2-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 2-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 130.879 USD/tonne on 12 October 2026, compared to 128.906 on 9 October 2026. This constitutes a gain of 1.53 percent.
Sample. There are 3,856 observations in the daily time series displayed in the chart above. The series covers the time range stretching from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here are some summary statistics we computed on the full sample: the forward price reached its maximum of 434.358 USD/tonne on 7 March 2022; it hit a minimum of 45.737 on 22 December 2015; it had a mean value of 99.916.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | 129.000 |
| 2026-10-09 | 128.906 |
| 2026-10-12 | 130.879 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 2-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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