d890796_6-k.htm

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.  20549

FORM 6-K

REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE 13A-16 OR 15D-16 OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the month of June 2008

Commission File Number:  001-13944

NORDIC AMERICAN TANKER SHIPPING LIMITED
(Translation of registrant’s name into English)
 
LOM Building, 27 Reid Street, Hamilton, HM 11, Bermuda
(Address of principal executive office)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.

Form 20-F [X]       Form 40-F [  ]

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1): ___

Note: Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1) only permits the submission in paper of a Form 6-K if submitted solely to provide an attached annual report to security holders.

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)7: ___

Note: Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7) only permits the submission in paper of a Form 6-K if submitted to furnish a report or other document that the registrant foreign private issuer must furnish and make public under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the registrant is incorporated, domiciled or legally organized (the registrant's "home country"), or under the rules of the home country exchange on which the registrant's securities are traded, as long as the report or other document is not a press release, is not required to be and has not been distributed to the registrant's security holders, and, if discussing a material event, has already been the subject of a Form 6-K submission or other Commission filing on EDGAR.

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.  Yes [_]   No [X]

If “Yes” is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the registrant in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b):
82-______________.

 
 

 

INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS FORM 6-K REPORT
 
Attached as Exhibit 1 is a press release of  Nordic American Tanker Shipping Limited, dated June 9, 2008, announcing the date of the Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

 
 

 

Exhibit 1

 
 
 
Nordic American Tanker Shipping Limited
 
Nordic American Tanker Shipping Limited. Announces Annual Meeting Date

Hamilton, Bermuda, June 9, 2008.

Nordic American Tanker Shipping Limited (NYSE:NAT) (the “Company”) has earlier informed shareholders that it has set its Annual Meeting of Shareholders for June 23, 2008, at the Company’s headquarters at the LOM Building, 27 Reid Street, Hamilton, Bermuda at 10:00 am, Bermuda time.  Proxy materials were mailed to shareholders of record as of May 22, 2008.  Shareholders who wish to make inquiries regarding the Annual Meeting may contact Georgeson, the Company’s proxy solicitor, at 1-800-676-0216 or the Company as per below contact details.


 
Contacts:
 
Scandic American Shipping Ltd
Manager for:
Nordic American Tanker Shipping Ltd.
P.O Box 56, 3201 Sandefjord, Norway
Tel: + 47 33 42 73 00 E-mail:  nat@scandicamerican.com
 
Web-site:  www.nat.bm
 
Rolf Amundsen, Investor Relations
Nordic American Tanker Shipping Ltd.
Tel: +1 800 601 9079 or + 47 908 26 906
 
Gary Wolfe
Seward & Kissel LLP, New York, USA
Tel: +1 212 574 1223
 
Turid M. Sørensen, CFO
Nordic American Tanker Shipping Limited
Tel:  + 47 33 42 73 00 or + 47 905 72 927
 
Herbjørn Hansson, Chairman & CEO
Nordic American Tanker Shipping Ltd.
Tel:  +1 866 805 9504 or + 47 901 46 291


 
 

 

 SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.


NORDIC AMERICAN TANKER SHIPPING LIMITED
(registrant)


Dated:  June 9, 2008
By:
/s/ Herbjørn Hansson
   
Herbjørn Hansson
   
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President




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