33-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 33-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 124.848 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, compared to 124.827 on 26 October 2026. This marks an increase of 0.02 percent.
Sample. There are 3,867 observations overall in the daily series shown in the graph above. The series covers the period extending from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few summary statistics we computed on the full sample: the forward price had a mean value of 93.489 USD/tonne; it reached its minimum of 37.750 USD/tonne on 15 January 2016; it reached its highest level of 292.487 USD/tonne on 5 September 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 127.040 |
| 2026-10-26 | 124.827 |
| 2026-10-27 | 124.848 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 33-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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