34-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 34-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 121.793 USD/tonne on 12 October 2026, versus 119.530 on 9 October. This marks an increase of 1.89 percent.
Sample. In this daily time series, there are 3,856 data points overall. The series covers the span of time stretching from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: the forward price reached a trough of 37.750 USD/tonne on 15 January 2016; it hit a peak of 292.842 on 5 September 2022; it was equal on average to 93.439.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | 119.673 |
| 2026-10-09 | 119.530 |
| 2026-10-12 | 121.793 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 34-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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