36-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 36-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 122.687 USD/tonne on 12 October 2026, compared to 120.417 on 9 October 2026. This represents a gain of 1.89 percent.
Sample. There are 3,856 data points overall in the daily series shown in the figure above. The time range covered by the series extends from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Have a look at a few summary statistics calculated on the entire sample: the forward price was equal on average to 93.567 USD/tonne; it reached its maximum of 293.684 on 5 September 2022; it reached its lowest level of 37.450 on 16 February 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | 120.556 |
| 2026-10-09 | 120.417 |
| 2026-10-12 | 122.687 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 36-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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