24-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 24-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 120.797 USD/tonne on 12 October 2026, compared to 118.640 on 9 October. This constitutes an increase of 1.82 percent.
Sample. There are 3,856 data points in the daily series presented in the chart above. The series covers the time period extending from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Have a look at some descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: the forward price recorded a bottom of 37.750 USD/tonne on 20 January 2016; it recorded a maximum of 301.113 on 5 September 2022; it had an average value of 93.577.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | 118.581 |
| 2026-10-09 | 118.640 |
| 2026-10-12 | 120.797 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 24-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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