3-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 3-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 130.021 USD/tonne on 12 October 2026, compared to 128.852 on 9 October 2026. This constitutes a rise of 0.91 percent.
Sample. There are 3,856 records overall in the daily series presented in the chart above. The time range covered by the series goes from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Check out some simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: the forward price recorded a minimum of 44.856 USD/tonne on 22 December 2015; it hit a peak of 422.871 on 7 March 2022; it had a mean value of 99.256.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | 129.321 |
| 2026-10-09 | 128.852 |
| 2026-10-12 | 130.021 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 3-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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