36-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 36-month forward price of Richards Bay coal stood at 126.119 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, compared to 126.093 on the previous day. This marks a gain of 0.02 percent.
Sample. The daily series displayed in the graph has 3,867 observations in total. The period covered by the series is from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics calculated on the full sample: the forward price reached a trough of 37.450 USD/tonne on 16 February 2016; it attained a maximum of 293.684 USD/tonne on 5 September 2022; it had an average value of 93.658 USD/tonne.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 128.341 |
| 2026-10-26 | 126.093 |
| 2026-10-27 | 126.119 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 36-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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