5-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 5-month forward price of Richards Bay coal stood at 129.209 USD/tonne on 12 October 2026, compared to 127.440 on 9 October. This marks a gain of 1.39 percent.
Sample. There are 3,856 observations in the daily time series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time span extending from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics computed on the whole sample: the forward price was equal on average to 98.088 USD/tonne; it reached its minimum of 42.379 on 11 February 2016; it reached a maximum of 381.609 on 2 March 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | 128.335 |
| 2026-10-09 | 127.440 |
| 2026-10-12 | 129.209 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 5-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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