35-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 35-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 125.624 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, versus 125.598 on 26 October 2026. This constitutes an increase of 0.02 percent.
Sample. There are 3,867 data points overall in the daily time series shown in the plot above. The series covers the period going from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: the forward price recorded a minimum of 37.453 USD/tonne on 16 February 2016; it peaked at 293.286 USD/tonne on 5 September 2022; it had a mean of 93.576 USD/tonne.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 127.845 |
| 2026-10-26 | 125.598 |
| 2026-10-27 | 125.624 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 35-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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