20-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 20-month forward price of Richards Bay coal stood at 121.360 USD/tonne on 12 October 2026, compared to 119.127 on 9 October. This constitutes a gain of 1.87 percent.
Sample. In this daily time series, there are 3,856 observations. The series covers the time range extending from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Take a look at some statistics we computed on the whole sample: the forward price reached a trough of 38.253 USD/tonne on 16 February 2016; it hit a maximum of 299.811 on 5 September 2022; it was equal on average to 94.181.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | 119.143 |
| 2026-10-09 | 119.127 |
| 2026-10-12 | 121.360 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 20-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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