29-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 29-month forward price of Richards Bay coal stood at 121.592 USD/tonne on 12 October 2026, compared to 119.380 on 9 October 2026. This represents a rise of 1.85 percent.
Sample. In this daily time series, there are 3,856 observations overall. The span of time covered by the series extends from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some simple statistics computed on the whole sample: the forward price reached a trough of 37.750 USD/tonne on 15 January 2016; it recorded its maximum of 294.225 on 5 September 2022; it had a mean value of 93.309.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | 119.524 |
| 2026-10-09 | 119.380 |
| 2026-10-12 | 121.592 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 29-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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