31-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 31-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 124.621 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, compared to 124.627 on 26 October.
Sample. There are 3,867 observations in the daily time series presented in the figure above. The time period covered by the series is from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics computed on the full sample: the forward price peaked at 292.816 USD/tonne on 5 September 2022; it registered a minimum of 37.750 USD/tonne on 15 January 2016; it was equal on average to 93.397 USD/tonne.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 126.890 |
| 2026-10-26 | 124.627 |
| 2026-10-27 | 124.621 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 31-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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