4-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 4-month forward price of Richards Bay coal stood at 129.561 USD/tonne on 12 October 2026, versus 128.060 on 9 October. This represents a gain of 1.17 percent.
Sample. This daily time series has 3,856 data points in total. The series covers the span of time going from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: the forward price attained a maximum of 407.421 USD/tonne on 7 March 2022; it reached its lowest level of 43.422 on 9 February 2016; it had a mean value of 98.726.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | 128.761 |
| 2026-10-09 | 128.060 |
| 2026-10-12 | 129.561 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 4-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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