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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000950157-25-000233
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	POS AM
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FILED AS OF DATE:		20250314
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20250314

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Star Bulk Carriers Corp.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001386716
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	DEEP SEA FOREIGN TRANSPORTATION OF FREIGHT [4412]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	01 Energy & Transportation
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			1T
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		POS AM
		SEC ACT:		1933 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	333-232765
		FILM NUMBER:		25737870

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		C/O STAR BULK MANAGEMENT INC.
		STREET 2:		40 AGIOU KONSTANTINOU STR, MAROUSSI
		CITY:			ATHENS
		STATE:			J3
		ZIP:			15124
		BUSINESS PHONE:		011-30-210-617-8400

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		C/O STAR BULK MANAGEMENT INC.
		STREET 2:		40 AGIOU KONSTANTINOU STR, MAROUSSI
		CITY:			ATHENS
		STATE:			J3
		ZIP:			15124
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    <div style="text-align: center;">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 14, 2025</div>
    <div style="text-align: right; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">Registration No. 333-252808</div>
    <div style="text-align: right; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">Registration No. 333-234125</div>
    <div style="text-align: right; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">Registration No. 333-232765</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;">UNITED STATES</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO:</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 18pt; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;">Form F-3</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 252808</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 18pt; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;">Form F-3</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 234125</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 18pt; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;">Form F-3</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 232765</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">UNDER</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold;">STAR BULK CARRIERS CORP.</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Republic of The Marshall Islands<br>
              (State or other jurisdiction of<br>
              incorporation or organization)<br>
              Star Bulk Carriers Corp.<br>
              c/o Star Bulk Management Inc.<br>
              40 Agiou Konstantinou Str. Maroussi 15124,<br>
              Athens, Greece<br>
              011-30-210-617-8400 (telephone number)<br>
              (Address and telephone number of<br>
              Registrant&#8217;s principal executive offices)</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">N/A<br>
              (I.R.S. Employer<br>
              Identification No.)<br>
              Star Bulk Carriers Corp.<br>
              c/o Star Bulk (USA) LLC<br>
              Attention: Hamish Norton<br>
              358 5th Avenue, Suite 1207, New York, NY 10001<br>
              (646) 559-1140 (telephone number)<br>
              (Name, address and telephone<br>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Copies to:</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Georgia Mastagaki, Co-General Counsel<br>
              Sofia Damigou, Co-General Counsel<br>
              Star Bulk Carriers Corp.<br>
              c/o Star Bulk Management Inc.<br>
              40 Agiou Konstantinou Str. Maroussi 15124,<br>
              Athens, Greece<br>
              011-30-210-617-8400 (telephone number)</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">D. Scott Bennett, Esq.<br>
              Cravath, Swaine &amp; Moore LLP<br>
              Two Manhattan West</div>
            <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">375 Ninth Avenue<br>
              New York, NY 10001<br>
              (212) 474-1000 (telephone number)</div>
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    <div style="text-indent: 18pt; color: #231F20;"><font style="font-style: italic;">Approximate Date of Commencement of Proposed Sale of the Securities to the Public: </font>Not Applicable</div>
    <div style="text-indent: 18pt; color: #231F20;">If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. &#9744;</div>
    <div style="text-indent: 18pt; color: #231F20;">If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, check the following box. &#9744;</div>
    <div style="text-indent: 18pt; color: #231F20;">If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement
      number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. &#9744;</div>
    <div style="text-indent: 18pt; color: #231F20;">If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier
      effective registration statement for the same offering. &#9744;</div>
    <div style="text-indent: 18pt; color: #231F20;">If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.C. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e)
      under the Securities Act, check the following box. &#9744;</div>
    <div style="text-indent: 18pt;"><font style="color: #231F20;">If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction</font>&#160;<font style="color: #231F20;">I.C. filed to register additional securities
        or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box. &#9744;</font></div>
    <div style="text-indent: 18pt; color: #231F20;">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933.</div>
    <div style="text-align: right; text-indent: 18pt; color: #231F20;">Emerging growth company &#9744;</div>
    <div style="text-indent: 18pt; color: #231F20;">If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for
      complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards&#8224; provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act &#9744;</div>
    <div style="text-indent: 18pt;">&#8224;The term &#8220;new or revised financial accounting standard&#8221; refers to any update issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to its Accounting Standards Codification after April 5, 2012.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">EXPLANATORY NOTE</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 relates to the following registration statements on Form F-3 (each, a &#8220;Registration Statement&#8221; and collectively, the &#8220;Registration Statements&#8221;):</div>
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            <div>Registration Statement on Form F-3 (Registration No. 333-252808) filed by Star Bulk Carriers Corp. (the &#8220;Registrant&#8221;) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#8220;SEC&#8221;) on February 5, 2021 registering 5,100,000 shares of the
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            <div>Registration Statement on Form F-3 (Registration No. 333-<font style="color: #231F20;">234125</font>) filed by the Registrant with the SEC on October 7, 2019 registering 1,537,110 shares of Common Stock to be sold from time to time by the
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            <div>Registration Statement on Form F-3 (Registration No. 333-<font style="color: #231F20;">232765</font>) filed by the Registrant with the SEC on July 23, 2019, registering 2,966,260 shares of Common Stock to be sold from time to time by the
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">The Registrant is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statements to reflect that no shares of Common Stock remain unsold pursuant to the Registration Statements and is
      terminating all offerings of its Common Stock pursuant to the Registration Statements. The Registrant believes that all shares of Common Stock covered by the Registration Statements were sold by the selling shareholders and/or any relevant
      contractual registration rights have terminated.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">In accordance with an undertaking in the Registration Statements to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities that had been registered under the
      Registration Statements but remain unsold at the termination of the offerings, the Registrant hereby removes from registration any and all securities of the Registrant that have been registered for issuance under the Registration Statements but
      remain unsold. The Registration Statements are hereby amended to reflect the termination of the offerings and the removal from registration of any and all securities of the Registrant that have been registered for issuance under the Registration
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    <div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt; color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">SIGNATURES</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form F-3
      and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statements to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Athens, Country of Greece, on March 14, 2025.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt; color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">AUTHORIZED UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">Pursuant to the requirement of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the undersigned, the duly undersigned representative in the United States of the Registrant, has signed this Post-Effective
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