8-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 8-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 127.407 USD/tonne on 12 October 2026, compared to 124.427 on 9 October 2026. This marks a rise of 2.39 percent.
Sample. There are 3,856 records overall in the daily series displayed in the graph above. The series covers the time span stretching from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few statistics we computed on the entire sample: the forward price achieved a maximum of 357.785 USD/tonne on 2 March 2022; it registered a minimum of 41.037 on 15 January 2016; it averaged 96.877.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | 124.840 |
| 2026-10-09 | 124.427 |
| 2026-10-12 | 127.407 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 8-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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