5-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 5-month forward price of Richards Bay coal stood at 132.288 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, versus 132.339 on the previous day. This marks a decrease of 0.04 percent.
Sample. There are 3,867 data points overall in the daily series presented in the figure above. The series covers the period going from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: the forward price was equal on average to 98.186 USD/tonne; it reached a minimum of 42.379 USD/tonne on 11 February 2016; it recorded its highest level of 381.609 USD/tonne on 2 March 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 133.570 |
| 2026-10-26 | 132.339 |
| 2026-10-27 | 132.288 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 5-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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