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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000919574-07-002957
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	6-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20070531
FILED AS OF DATE:		20070529
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20070529

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			NORDIC AMERICAN TANKER SHIPPING LTD
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001000177
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	WATER TRANSPORTATION [4400]
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

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		FORM TYPE:		6-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-13944
		FILM NUMBER:		07884623

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		LOM BUILDING
		STREET 2:		27 REID STREET
		CITY:			HAMILTON HM 11
		STATE:			D0
		ZIP:			00000
		BUSINESS PHONE:		(441) 292-7202

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		LOM BUILDING
		STREET 2:		27 REID STREET
		CITY:			HAMILTON HM 11
		STATE:			D0
		ZIP:			00000
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      Shipping Limited (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) and related materials.&#160;&#160;The Annual
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      Building, 27 Reid Street, Hamilton, Bermuda on June 20, 2007 at 9:00 a.m.
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      REQUIRE POSTAGE IF MAILED IN THE UNITED STATES.&#160;&#160;THE VOTE OF EVERY
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      Tanker Shipping Limited (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) will be held on June 20, 2007 at 9:00
      a.m. Bermuda time at the Company&#8217;s offices located at the LOM Building, 27 Reid
      Street, Hamilton, Bermuda, for the following purposes, of which items 1 through
      3 are more completely set forth in the accompanying Proxy
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      the &#8220;Directors&#8221;) of Nordic American Tanker Shipping Limited, a Bermuda company
      (the &#8220;Company&#8221;), for use at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders to be
      held at the Company&#8217;s offices located at the LOM Building, 27 Reid Street,
      Hamilton, Bermuda, at 9:00 a.m. Bermuda time, or at any adjournment or
      postponement thereof (the &#8220;Meeting&#8221;), for the purposes set forth herein and in
      the accompanying Notice of Annual General Meeting of
      Shareholders.&#160;&#160;This Proxy Statement and the accompanying form of proxy
      are expected to be mailed to shareholders of the Company entitled to vote at
      the
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 72pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;">On
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      26,914,088 common shares, par value $0.01 per share (&#8220;Common
      Shares&#8221;).&#160;&#160;Each shareholder of record at the close of business on the
      Record Date is entitled to one vote for each Common Share then
      held.&#160;&#160;One or more shareholders representing at least one third of the
      total voting rights of the Company present in person or by proxy at the Meeting
      shall be a quorum for the purposes of the Meeting.&#160;&#160;The Common Shares
      represented by any proxy in the enclosed form will be voted in accordance with
      the instructions given on the proxy if the proxy is properly executed and is
      received by the Company prior to the close of voting at the Meeting or any
      adjournment or postponement thereof.&#160;&#160;Any proxies returned without
      instructions will be voted FOR the proposals set forth on the Notice of Annual
      General Meeting of Shareholders.</font></div>
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      shareholder giving a proxy may revoke it at any time before it is
      exercised.&#160;&#160;A proxy may be revoked by filing with the Secretary of the
      Company at the Company's registered office, LOM Building, 27 Reid Street,
      Hamilton, Bermuda, a written notice of revocation by a duly executed proxy
      bearing a later date, or by attending the Meeting and voting in
      person.</font></div>
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      Company currently has seven directors.&#160;&#160;As provided in the Company's
      Bye-Laws, each Director shall hold office until his successor is elected or
      appointed or until his earlier resignation or removal.&#160;&#160;George C.
      Lodge, a current director of the Company, has indicated that he will be retiring
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      the proxy is marked to indicate that such authorization is expressly withheld,
      the persons named in the enclosed proxy intend to vote the shares authorized
      thereby FOR the election of the following seven nominees.&#160;&#160;It is
      expected that each of these nominees will be able to serve, but if before the
      election it develops that any of the nominees are unavailable, the persons
      named
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      or nominees as the current Board of Directors may recommend.</font></div>
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      concerning the nominees for directors of the Company is set forth
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      whose members control about 70% of the world&#8217;s independently owned tanker fleet,
      excluding state and oil company owned fleets. During the 1980s, he was Chief
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      Norwegian based shipping and industry groups. In 1989, Mr.&#160;Hansson founded
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      owners of specialized shuttle tankers. He served as Chairman in the first phase
      and as Chief Executive Officer from 1993 to 2001 when UNS, under his management,
      was sold to Teekay Shipping Corporation, or Teekay, for an enterprise value
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      and Chief Executive Officer of the Company since its establishment in 1995.
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      Andreas Ugland&#160;&amp; Sons AS, Grimstad, Norway, H&#248;egh Ugland Autoliners AS,
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      Sir David Gibbons served as the Premier of Bermuda from August 1977 to January
      1982. Sir David has served as Chairman of The Bank of N.T. Butterfield and
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      and as Chief Executive Officer of Edmund Gibbons Ltd. since 1954. Sir David
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      Mr.&#160;Hopkins is also a Vice President and a director of Corridor Resources
      Inc., a Canadian publicly traded exploration and production petroleum company.
      From 1989 through 1993 he served with Lasmo as Project Manager during the
      start-up of the Cohasset/Panuke oilfield offshore Nova Scotia, the first
      offshore oil production in Canada. Earlier, Mr.&#160;Hopkins served as a
      consultant on frontier engineering and petroleum economic evaluations in the
      international oil industry. Mr.&#160;Hopkins was seconded to Chevron UK in 1978
      to assist with the gas export system for the Ninian Field. From 1973, he was
      employed with Ranger Oil (UK) Limited, being involved in the drilling and
      production testing of oil wells in the North Sea. Through the end of 1972 he
      worked with Shell Canada as part of its offshore Exploration Group.</font></div>
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      Mr.&#160;Gladso is a partner in Saga Corporate Finance AS. He has extensive
      experience within investment banking since 1978. He has been the Chairman of
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      Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at the Harvard Graduate
      School of Business Administration where he teaches courses on the regulation
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