8-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 8-month forward price of Richards Bay coal stood at 130.830 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, compared to 130.815 on 26 October 2026. This represents a rise of 0.01 percent.
Sample. There are 3,867 records overall in the daily time series shown in the figure above. The time span covered by the series is from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: the forward price recorded a minimum of 41.037 USD/tonne on 15 January 2016; it recorded its maximum of 357.785 USD/tonne on 2 March 2022; it had an average value of 96.973 USD/tonne.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 131.881 |
| 2026-10-26 | 130.815 |
| 2026-10-27 | 130.830 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 8-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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