9-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 9-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 127.007 USD/tonne on 12 October 2026, compared to 123.828 on 9 October. This constitutes an increase of 2.57 percent.
Sample. There are 3,856 observations overall in the daily time series presented in the chart above. The period covered by the series extends from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: the forward price recorded a maximum of 356.990 USD/tonne on 2 March 2022; it registered a minimum of 39.666 on 15 January 2016; it had a mean of 96.523.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | 124.238 |
| 2026-10-09 | 123.828 |
| 2026-10-12 | 127.007 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 9-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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