9-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 9-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 130.922 USD/tonne on 27 October 2026, versus 130.938 on 26 October. This constitutes a decrease of 0.01 percent.
Sample. There are 3,867 data points in the daily time series displayed in the figure above. The time span covered by the series extends from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: the forward price reached its minimum of 39.666 USD/tonne on 15 January 2016; it peaked at 356.990 USD/tonne on 2 March 2022; it averaged 96.619 USD/tonne.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 132.071 |
| 2026-10-26 | 130.938 |
| 2026-10-27 | 130.922 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 9-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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