19-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 19-month forward price of Richards Bay coal stood at 121.864 USD/tonne on 12 October 2026, compared to 119.637 on 9 October 2026. This marks a gain of 1.86 percent.
Sample. In this daily series, there are 3,856 data points in total. The time range covered by the series stretches from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some statistics we calculated on the entire sample: the forward price hit a trough of 38.300 USD/tonne on 20 January 2016; it hit a peak of 300.256 on 5 September 2022; it averaged 94.247.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | 119.760 |
| 2026-10-09 | 119.637 |
| 2026-10-12 | 121.864 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 19-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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