6-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 6-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 131.520 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, compared to 131.564 on 26 October. This marks a decrease of 0.03 percent.
Sample. In the daily series displayed in the graph, there are 3,867 records. The series covers the period stretching from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics calculated on the full sample: the forward price hit a maximum of 377.789 USD/tonne on 2 March 2022; it reached its minimum of 41.067 USD/tonne on 15 January 2016; it had a mean value of 97.783 USD/tonne.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 132.904 |
| 2026-10-26 | 131.564 |
| 2026-10-27 | 131.520 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 6-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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