4-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 4-month forward price of Richards Bay coal stood at 132.764 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, compared to 132.780 on 26 October 2026. This marks a reduction of 0.01 percent.
Sample. There are 3,867 data points in the daily time series presented in the plot above. The series covers the span of time stretching from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: the forward price was equal on average to 98.822 USD/tonne; it recorded a bottom of 43.422 USD/tonne on 9 February 2016; it reached a maximum of 407.421 USD/tonne on 7 March 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 133.916 |
| 2026-10-26 | 132.780 |
| 2026-10-27 | 132.764 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 4-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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