15-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 15-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 124.326 USD/tonne on 12 October 2026, compared to 121.850 on 9 October. This marks an increase of 2.03 percent.
Sample. In this daily time series, there are a total of 3,856 records. The span of time covered by the series extends from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Take a look at some simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: the forward price had a mean value of 94.750 USD/tonne; it recorded a bottom of 38.503 on 15 January 2016; it hit a peak of 301.312 on 5 September 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | 122.168 |
| 2026-10-09 | 121.850 |
| 2026-10-12 | 124.326 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 15-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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