7-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 7-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 127.914 USD/tonne on 12 October 2026, compared to 125.100 on 9 October 2026. This constitutes an increase of 2.25 percent.
Sample. There are 3,856 data points in the daily time series presented in the graph above. The time range covered by the series extends from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: the forward price recorded a bottom of 41.050 USD/tonne on 15 January 2016; it recorded its highest level of 366.801 on 2 March 2022; it had a mean of 97.271.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | 125.570 |
| 2026-10-09 | 125.100 |
| 2026-10-12 | 127.914 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 7-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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