.791 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 30-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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