21-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 21-month forward price of Richards Bay coal stood at 121.105 USD/tonne on 12 October 2026, compared to 118.959 on 9 October. This marks an increase of 1.80 percent.
Sample. There are 3,856 observations overall in the daily series presented in the chart above. The time span covered by the series stretches from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Have a look at some summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: the forward price had a mean value of 93.978 USD/tonne; it reached a maximum of 299.836 on 5 September 2022; it registered a minimum of 37.851 on 20 January 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | 118.916 |
| 2026-10-09 | 118.959 |
| 2026-10-12 | 121.105 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 21-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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