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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000919574-25-007238
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	6-K
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CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20251231
FILED AS OF DATE:		20251204
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20251204

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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]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	01 Energy & Transportation
		EIN:				000000000

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		6-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-32458
		FILM NUMBER:		251550206

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

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		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-weight: bold;">FORM 6-K</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE 13A-16 OR 15D-16</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center;">For the month of December 2025</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">DIANA SHIPPING INC.</div>
    <div style="text-align: center;">(Translation of registrant's name into English)</div>
    <div style="text-align: center;">Pendelis 16, 175 64 Palaio Faliro, Athens, Greece</div>
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    <div>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: center; font-weight: bold;">INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS FORM 6-K REPORT</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify;">Attached to this Report on Form 6-K as <a href="d12051956_ex99-1.htm">Exhibit 99.1</a> is a press release dated December 4, 2025, of
        Diana Shipping Inc. (the "Company"), announcing that, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, it has entered into a time charter contract with Stone Shipping Ltd, for one of its Ultramax dry bulk vessels, the m/v DSI Pollux.</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify;">The information contained in this Report on Form 6-K is hereby incorporated by reference into the Company's registration statements on Form F-3 (File Nos. 333-266999 and 333-280693) that were filed with the U.S.
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        <div style="text-align: justify;">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.</div>
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                <div>Dated: December 4, 2025</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 216pt; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 216pt;">Corporate Contact:</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 216pt; font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 216pt;">Ioannis Zafirakis</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-left: 396pt; font-size: 12pt;">Director, Co-Chief Financial Officer,</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-left: 396pt; font-size: 12pt;">Chief Strategy Officer,</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-left: 396pt; font-size: 12pt;">Treasurer and Secretary</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 216pt; font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 216pt;">Telephone: + 30-210-9470-100</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 216pt; font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 216pt;">Email: <font style="color: rgb(5, 54, 246);"><u>izafirakis@dianashippinginc.com</u></font></div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 216pt; font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 216pt;">Website: <font style="color: rgb(5, 54, 246);"><u>www.dianashippinginc.com</u></font></div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 216pt; font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 216pt;">X: @Dianaship</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 216pt; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 216pt;">Investor Relations/Media Contact:</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 216pt; font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 216pt;">Nicolas Bornozis / Daniela Guerrero</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-left: 396pt; font-size: 12pt;">Capital Link, Inc.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-left: 396pt; font-size: 12pt;">230 Park Avenue, Suite 1540</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-left: 396pt; font-size: 12pt;">New York, N.Y. 10169</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-left: 396pt; font-size: 12pt;">Tel.: (212) 661-7566</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-left: 396pt; font-size: 12pt;">Email: <font style="color: rgb(5, 54, 246);"><u>diana@capitallink.com</u></font></div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">DIANA SHIPPING INC. ANNOUNCES TIME CHARTER CONTRACTS</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">FOR M/V DSI POLLUX WITH STONE SHIPPING</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">AND M/V DSI ANDROMEDA WITH WESTERN BULK</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt;">ATHENS, GREECE, December 4, 2025 &#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, today announced
      that, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, it has entered into a time charter contract with Stone Shipping Ltd, for one of its Ultramax dry bulk vessels, the m/v DSI Pollux. The gross charter rate is US$14,750, minus a 5.00% commission paid to
      third parties, for a period until minimum January 1, 2027 up to maximum February 28, 2027. The charter is expected to commence on December 8, 2025. The m/v DSI Pollux is currently chartered to Bunge SA, Geneva, at a gross charter rate of US$14,000
      per day, minus a 5.00% commission paid to third parties.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt;">The &#8220;DSI Pollux&#8221; is a 60,446 dwt Ultramax bulk vessel built in 2015.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt;">The Company also announced that, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, it has entered into a time charter contract with Western Bulk Carriers AS, for one of its Ultramax dry bulk vessels, the m/v
      DSI Andromeda. The gross charter rate is US$14,600, minus a 5.00% commission paid to third parties, for a period until minimum April 1, 2027 up to maximum May 31, 2027. The charter is expected to commence on December 7, 2025. The m/v DSI Andromeda
      was chartered, as previously announced, to Cargill Ocean Transportation (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., at a gross charter rate of US$14,000 per day, minus a 4.75% commission paid to third parties.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt;">The &#8220;DSI Andromeda&#8221; is a 60,309 dwt Ultramax bulk vessel built in 2016.</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt;">The employments of &#8220;DSI Pollux&#8221; and &#8220;DSI Andromeda&#8221; are anticipated to generate a total of approximately US$12.60 million of gross revenue for the minimum scheduled period of the time charters.</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt;">Diana Shipping Inc.&#8217;s fleet currently consists of 36 dry bulk vessels (4 Newcastlemax, 8 Capesize, 4 Post-Panamax, 6 Kamsarmax, 5 Panamax and 9 Ultramax). The Company also expects to take delivery of
        two methanol dual fuel new-building Kamsarmax dry bulk vessels by the second half of 2027 and the first half of 2028, respectively. As of today, the combined carrying capacity of the Company&#8217;s fleet, excluding the two vessels not yet delivered, is
        approximately 4.1 million dwt, with a weighted average age of 12.03 years. A table describing the current Diana Shipping Inc. fleet can be found on the Company&#8217;s website, www.dianashippinginc.com. Information contained on the Company&#8217;s website does
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        <div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">About the Company</div>
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        <div style="text-align: justify; 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 vessels are employed primarily on short to medium-term time charters and transport a range of dry bulk cargoes, including such commodities as iron ore, coal, grain and other materials along worldwide shipping routes.</div>
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        <div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements</div>
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        <div style="text-align: justify; 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-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 statements.</div>
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        <div style="text-align: justify; 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 expectations, beliefs or projections.</div>
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        <div style="text-align: justify; 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 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 Company&#8217;s operating expenses, including bunker prices, drydocking and insurance costs, the market for the Company&#8217;s vessels, availability of financing and refinancing, changes in governmental rules and regulations or actions taken by
          regulatory authorities, tariff policies and other trade restrictions, potential liability from pending or future litigation, general domestic and international political conditions, including risks associated with the continuing conflict between
          Russia and Ukraine and related sanctions, potential disruption of shipping routes due to accidents or political events, including the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, vessel breakdowns and instances of off-hires and other factors.
          Please see the Company&#8217;s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a more complete discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties. The Company undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statement,
          or to make any other forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.</div>
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