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coal ship unloadingCoal ship unloading. Eric Kilby/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)Feb. 15, 2015 (World News Trust) -- The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) -- a measure of commodity shipping costs -- fell to an historic low. China has cut coal imports and a record-number of ships are competing for business.

The BDI dropped to 530 Friday, 24 points below a previous record in July and August, 1986, the Baltic exchange reported. The London-based exchange publishes rates on more than 50 trade routes.

Economists expect that China's economy will grow this year at the lowest rate since 1990. The shipping capacity of dry-bulk ships expanded 60 percent in the past five years, according to IHS Maritime data compiled by Bloomberg.

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