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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000919574-23-000643
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	6-K
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CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20230228
FILED AS OF DATE:		20230201
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20230201

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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			DIANA SHIPPING INC.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001318885
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	DEEP SEA FOREIGN TRANSPORTATION OF FREIGHT [4412]
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000

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		FORM TYPE:		6-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-32458
		FILM NUMBER:		23577016

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		PENDELIS 16
		STREET 2:		175 64 PALAIO FALIRO
		CITY:			ATHENS
		STATE:			J3
		ZIP:			00000
		BUSINESS PHONE:		30-210-947-0100

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		STREET 1:		PENDELIS 16
		STREET 2:		175 64 PALAIO FALIRO
		CITY:			ATHENS
		STATE:			J3
		ZIP:			00000
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold;">WASHINGTON, D.C.&#160; 20549</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold;">REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE 13A-16 OR 15D-16</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">For the month of February 2023</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pendelis 16, 175 64 Palaio Faliro, Athens, Greece</div>
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    <div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Attached to this Report on Form 6-K as Exhibit 99.1 is a press release dated February 1, 2023 of Diana Shipping Inc. (the "Company")
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            <div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dated: February 1, 2023</div>
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            <div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">/s/ Anastassis Margaronis</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold;"><font style="font-size: 12pt;">DIANA SHIPPING INC. ANNOUNCES THE SALE OF A PANAMAX DRY</font></font></div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">ATHENS, GREECE, February 1, 2023 &#8211; Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE: DSX), (the &#8220;Company&#8221;), a global shipping company specializing in the ownership and bareboat
      charter-in of dry bulk vessels, announced that it has signed, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, a Memorandum of Agreement to sell one of its dry bulk vessels, the m/v Melia, to OceanPal Inc., a related party. The aggregate sale price of the
      vessel is US$14.0 million. Of the sale price, US$4.0 million was paid upon signing of the Memorandum of Agreement and the remaining amount will be paid upon the delivery of the vessel in the form of shares of the OceanPal Inc.&#8217;s Series D Preferred
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    <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The m/v Melia is a 2005-built Panamax dry bulk vessel with a carrying capacity of 76,225 dwt. Delivery to the buyer is expected to occur by the end of February
      2023. The sale and purchase of the vessel was made pursuant to OceanPal Inc.&#8217;s exercise of a right of first refusal granted by the Company on six identified vessels (including the m/v Melia) based on an agreement dated November 8, 2021. The sale of
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    <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Upon completion of the previously announced sale of m/v Aliki and the aforementioned sale, Diana Shipping Inc.&#8217;s fleet will consist of 41 dry bulk vessels (4
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    <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">About the Company</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Diana Shipping Inc. is a global provider of shipping transportation services through its ownership and bareboat charter-in of dry bulk vessels. The Company&#8217;s
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    <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements. The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides safe harbor
      protections for forward-looking statements in order to encourage companies to provide prospective information about their business. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or
      performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements, which are other than statements of historical facts.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Company desires to take advantage of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and is including this cautionary
      statement in connection with this safe harbor legislation. The words &#8220;believe,&#8221; &#8220;anticipate,&#8221; &#8220;intends,&#8221; &#8220;estimate,&#8221; &#8220;forecast,&#8221; &#8220;project,&#8221; &#8220;plan,&#8221; &#8220;potential,&#8221; &#8220;may,&#8221; &#8220;should,&#8221; &#8220;expect,&#8221; &#8220;pending&#8221; and similar expressions identify forward-looking
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    <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The forward-looking statements in this press release are based upon various assumptions, many of which are based, in turn, upon further assumptions, including
      without limitation, Company management&#8217;s examination of historical operating trends, data contained in the Company&#8217;s records and other data available from third parties. Although the Company believes that these assumptions were reasonable when made,
      because these assumptions are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies that are difficult or impossible to predict and are beyond the Company&#8217;s control, the Company cannot assure you that it will achieve or accomplish these
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    <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In addition to these important factors, other important factors that, in the Company&#8217;s view, could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed
      in the forward-looking statements include the severity, magnitude and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, including impacts of the pandemic and of businesses&#8217; and governments&#8217; responses to the pandemic on our operations, personnel, and on the demand
      for seaborne transportation of bulk products; the strength of world economies and currencies, general market conditions, including fluctuations in charter rates and vessel values, changes in demand for dry bulk shipping capacity, changes in the
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