12-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 12-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 126.499 USD/tonne on 12 October 2026, versus 123.385 on 9 October. This constitutes a gain of 2.52 percent.
Sample. In the daily series presented in the graph, there are 3,856 observations. The series covers the time period stretching from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: the forward price was equal on average to 95.639 USD/tonne; it reached a minimum of 38.908 on 15 January 2016; it peaked at 348.540 on 2 March 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | 123.500 |
| 2026-10-09 | 123.385 |
| 2026-10-12 | 126.499 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 12-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; calculations on market data |
| 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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