26-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 26-month forward price of Richards Bay coal stood at 121.445 USD/tonne on 12 October 2026, compared to 119.285 on 9 October 2026. This marks a gain of 1.81 percent.
Sample. The daily time series shown in the graph has 3,856 records. The period covered by the series goes from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here are some summary statistics we computed on the entire sample: the forward price had a mean of 93.429 USD/tonne; it recorded a bottom of 37.750 on 15 January 2016; it attained a maximum of 301.772 on 5 September 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | 119.280 |
| 2026-10-09 | 119.285 |
| 2026-10-12 | 121.445 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 26-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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