18-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 18-month forward price of Richards Bay coal stood at 122.504 USD/tonne on 12 October 2026, compared to 120.259 on 9 October. This constitutes a gain of 1.87 percent.
Sample. There are 3,856 records overall in the daily series presented in the chart above. The series covers the period going from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some statistics we calculated on the full sample: the forward price recorded a bottom of 38.301 USD/tonne on 20 January 2016; it recorded a maximum of 300.995 on 5 September 2022; it had a mean value of 94.273.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | 120.520 |
| 2026-10-09 | 120.259 |
| 2026-10-12 | 122.504 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 18-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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