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CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20070731
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DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20070710

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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		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-13944
		FILM NUMBER:		07972396

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

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		STREET 1:		LOM BUILDING
		STREET 2:		27 REID STREET
		CITY:			HAMILTON HM 11
		STATE:			D0
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      American Tanker Shipping Limited (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) and related
      materials.&#160;&#160;The Annual General Meeting, formerly scheduled for June
      20, 2007, will be held at the offices of Seward &amp; Kissel LLP, One Battery
      Park Plaza, New York, New York on July 31, 2007 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern daylight
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      of a majority of the votes cast at the meeting.&#160;&#160;We urge you to vote
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      COMPLETE, DATE, SIGN AND RETURN THE ENCLOSED PROXY CARD FOR THE RESCHEDULED
      MEETING IN ORDER FOR YOUR PROXY TO BE EFFECTIVE. WHETHER OR NOT YOU PLAN TO
      ATTEND THE RESCHEDULED ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, RETURN THE ENCLOSED PROXY CARD
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      STATES.&#160;&#160;THE VOTE OF EVERY SHAREHOLDER IS IMPORTANT AND YOUR
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      Nordic American Tanker Shipping Limited (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) will be held on July 31,
      2007 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern daylight time at the offices of Seward &amp; Kissel
      LLP located at One Battery Park Plaza, New York, New York, for the following
      purposes, of which items 1 through 3 are more completely set forth in the
      accompanying Proxy Statement:</font></div>
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      ATTEND THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, PLEASE RETURN THE ENCLOSED PROXY IN THE
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      2,
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      enclosed proxy is solicited on behalf of the Board of Directors (the &#8220;Board&#8221; or
      the &#8220;Directors&#8221;) of Nordic American Tanker Shipping Limited, a Bermuda company
      (the &#8220;Company&#8221;), for use at the rescheduled Annual General Meeting of
      Shareholders to be held at the offices of Seward &amp; Kissel LLP located at One
      Battery Park Plaza, New York, New York, on July 31, 2007 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern
      daylight 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;The Company has rescheduled the date
      and time of the meeting which was previously scheduled for June 20,
      2007.&#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
      Meeting on or about July 2, 2007.</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; 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&#8217;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><br>
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      Company currently has seven directors.&#160;&#160;As provided in the Company&#8217;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
      from the Board of Directors effective at the Meeting.&#160;&#160;Accordingly,
      the Board of Directors has nominated the seven persons listed below for election
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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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      Business Administration and Harvard Business School. In 1974 he was employed
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      the Norwegian Shipowners&#8217; Association. In the period from 1975 to 1980, he was
      Chief Economist and Research Manager of INTERTANKO, an industry association
      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
      Financial Officer of Kosmos/Andres Jahre, at the time one of the largest
      Norwegian based shipping and industry groups. In 1989, Mr.&#160;Hansson founded
      Ugland Nordic Shipping AS, or UNS, which became one of the world&#8217;s largest
      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
      of
      $780.0 million. He continued to work with Teekay, most recently as Vice Chairman
      of Teekay Norway AS, until he started working full-time for the Company on
      September&#160;1, 2004. Mr.&#160;Hansson is the founder and has been Chairman
      and Chief Executive Officer of the Company since its establishment in 1995.
      He
      also is a member of various governing bodies of companies within shipping,
      insurance, banking, manufacturing, national/international shipping agencies
      including classification societies and protection and indemnity associations.
      Mr.&#160;Hansson is fluent in Norwegian and English, and has a command of German
      and French for conversational purposes.</font></div>
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      Ove Ugland</strong> has been a director of the Company since February 1997.
      Mr.&#160;Ugland has also served as director and Chairman of Ugland International
      Holding plc, a shipping/transport company listed on the London Stock Exchange,
      Andreas Ugland&#160;&amp; Sons AS, Grimstad, Norway, H&#248;egh Ugland Autoliners AS,
      Oslo and Buld Associates Inc., Bermuda. Mr.&#160;Ugland has had his whole career
      in shipping in the Ugland family owned shipping group. Mr.&#160;Ugland is a
      shareholder and the Chairman of our Manager, Scandic American Shipping
      Ltd.</font></div>
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      March</strong> has been a director of the Company since June 2005.
      Mr.&#160;March also currently serves in a management position with Vitol S.A.,
      an international oil trader, involved in supply, logistics and transport and
      as
      a director for Imarex, an electronic trading platform for freight derivatives.
      From 1978 to 2004, Mr.&#160;March served in various positions with subsidiaries
      of BP p.l.c., an international oil major company. Most recently, from January
      2001 to 2004, Mr.&#160;March was Commercial Director of BP Shipping Ltd.,
      responsible for all aspects of the business including long term strategy. From
      1986 to 2000, Mr.&#160;March was employed in various positions with BP Trading,
      serving as Global Product Trading Manager from 1999. Mr.&#160;March received his
      MBA from Liverpool University.</font></div>
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      David Gibbons </strong>has been a director of the Company since September 1995.
      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
      Son
      Limited from 1986 to 1997, Chairman of Colonial Insurance Co. Ltd. since 1986
      and as Chief Executive Officer of Edmund Gibbons Ltd. since 1954. Sir David
      Gibbons is a member of our Audit Committee.</font></div>
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      J. Hopkins</strong> has been a director of the Company since June 2005.
      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
      the
      Board of the Norwegian Register of Securities and Vice Chairman of the Board
      of
      Directors of the Oslo Stock Exchange. Mr.&#160;Glads&#248; is Chairman of our Audit
      Committee.</font></div>
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      H. K. Vietor </strong>is a nominee for director.&#160;&#160;Mr. Vietor is the
      Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at the Harvard Graduate
      School of Business Administration where he teaches courses on the regulation
      of
      business and the international political economy.&#160;&#160;He was appointed
      Professor in 1984.&#160;&#160;Before coming to Harvard Business School in 1978,
      Professor Vietor held faculty appointments at Virginia Polytechnic Institute
      and
      the University of Missouri.&#160;&#160;He received a B.A. in economics from
      Union College in 1967, an M.A. in history from Hofstra University in 1971,
      and a
      Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1975.</font></div>
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      Vote</em>.&#160;&#160;Approval of Proposal One will require the affirmative vote
      of a majority of the votes cast by shareholders entitled to vote in the
      election.</font></div>
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      Committee.</em>&#160;&#160;In accordance with the rules of the NYSE, the
      Company&#8217;s Board of Directors has established an Audit Committee, consisting of
      two independent directors.&#160;&#160;The members of the Audit Committee are Mr.
      Glads&#248; and Sir David Gibbons. </font></div>
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      Hansson serves as the Company&#8217;s President and Chief Executive
      Officer.&#160;&#160;Turid M. S&#248;rensen is the Company&#8217;s Chief Financial
      Officer.</font></div>
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      BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS A VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE PROPOSED
      DIRECTORS.&#160;&#160;UNLESS REVOKED AS PROVIDED ABOVE, PROXIES RECEIVED BY
      MANAGEMENT WILL BE VOTED IN FAVOR OF ALL SUCH PROPOSED DIRECTORS UNLESS A
      CONTRARY VOTE IS SPECIFIED.</strong></font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="center"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;"><strong>INDEPENDENT
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;">The
      Board
      is submitting for approval at the Meeting the selection of Deloitte AS as the
      Company&#8217;s independent auditors for the fiscal year 2007.&#160;&#160;The Board
      will also lay before the Meeting the Company&#8217;s audited
      financial</font></div><br>
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      for the year ended December&#160;31, 2006.&#160;&#160;These financial statements
      are being distributed to shareholders as part of the Company&#8217;s 2006 Annual
      Report.</font></div>
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      AS has advised the Company that the firm does not have any direct or indirect
      financial interest in the Company, nor has such firm had any such interest
      in
      connection with the Company during the past three fiscal years other than in
      its
      capacity as the Company&#8217;s independent auditors.</font></div>
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      services rendered by the independent auditors are subject to review by the
      Audit
      Committee.</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;"><em>Required
      Vote</em>.&#160;&#160;Approval of Proposal Two will require the affirmative vote
      of the majority of the votes cast by shareholders entitled to vote
      thereon.</font></div>
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      BOARD
      OF DIRECTORS UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS A VOTE FOR APPROVAL OF THE APPOINTMENT
      OF
      DELOITTE AS AS INDEPENDENT AUDITORS OF THE COMPANY FOR THE 2007 FISCAL
      YEAR.&#160;&#160;UNLESS REVOKED AS PROVIDED ABOVE, PROXIES RECEIVED BY
      MANAGEMENT WILL BE VOTED IN FAVOR OF SUCH APPROVAL UNLESS A CONTRARY VOTE IS
      SPECIFIED.</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;">The
      cost
      of preparing and soliciting proxies will be borne by the
      Company.&#160;&#160;Solicitation will be made primarily by mail, but
      shareholders may be solicited by telephone, e-mail, or personal
      contact.&#160;&#160;The Board of Directors may retain the services of a
      professional proxy solicitation service for soliciting proxies.</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;">Abstentions
      will not be counted in determining whether Proposals One or Two have been
      approved.</font></div>
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      MATTERS</strong></font></div>
    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify">&#160;</div>
    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;">No
      other
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      By Order of the Directors</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 288pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Peter
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      2,
      2007</font></div>
    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;">Hamilton,
      Bermuda</font></div>
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      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.</font></div>
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      AMERICAN TANKER SHIPPING LIMITED</strong></font></div>
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      10,
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