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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000919574-17-003680
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	20-F/A
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		66
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20161231
FILED AS OF DATE:		20170501
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20170501

FILER:

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

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		20-F/A
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-13944
		FILM NUMBER:		17802012

	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

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	NORDIC AMERICAN TANKER SHIPPING LTD
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19950906
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(&amp;#8220;NAO&amp;#8221;) was incorporated on October 17, 2013, and operates Platform Supply Vessels (&amp;#8220;PSV&amp;#8221;). On November 18, 2013, NAO concluded a private placement of $250 million, wherein the Company participated with an investment of $65 million, or 4,333,566 shares. The investment NAO was accounted for using the equity method of accounting.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;In June 2014 NAO completed an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange wherein the Company acquired 375,000 shares for $5.6 million.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;In 2014 NAT distributed 699,802 NAO shares as dividend-in-kind to its shareholders. 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In February 2016 NAO purchased 1,571,749 of its own common shares in a private transaction.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;Based on the significance of the Company&amp;#8217;s ownership interest following that share repurchase program, the Company determined it has the ability to exercise significant influence over NAO and therefore, changed its method of accounting for the investment in NAO from an available-for-sale security to an equity method investment. 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width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;7,735&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; width: 56%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Noncurrent liabilities&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;136,568&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;47,608&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 56%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Total Shareholders&amp;#8217; Equity&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;234,196&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;280,857&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 56%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Total liabilities and equity&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;374,854&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;336,200&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;NAT&amp;#8217;s share of NAO&amp;#8217;s equity was $68.1 million and $75.0 million as of December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;Summarized Statement of Operations information for NAO is as follows:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; width: 90%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; margin-left: 9pt; width: 54%; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="10" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;Years ended December 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 54%;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;All figures in USD &amp;#8216;000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;2014&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; width: 54%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Operating Revenues&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;17,697&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;36,372&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;52,789&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 54%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Net Operating (Loss) Income&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;(28,543&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;(8,372&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;11,262&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 54%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Net (Loss) Income&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;(32,151&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;(10,844&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;6,931&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;NAT&amp;#8217;s portion of NAO&amp;#8217;s Net (Loss) Income in the Statements of Operations per December 31, 2016 and 2015 was ($9.3) million and ($2.5) million respectively.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; 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The holders of the restricted shares are entitled to receive dividends paid in the period as well as voting rights.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;In 2013 the Board of Directors amended the vesting requirements for 174,000 shares allocated under the 2011 Equity Incentive Plan and the vesting requirements were lifted. The lifting of the vesting requirements was in relation to the acquisition of Scandic American Shipping Ltd. This resulted in $1.1 million being charged to General and Administrative expense in the first quarter of 2013.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;In 2014 the Company repurchased 10,000 restricted common shares outstanding.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;In 2015, the Company repurchased from employees who have resigned a total of 33,000 restricted common shares and granted these amongst new employees with a four-year cliff vesting period and various grant date fair values.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;In 2016, the Company&amp;#160;received 13,500 shares from employees who have resigned. The shares are held as treasury shares&amp;#160;at December 31, 2016.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;The compensation expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the vesting period and is recorded as part of General and Administrative expenses. The total compensation expense related to restricted shares under the plan was $0.4 million, $0.4 million, and $1.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2016, December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014, respectively.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;As of December 31, 2016, unrecognized cost related to unvested shares aggregated to $1.5 million, which will be recognized over a weighted period of 2.7 years.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;The tables below summarize the Company&amp;#8217;s restricted stock awards as of December 31, 2016:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; 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border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"&gt;Weighted-&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"&gt;average &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"&gt;grant-date&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"&gt;fair value&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"&gt;- Employees&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; 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text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: right;"&gt;9.84&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; width: 36%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Granted during the year&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: right;"&gt;137,665&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: right;"&gt;14.65&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; 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width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: right;"&gt;-&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 36%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Forfeited during the year&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; 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  <us-gaap:EquityMethodInvestmentsPolicy contextRef="c20160101to20161231">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Investments in Equity Method Investees: &lt;/font&gt;Investments in other entities where the Company has &amp;#8220;significant influence&amp;#8221; in accordance with U.S. GAAP are accounted for using the equity method of accounting.&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;Under the equity method of accounting, the investment is stated at initial cost and is adjusted for subsequent additional investments and the Company&amp;#8217;s proportionate share of earnings or losses and distributions. The Company evaluates its investment in equity method investees for impairment when events or circumstances indicate that the carrying value of the investment may have experienced an other than temporary decline in value below its carrying value. If the estimated fair value is less than the carrying value and is considered an other than temporary decline, the carrying value is written down to its estimated fair value and the resulting impairment is recorded in the Statements of Operations.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:EquityMethodInvestmentsPolicy>
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  <!--Fair Value Adjustment of Warrants-->
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  <us-gaap:FairValueAdjustmentOfWarrants contextRef="c20140101to20141231" unitRef="U002" decimals="-3">915000</us-gaap:FairValueAdjustmentOfWarrants>
  <!--Fair Value Disclosures [Text Block]-->
  <us-gaap:FairValueDisclosuresTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20161231">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="DSPFListTable" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; width: 25.5pt; align: right;"&gt;16.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND OTHER FAIR VALUE DISCLOSURES&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;The majority of NAT and its subsidiaries&amp;#8217; transactions, assets and liabilities are denominated in United States dollars, the functional currency of the Company. There is no significant risk that currency fluctuations will have a negative effect on the value of the Company&amp;#8217;s cash flows.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;The Company categorizes its fair value estimates using a fair value hierarchy based on the inputs used to measure fair value for those assets that are recorded on the Balance Sheet at fair value. The fair value hierarchy has three levels based on the reliability of the inputs used to determine fair value as follows:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="DSPFListTable" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: top; width: 72pt; align: right;"&gt;Level 1.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: justify; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the reporting entity can access at the measurement date.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="DSPFListTable" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: top; width: 72pt; align: right;"&gt;Level 2.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: justify; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Inputs, other than the quoted prices in active markets, that are observable either directly or indirectly; and&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="DSPFListTable" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: top; width: 72pt; align: right;"&gt;Level 3.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: justify; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Unobservable inputs in which there is little or no market data, which require the reporting entity to develop its own assumptions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;The following methods and assumptions were used to estimate the fair value of each class of financial instruments and other financial assets.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="DSPFListTable" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="width: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: top; width: 18pt; align: right;"&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: justify; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;The carrying value of cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities, is a reasonable estimate of fair value.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="DSPFListTable" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="width: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: top; width: 18pt; align: right;"&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: justify; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;The estimated fair value for the long-term debt is considered to be equal to the carrying values since it bears spreads and variable interest rates which approximate market rates.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;The carrying value and estimated fair value of the Company`s financial instruments at December 31, 2016 and 2015, are as follows:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; text-align: justify; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;All figures in USD &amp;#8216;000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;Fair Value&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;Hierarchy&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;Level&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;Fair&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;Value&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;Carrying&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;Value&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;Fair&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;Value&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;Carrying&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;Value&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 40%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Cash and Cash Equivalents&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;1&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;82,170&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;82,170&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;29,889&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;29,889&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 12px;"&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 40%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Credit Facility&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;3&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;(447,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;(447,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;(330,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;(330,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:FairValueDisclosuresTextBlock>
  <!--Fair Value of Financial Instruments-->
  <us-gaap:FairValueOfFinancialInstrumentsPolicy contextRef="c20160101to20161231">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fair Value of Financial Instruments:&lt;/font&gt; The fair values of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued liabilities approximate carrying value because of the short-term nature of these instruments. For further information on fair value of financial instruments please see Note 16.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:FairValueOfFinancialInstrumentsPolicy>
  <!--Carrying value of estimated fair value of financial instruments-->
  <us-gaap:FairValueByBalanceSheetGroupingTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20161231">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;The carrying value and estimated fair value of the Company`s financial instruments at December 31, 2016 and 2015, are as follows:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; text-align: justify; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;All figures in USD &amp;#8216;000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;Fair Value&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;Hierarchy&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;Level&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; 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Amounts borrowed under the Credit Facility bear interest at an annual rate equal to LIBOR plus a margin and the Company pays a commitment fee, which is a percentage of the applicable margin, on any undrawn amounts. The Credit Facility original maturity&amp;#160;date&amp;#160;was October 2017.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;In December 2015 the Company expanded the Credit Facility from $430 million to $500 million. The new maturity of the credit facility is December 2020. There are no repayment requirements before maturity on the Credit Facility. The expanded facility was effective January 2016.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;Borrowings under the Credit Facility are secured by first priority mortgages over the Company&amp;#8217;s vessels and assignments of earnings and insurance. Under the Credit Facility, the Company is subject to certain covenants requiring among other things, the maintenance of (i) a minimum amount of equity; (ii) a minimum equity ratio; (iii) a minimum level of liquidity, (iv) positive working capital; and (v) a required security ratio of vessel values, according to broker reports, to drawn on the facility.&amp;#160; The Credit Facility also includes customary events of default including non-payment, breach of covenants, insolvency, cross default and material adverse change. The Company is permitted to pay dividends in accordance with its dividend policy as long as it is not in default under the Credit Facility.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;In connection with the expansion of the Credit Facility, the Company incurred $4.6 million in deferred financing costs in 2015.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;At the end of 2016 and 2015 the Company had $447 million and $330 million drawn under its Credit Facility, respectively.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;As of December 31, 2016, the Company was in default with one of its debt covenants; (v) required security ratio of vessel value clause. A waiver was obtained lowering the required ratio to a level where the Company is in compliance. This waiver is effective until May 31, 2018. &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Under the terms of the waiver obtained, we are unable to draw further on the Credit Facility, our margin is increased by 2.0% for the period of the waiver and we cannot distribute dividends exceeding 85% of our &amp;#8220;Adjusted Net Operating Earnings&amp;#8221; with respect to the first quarter of 2017, and 75% of Adjusted Net Operating Earnings as from the second quarter 2017 until we are in compliance with the terms of the original Credit Facility. The Adjusted Net Operating Earnings figure&amp;#160;is income from vessel operations before depreciation, any impairment losses, non-cash administrative charges and net financing costs.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;The Company was in compliance with its loan covenants as of December 31, 2015.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;The estimated fair value for the long-term debt is considered to be approximately equal to the carrying value since it bears a variable interest rate.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:LongTermDebtTextBlock>
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The Company&amp;#8217;s shares trade under the symbol &amp;#8220;NAT&amp;#8221; on the New York Stock Exchange. The Company was formed for the purpose of acquiring and chartering double-hull tankers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;The Company is an international tanker company that currently owns 33 Suezmax tankers, including three newbuildings expected to be delivered in 2018 and one newbuilding delivered in 2017, an increase from the three vessels owned in the autumn of 2004. The Company expects that the expansion process will continue over time and that more vessels will be added to its fleet. The 29 vessels the Company operated per December 31, 2016, average approximately 156,000 dwt each. In 2016, 2015 and 2014, the Company chartered its operating vessels primarily in the spot market.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;In January 2013 NAT acquired Scandic American Shipping Ltd. (&amp;#8220;Scandic&amp;#8221;) and NAT Chartering Ltd (formerly Orion Tankers Ltd) (&amp;#8220;NATC&amp;#8221;). Accordingly, these financial statements are presented on a consolidated basis for NAT and its subsidiaries (&amp;#8220;the Company&amp;#8221;). For the year ended December 31, 2016, and December 31, 2015, Scandic had the daily administrative and operational responsibility and NATC has provided services as the commercial manager. The Group provided assistance in the formation of Nordic American Offshore in 2013 and the initial public offering in 2014, and Scandic has provided administrative services in 2016, 2015 and 2014. For further details on the acquisition of the subsidiaries and the investment in NAO please see Note 4 and Note 5, respectively.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;Tanker markets are typically stronger in the fall and winter months (the fourth and first quarters of the calendar year) in anticipation of increased oil consumption in the northern hemisphere during the winter months.&amp;#160; Seasonal variations in tanker demand normally result in seasonal fluctuations in spot market charter rates.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"&gt;The Company&amp;#8217;s Fleet&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;Including four newbuildings, the Company&amp;#8217;s current fleet consists of 33 Suezmax crude oil tankers of which 31 were built, or are under construction, in Korea. The Company has entered into preliminary contracts for the construction of three Suezmax vessels expected to be delivered in the second half of 2018.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; border-collapse: collapse; width: 60%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Vessel&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Built&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Deadweight&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Tons&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Delivered to NAT&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Harrier&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;1997&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;151,459&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;1997&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Hawk&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;1997&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;151,475&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;1997&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Hunter&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;1997&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;151,401&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;1997&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Voyager&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;1997&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;149,591&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2004&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Fighter&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;1998&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;153,328&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2005&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Freedom&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2005&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;159,331&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2005&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Discovery&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;1998&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;153,328&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2005&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Saturn&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;1998&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;157,331&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2005&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Jupiter&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;1998&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;157,411&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2006&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Moon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2002&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;160,305&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2006&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Apollo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2003&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;159,998&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2006&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Cosmos&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2003&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;159,999&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2006&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Sprite&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;1999&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;147,188&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2009&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Grace&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2002&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;149,921&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2009&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Mistral&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2002&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;164,236&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2009&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Passat&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2002&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;164,274&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2010&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Vega&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2010&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;163,940&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2010&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Breeze&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;158,597&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Aurora&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;1999&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;147,262&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Zenith&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;158,645&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Sprinter&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2005&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;159,089&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2014&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Skier&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2005&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;159,089&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2014&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Light&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2010&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;158,475&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Cross&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2010&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;158,475&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Luna&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2004&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;150,037&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; 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However, the total voyage results recognized over all periods would not change.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02,&lt;/font&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;"&gt;Leases&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;"&gt;(Topic 842&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;). The update requires an entity to recognize right-of-use assets and lease liabilities on its balance sheet and disclose key information about leasing arrangements. It also offers specific accounting guidance for a lessee, a lessor and sale and leaseback transactions. Lessees and lessors are required to disclose qualitative and quantitative information about leasing arrangements to enable a user of the financial statements to assess the amount, timing and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases. The guidance will be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years and early adoption is permitted. The Company is in the process of evaluating the impact of this standard update on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We intend to adopt the new revenue and lease standards on January 1, 2018 and January 1, 2019, respectively. We are currently assessing the potential impacts of these new standards, if any, on our consolidated statements and related disclosures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-07,&amp;#160;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;"&gt;Investments-Equity Method and Joint Ventures (Topic 323): Simplifying the Transition to the Equity Method of Accounting.&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;The update eliminates the requirement that an investor retrospectively apply equity method accounting when an investment that it had accounted for by another method initially qualifies for use of the equity method. The guidance will be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim periods within those fiscal years and early adoption is permitted. The Company does not expect the adoption of this standard to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-09,&amp;#160;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;"&gt;Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting&lt;/font&gt;. The update requires excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies to be recorded on the income statement when the awards vest or are settled. In addition, cash flows related to excess tax benefits will no longer be separately classified as a financing activity on the statement of cash flows. 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If an entity early adopts the amendments in an interim period, any adjustments should be reflected as of the beginning of the fiscal year that includes that interim period. An entity that elects early adoption must adopt all of the amendments in the same period. The amendments in this Update should be applied using a retrospective transition method to each period presented. If it is impracticable to apply the amendments retrospectively for some of the issues, the amendments for those issues would be applied prospectively as of the earliest date practicable. The Company is in the process of evaluating the impact of this standard update on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-01, &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;"&gt;Business Combinations - Clarifying the Definition of a Business&lt;/font&gt;&amp;#160;to clarify the definition of a business with the objective of adding guidance to assist entities with evaluating whether transactions should be accounted for as acquisitions (or disposals) of assets or businesses. The definition of a business affects many areas of accounting including acquisitions, disposals, goodwill, and consolidation. ASU 2017-01 is effective in annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017. 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  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentImpairment contextRef="c20160101to20161231">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"&gt;Impairment of Vessels:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;The Company reviews for impairment long-lived assets held and used whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the assets may not be recoverable. In this respect, the Company reviews its assets for impairment on a vessel by vessel basis. When the estimate of undiscounted cash flows, excluding interest charges, expected to be generated by the use of the asset is less than its carrying amount, the Company evaluates the asset for impairment loss. The impairment loss is determined by the difference between the carrying amount of the asset and fair value (calculated based on estimated discounted operating cashflow). In developing estimates of future undiscounted cash flows, the Company makes assumptions and estimates about the vessels&amp;#8217; future performance, with the significant assumptions being related to charter rates, fleet utilization, operating expenses, capital expenditures, residual value and the estimated remaining useful life of each vessel. The assumptions used to develop estimates of future undiscounted cash flows are based on historical trends as well as future expectations. The estimated net operating cash flows are determined by considering an estimated daily time charter equivalent for the remaining operating days. The Company estimates the daily time charter equivalent for the remaining operating days based on the most recent fifteen year historical average for similar vessels and utilizing available market data for spot market rates over the remaining estimated life of the vessel, assumed to be 25 years from the delivery of the vessel from the shipyard, net of brokerage commissions, expected outflows for vessels&amp;#8217; maintenance and vessel operating expenses (including planned drydocking expenditures). The salvage value used in the impairment test is estimated to be $9.0 million per vessel. If the Company&amp;#8217;s estimate of undiscounted future cash flows for any vessel is lower than the vessel&amp;#8217;s carrying value, the carrying value is written down, by recording a charge to operations, to the vessel&amp;#8217;s fair value if the fair value is lower than the vessel&amp;#8217;s carrying value. Although the Company believes that the assumptions used to evaluate potential impairment are reasonable and appropriate, such assumptions are subjective. There can be no assurance as to how long charter rates and vessel values will remain at their currently low levels or whether they will improve by any significant degree. &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;There was no impairment on vessels for the years ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentImpairment>
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  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentPolicyTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20161231">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Vessels, Net:&lt;/font&gt; Vessels are stated at their historical cost, which consists of the contracted purchase price and any direct expenses incurred upon acquisition (including improvements, on site supervision expenses incurred during the construction period, commissions paid, delivery expenses and other expenditures to prepare the vessel for its initial voyage) less accumulated depreciation. Financing costs incurred during the construction period of the vessels are also capitalized and included in vessels&amp;#8217; cost based on the weighted-average method. Certain subsequent expenditures for conversions and major improvements are also capitalized if it is determined that they appreciably extend the life, increase the earning capacity or improve the efficiency or safety of the vessel. Depreciation is calculated based on cost less estimated residual value, and is provided over the estimated useful life of the related assets using the straight-line method. The estimated useful life of a vessel is 25 years from the date the vessel is delivered from the shipyard. Repairs and maintenance are expensed as incurred.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentPolicyTextBlock>
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  <!--Property, Plant and Equipment Disclosure [Text Block]-->
  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentDisclosureTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20161231">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="DSPFListTable" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; width: 25.5pt; align: right;"&gt;3.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: justify; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;VESSELS, NET&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;Vessels, net, consist of the carrying value of&amp;#160;29 vessels and 24 vessels for the year ended December 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015, respectively. Vessels, net include drydocking costs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; text-align: justify; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;All Figures in USD &amp;#8216;000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; width: 76%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Vessels&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;1,700,040&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;1,530,245&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 76%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Drydocking&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;99,153&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;82,695&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 76%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Total&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;1,799,193&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;1,612,940&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 76%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Less Accumulated Depreciation&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;(741,144&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;(650,255&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 76%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Vessels, net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;1,058,049&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;962,685&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"&gt;Impairment Loss on Vessels&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;The Company has not recorded impairment loss on vessels for the years ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively. 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  <!--Summary of company's restricted stock awards-->
  <us-gaap:ScheduleOfNonvestedRestrictedStockUnitsActivityTableTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20161231">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;The tables below summarize the Company&amp;#8217;s restricted stock awards as of December 31, 2016:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; width: 60%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; margin-left: 9pt; width: 36%; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"&gt;Restricted&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"&gt;shares -&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"&gt;Employees&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"&gt;Weighted-&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"&gt;average &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"&gt;grant-date&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"&gt;fair value&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"&gt;- Employees&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; width: 36%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Non-vested at January 1, 2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: right;"&gt;33,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: right;"&gt;9.84&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; width: 36%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Granted during the year&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: right;"&gt;137,665&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: right;"&gt;14.65&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; width: 36%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Vested during the year&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: right;"&gt;-&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: right;"&gt;-&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 36%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Forfeited during the year&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: right;"&gt;(13,500&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: right;"&gt;(13.40&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 36%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Non-vested at December 31, 2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: right;"&gt;157,165&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: right;"&gt;13.75&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:ScheduleOfNonvestedRestrictedStockUnitsActivityTableTextBlock>
  <!--Accrued liabilities-->
  <us-gaap:ScheduleOfAccruedLiabilitiesTableTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20161231">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-left: 18pt; width: 80%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 56%;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; text-align: justify; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;All figures in USD &amp;#8216;000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; width: 56%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Accrued Interest&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;1,437&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;1,639&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 56%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Accrued Expenses&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;6,211&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;7,938&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; width: 56%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Total as of December 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;7,648&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;9,577&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:ScheduleOfAccruedLiabilitiesTableTextBlock>
  <!--Basic and diluted earnings per share-->
  <us-gaap:ScheduleOfEarningsPerShareBasicAndDilutedTableTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20161231">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;Basic earnings per share (&amp;#8220;EPS&amp;#8221;) are computed by dividing net income (loss) by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding for the period. Diluted EPS is computed by dividing net income by the weighted-average number of common shares and dilutive common stock equivalents outstanding during the period.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; width: 90%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; margin-left: 9pt; width: 54%; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 9pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic;"&gt;All figures in USD except number of shares and earnings (loss) per common share&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;2014&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; width: 54%;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;"&gt;Numerator&lt;/font&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 12px;"&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; width: 54%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Net (Loss) Income&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;(4,456&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;)&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;114,627&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;(13,166&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; width: 54%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Denominator:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; 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width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 54%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Basic - Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;92,531,001&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;89,182,001&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;85,401,179&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; 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border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;89,182,001&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; 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text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; width: 54%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Basic&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;(0.05&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;)&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; 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font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;standing&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;Shares&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: middle; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;Common&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;Stock&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: middle; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 44%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Balance as of January 1, 2013&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;90,000,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;52,915,639&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;529&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: middle; width: 44%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Common Shares Issued in Follow-on Offering&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;20,556,250&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;206&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: middle; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 44%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Shares issued in connection with the Scandic acquisition&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;1,910,112&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;19&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: middle; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 44%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Balance as of December 31, 2013&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;90,000,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;75,382,001&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;754&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: middle; width: 44%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Common Shares Issued in Follow-on Offering&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;13,800,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;138&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: middle; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 44%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Increase in Authorized Shares&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;90,000,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: middle; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 44%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Balance as of December 31, 2014&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;180,000,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;89,182,001&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;892&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: middle; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 44%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Balance as of December 31, 2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;180,000,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;89,182,001&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;892&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: middle; width: 44%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Equity incentive plan issuance&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;137,665&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;1&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: middle; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 44%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Common Shares Issued&amp;#160;in Follow-on Offering&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; 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font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;127&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: middle; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 44%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Balance as of December 31, 2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;180,000,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;101,969,666&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; 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This has also been applied retrospectively to the comparative consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2015. The effect of the application on the consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2015, is a reduction of Long-Term Debt from $330.0 million to $324.6 million and a reduction in Other Non-Current Assets from $15.9 million to $10.5 million.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Principles of Consolidation: &lt;/font&gt;Entities in which NAT has controlling financial interest are consolidated. Subsidiaries are consolidated from the date on which control is obtained. The subsidiaries&amp;#8217; accounting policies are in conformity with U.S. GAAP. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated upon consolidation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;The equity method of accounting is used for investments in companies which NAT does not control, but over which NAT has the ability to exercise significant influence. The Company holds an ownership interest of 29.1% in Nordic American Offshore Ltd. (&amp;#8220;NAO&amp;#8221;).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Use of Estimates:&lt;/font&gt; Preparation of financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. The effects of changes in accounting estimates are accounted for in the same period in which the estimates are changed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Foreign Currency Translation: &lt;/font&gt;The functional currency of NAT is the United States (&amp;#8220;U.S.&amp;#8221;) dollar as all revenues are received in U.S. dollars and the majority of the expenditures are incurred and paid in U.S. dollars. Transactions in foreign currencies during the year are translated into U.S. dollars at the rates of exchange in effect at the date of the transaction&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt; The subsidiary of NATC, NAT Chartering AS, and the European branch of Scandic, both have Norwegian Kroners as their functional currency. All assets and liabilities of those entities are translated into U.S. dollars as of each balance sheet date. Translation gains and losses are reflected in shareholders&amp;#8217; equity as part of accumulated other comprehensive loss.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Revenue and Expense Recognition: &lt;/font&gt;Revenues and expenses are recognized on the accruals basis. Revenues are generated from spot charters.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;Voyage revenues and expenses are recognized ratably over the estimated length of each voyage and, therefore, are allocated between reporting periods based on the relative transit time in each period. The impact of recognizing voyage expenses ratably over the length of each voyage is not materially different on a quarterly and annual basis from a method of recognizing such costs as incurred. Probable losses on voyages are provided for in full at the time such losses can be estimated. Based on the terms of the customer agreement, a voyage is deemed to commence upon the completion of discharge of the vessel&amp;#8217;s previous cargo and is deemed to end upon the completion of discharge of the current cargo. However, the Company does not recognize revenue if a charter has not been contractually committed to by a customer and the Company, even if the vessel has discharged its cargo and is sailing to the anticipated load port on its next voyage.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Spot Charters:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;Revenue is generated from freight billing, as the Company is responsible for paying voyage expenses and the charterer is responsible for any delay at the loading or discharging ports. When the Company&amp;#8217;s tankers are operating on spot charters the vessels are traded fully at the risk and reward of the Company. The Company considers it appropriate to present the gross amount of earned revenue from the spot charter, showing voyage expenses related to the voyage separately in the Statements of Operations.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Time&amp;#160;Charters: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Under a time charter, the charterer pays for the voyage expenses, such as port, canal and fuel costs, while the shipowner pays for vessel operating expenses, including, among other costs, crew costs, provisions, deck and engine stores, lubricating oil, insurance, maintenance and repairs and costs relating to a vessel&amp;#8217;s intermediate and special surveys.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Vessel Operating Expenses&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;:&lt;/font&gt; Vessel operating expenses include crewing, repair and maintenance, insurance, stores, lubricants, management fee, communication expenses and tonnage tax. These expenses are recognized when incurred.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cash and Cash Equivalents:&lt;/font&gt; Cash and cash equivalents consist of highly liquid investments such as time deposits with original maturities of three months or less.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Accounts Receivable, Net:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;Accounts and other receivables are presented net of allowance for doubtful balances. If balances are determined uncollectable, after all means of collections have been exhausted and the potential for recovery is considered to be remote, they are charged against the allowance for doubtful balances. As of December 31, 2016, we made an allowance of approximately $150,000 for doubtful balances. No such allowance was made as of December 31, 2015.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Inventories: &lt;/font&gt;Inventories, which are comprised of bunker fuel and lubrication oil, are stated at the lower of cost or market. Cost is determined on a first-in, first-out (&amp;#8220;FIFO&amp;#8221;) basis.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Vessels, Net:&lt;/font&gt; Vessels are stated at their historical cost, which consists of the contracted purchase price and any direct expenses incurred upon acquisition (including improvements, on site supervision expenses incurred during the construction period, commissions paid, delivery expenses and other expenditures to prepare the vessel for its initial voyage) less accumulated depreciation. Financing costs incurred during the construction period of the vessels are also capitalized and included in vessels&amp;#8217; cost based on the weighted-average method. Certain subsequent expenditures for conversions and major improvements are also capitalized if it is determined that they appreciably extend the life, increase the earning capacity or improve the efficiency or safety of the vessel. Depreciation is calculated based on cost less estimated residual value, and is provided over the estimated useful life of the related assets using the straight-line method. The estimated useful life of a vessel is 25 years from the date the vessel is delivered from the shipyard. Repairs and maintenance are expensed as incurred.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"&gt;Impairment of Vessels:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;The Company reviews for impairment long-lived assets held and used whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the assets may not be recoverable. In this respect, the Company reviews its assets for impairment on a vessel by vessel basis. When the estimate of undiscounted cash flows, excluding interest charges, expected to be generated by the use of the asset is less than its carrying amount, the Company evaluates the asset for impairment loss. The impairment loss is determined by the difference between the carrying amount of the asset and fair value (calculated based on estimated discounted operating cashflow). In developing estimates of future undiscounted cash flows, the Company makes assumptions and estimates about the vessels&amp;#8217; future performance, with the significant assumptions being related to charter rates, fleet utilization, operating expenses, capital expenditures, residual value and the estimated remaining useful life of each vessel. The assumptions used to develop estimates of future undiscounted cash flows are based on historical trends as well as future expectations. The estimated net operating cash flows are determined by considering an estimated daily time charter equivalent for the remaining operating days. The Company estimates the daily time charter equivalent for the remaining operating days based on the most recent fifteen year historical average for similar vessels and utilizing available market data for spot market rates over the remaining estimated life of the vessel, assumed to be 25 years from the delivery of the vessel from the shipyard, net of brokerage commissions, expected outflows for vessels&amp;#8217; maintenance and vessel operating expenses (including planned drydocking expenditures). The salvage value used in the impairment test is estimated to be $9.0 million per vessel. If the Company&amp;#8217;s estimate of undiscounted future cash flows for any vessel is lower than the vessel&amp;#8217;s carrying value, the carrying value is written down, by recording a charge to operations, to the vessel&amp;#8217;s fair value if the fair value is lower than the vessel&amp;#8217;s carrying value. Although the Company believes that the assumptions used to evaluate potential impairment are reasonable and appropriate, such assumptions are subjective. There can be no assurance as to how long charter rates and vessel values will remain at their currently low levels or whether they will improve by any significant degree. &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;There was no impairment on vessels for the years ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Drydocking:&lt;/font&gt; The Company&amp;#8217;s vessels are required to be drydocked approximately every 30 to 60 months. The Company capitalizes eligible costs incurred during drydocking and amortizes those costs on a straight-line basis from the completion of a drydocking or intermediate survey to the estimated completion of the next drydocking. Consistent with prior periods, drydocking costs include a variety of costs incurred while vessels are placed within drydock, including expenses related to the dock preparation and port expenses at the drydock shipyard, general shipyard expenses, expenses related to hull, external surfaces and decks, expenses related to machinery and engines of the vessel, as well as expenses related to the testing and correction of findings related to safety equipment on board. The Company includes in capitalized drydocking those costs incurred as part of the drydock to meet classification and regulatory requirements. The Company expenses costs related to routine repairs and maintenance performed during drydocking, and for annual class survey costs. Ballast tank improvements are capitalized and amortized on a straight-line basis over a period of eight years. The capitalized and unamortized drydocking costs are included in the book value of the vessels. Amortization expense of the drydocking costs is included in depreciation expense.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Investments in Equity Method Investees: &lt;/font&gt;Investments in other entities where the Company has &amp;#8220;significant influence&amp;#8221; in accordance with U.S. GAAP are accounted for using the equity method of accounting.&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;Under the equity method of accounting, the investment is stated at initial cost and is adjusted for subsequent additional investments and the Company&amp;#8217;s proportionate share of earnings or losses and distributions. The Company evaluates its investment in equity method investees for impairment when events or circumstances indicate that the carrying value of the investment may have experienced an other than temporary decline in value below its carrying value. If the estimated fair value is less than the carrying value and is considered an other than temporary decline, the carrying value is written down to its estimated fair value and the resulting impairment is recorded in the Statements of Operations.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Business combinations:&lt;/font&gt; The Company uses the acquisition method of accounting, which requires an acquirer in a business combination to recognize the assets acquired, the liabilities assumed, and any non-controlling interest in the acquiree at their fair values at the acquisition date. The costs of the acquisition and any related restructuring costs are to be recognized separately in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. The acquired company's operating results are included in the Company's consolidated financial statements starting on the date of acquisition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;The purchase price is equivalent to the fair value of the consideration transferred and liabilities incurred. Tangible and identifiable intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed as of the date of acquisition are recorded at the acquisition date fair value. Goodwill is recognized for the excess of purchase price over the net fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Goodwill: &lt;/font&gt;Goodwill represents the excess of costs over the fair value of the assets of businesses NAT has acquired.&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;Goodwill is not amortized, but instead tested for impairment at the reporting unit level on an annual basis as of December 31, or more frequently if an event occurs or circumstances change that would more likely than not reduce the fair value of a reporting unit below its carrying value.&amp;#160;When goodwill is tested for impairment, the Company may elect to assess qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, including goodwill. Alternatively, the Company may bypass this step and use a fair value approach to identify potential goodwill impairment and, when necessary, measure the amount of impairment. The Company uses a discounted cash flow model to determine the fair value of the reporting unit, unless there is a readily determinable fair market value.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Deferred Compensation Liability: &lt;/font&gt;The Company has two individual deferred compensation agreements with the Company&amp;#8217;s CEO and CFO &amp;amp; EVP. The deferred compensation&amp;#160;liability of the CFO is&amp;#160;denominated in Norwegian currency. The liabilities are accounted for on an accrual basis using actuarial calculations. Any currency translation adjustments as well as actuarial gains and losses are recognized in general and administrative expenses as incurred.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Defined Benefit Plan: &lt;/font&gt;The employees of Scandic and NATC have defined benefit pension plans. The Company accrues the costs and related obligations associated with its defined benefit pension plans based on actuarial computations using the projected benefits obligation method and management&amp;#8217;s best estimates of expected plan investment performance, salary escalation, and other relevant factors. For the purpose of calculating the expected return on plan assets, those assets are valued at fair value. The underfunded status of the defined benefit pension plans are recognized as deferred compensation liability in the Balance Sheets. The Company recognizes as a component of other comprehensive loss, the gains or losses that arise during a period but that are not recognized as part of net periodic benefit costs. 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The time period over which revenue will be recognized is still being determined and, depending on the final conclusion, each period&amp;#8217;s voyage results could differ materially from the same period&amp;#8217;s voyage results recognized based on the present revenue recognition guidance. 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It also offers specific accounting guidance for a lessee, a lessor and sale and leaseback transactions. Lessees and lessors are required to disclose qualitative and quantitative information about leasing arrangements to enable a user of the financial statements to assess the amount, timing and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases. The guidance will be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years and early adoption is permitted. The Company is in the process of evaluating the impact of this standard update on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We intend to adopt the new revenue and lease standards on January 1, 2018 and January 1, 2019, respectively. We are currently assessing the potential impacts of these new standards, if any, on our consolidated statements and related disclosures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-07,&amp;#160;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;"&gt;Investments-Equity Method and Joint Ventures (Topic 323): Simplifying the Transition to the Equity Method of Accounting.&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;The update eliminates the requirement that an investor retrospectively apply equity method accounting when an investment that it had accounted for by another method initially qualifies for use of the equity method. The guidance will be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim periods within those fiscal years and early adoption is permitted. The Company does not expect the adoption of this standard to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-09,&amp;#160;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;"&gt;Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting&lt;/font&gt;. The update requires excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies to be recorded on the income statement when the awards vest or are settled. In addition, cash flows related to excess tax benefits will no longer be separately classified as a financing activity on the statement of cash flows. 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If an entity early adopts the amendments in an interim period, any adjustments should be reflected as of the beginning of the fiscal year that includes that interim period. An entity that elects early adoption must adopt all of the amendments in the same period. The amendments in this Update should be applied using a retrospective transition method to each period presented. If it is impracticable to apply the amendments retrospectively for some of the issues, the amendments for those issues would be applied prospectively as of the earliest date practicable. 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The Company is planning to early adopt this standard, but does not expect the adoption to have material effect on our financial condition or results of operations; however it may be applied in prospective acquisitions of vessels where the Company is required to evaluate whether the transaction(s) should be accounted for as acquisition(s) of asset(s) or business(es).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-04&lt;/font&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;"&gt;Intangibles - Goodwill and Other (Topic 350)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;,&lt;/font&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;which simplifies the test for goodwill impairment. 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border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;1,910,112&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; 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border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;90,000,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;75,382,001&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;754&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: middle; width: 44%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Common Shares Issued in Follow-on Offering&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;13,800,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;138&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: middle; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 44%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Increase in Authorized Shares&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;90,000,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: middle; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 44%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Balance as of December 31, 2014&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;180,000,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;89,182,001&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;892&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: middle; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 44%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Balance as of December 31, 2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;180,000,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;89,182,001&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;892&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: middle; width: 44%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Equity incentive plan issuance&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;137,665&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;1&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: middle; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 44%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Common Shares Issued&amp;#160;in Follow-on Offering&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;12,650,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;127&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: middle; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 44%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Balance as of December 31, 2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;180,000,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;101,969,666&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;1,020&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; 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width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;366,945&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;321,635&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; width: 56%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Total Assets&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;374,854&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;336,200&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; width: 56%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Current liabilities&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;4,089&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;7,735&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; width: 56%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Noncurrent liabilities&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;136,568&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;47,608&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 56%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Total Shareholders&amp;#8217; Equity&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;234,196&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;280,857&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 56%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Total liabilities and equity&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;374,854&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;336,200&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</nat:EquityMethodInvestmentSummarizedBalanceSheetInformationTextBlock>
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  <nat:EquityMethodInvestmentSummarizedStatementOfOperationsTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20161231">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;Summarized Statement of Operations information for NAO is as follows:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; width: 90%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; margin-left: 9pt; width: 54%; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="10" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;Years ended December 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 54%;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;All figures in USD &amp;#8216;000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;2014&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; width: 54%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Operating Revenues&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;17,697&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;36,372&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;52,789&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 54%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Net Operating (Loss) Income&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;(28,543&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;(8,372&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;11,262&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 54%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Net (Loss) Income&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;(32,151&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;(10,844&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;6,931&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</nat:EquityMethodInvestmentSummarizedStatementOfOperationsTextBlock>
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  <nat:VesselsNetTableTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20161231">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;Vessels, net, consist of the carrying value of&amp;#160;29 vessels and 24 vessels for the year ended December 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015, respectively. Vessels, net include drydocking costs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; text-align: justify; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;All Figures in USD &amp;#8216;000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; width: 76%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Vessels&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;1,700,040&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;1,530,245&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 76%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Drydocking&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;99,153&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;82,695&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 76%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Total&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;1,799,193&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;1,612,940&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 76%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Less Accumulated Depreciation&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;(741,144&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;(650,255&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 76%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Vessels, net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;1,058,049&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;962,685&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</nat:VesselsNetTableTextBlock>
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  <nat:VesselsUnderOperations contextRef="c20161231" unitRef="U004" decimals="INF">29</nat:VesselsUnderOperations>
  <!--Vessels under operations-->
  <nat:VesselsUnderOperations contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U004" decimals="INF">24</nat:VesselsUnderOperations>
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  <nat:VesselsGross contextRef="c20161231" unitRef="U002" decimals="-3">1799193000</nat:VesselsGross>
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  <nat:VesselsGross contextRef="c20161231_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_DrydockingMember" unitRef="U002" decimals="-3">99153000</nat:VesselsGross>
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  <nat:VesselsGross contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U002" decimals="-3">1612940000</nat:VesselsGross>
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  <nat:VesselsGross contextRef="c20161231_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_VesselsMember" unitRef="U002" decimals="-3">1700040000</nat:VesselsGross>
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  <nat:VesselsNet contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U002" decimals="-3">962685000</nat:VesselsNet>
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  <nat:VesselsNet contextRef="c20161231" unitRef="U002" decimals="-3">1058049000</nat:VesselsNet>
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  <nat:HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate contextRef="c20160101to20161231">P15Y</nat:HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate>
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  <!--Deferred Financing Costs [Policy Text Block]-->
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  <nat:DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20161231">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Deferred Compensation Liability: &lt;/font&gt;The Company has two individual deferred compensation agreements with the Company&amp;#8217;s CEO and CFO &amp;amp; EVP. The deferred compensation&amp;#160;liability of the CFO is&amp;#160;denominated in Norwegian currency. The liabilities are accounted for on an accrual basis using actuarial calculations. Any currency translation adjustments as well as actuarial gains and losses are recognized in general and administrative expenses as incurred.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</nat:DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock>
  <!--Defined Benefit Plan [Policy Text Block]-->
  <nat:DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20161231">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Defined Benefit Plan: &lt;/font&gt;The employees of Scandic and NATC have defined benefit pension plans. The Company accrues the costs and related obligations associated with its defined benefit pension plans based on actuarial computations using the projected benefits obligation method and management&amp;#8217;s best estimates of expected plan investment performance, salary escalation, and other relevant factors. For the purpose of calculating the expected return on plan assets, those assets are valued at fair value. The underfunded status of the defined benefit pension plans are recognized as deferred compensation liability in the Balance Sheets. The Company recognizes as a component of other comprehensive loss, the gains or losses that arise during a period but that are not recognized as part of net periodic benefit costs. As of December 31, 2016 and 2015, the net liability was $0.1 million and $0.2 million, respectively.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</nat:DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock>
  <!--Geographical Reporting [Policy Text Block]-->
  <nat:GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20161231">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Geographical Segment:&lt;/font&gt; The Company does not provide a geographical analysis because the Company&amp;#8217;s business is global in nature and the location of its vessels continually changes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</nat:GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock>
  <!--Drydocking [Policy Text Block]-->
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  <!--Deadweight tonnage-Nordic Aurora [Member]-->
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  <!--Deadweight tonnage-Nordic Skier [Member]-->
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  <!--Deadweight tonnage-Nordic Moon [Member]-->
  <nat:DeadweightTonnage contextRef="c20160101to20161231_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_NordicMoonMember" unitRef="U006" decimals="0">160305</nat:DeadweightTonnage>
  <!--Deadweight tonnage-Nordic Pollux [Member]-->
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  <!--Total number of vessels-->
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  <!--Number of vessels build in Korea-->
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  <nat:StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20161231">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"&gt;Including four newbuildings, the Company&amp;#8217;s current fleet consists of 33 Suezmax crude oil tankers of which 31 were built, or are under construction, in Korea. The Company has entered into preliminary contracts for the construction of three Suezmax vessels expected to be delivered in the second half of 2018.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; border-collapse: collapse; width: 60%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Vessel&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Built&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Deadweight&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Tons&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Delivered to NAT&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Harrier&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;1997&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;151,459&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;1997&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Hawk&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;1997&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;151,475&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;1997&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Hunter&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;1997&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;151,401&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;1997&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Voyager&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;1997&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;149,591&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2004&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Fighter&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;1998&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;153,328&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2005&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Freedom&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2005&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;159,331&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2005&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Discovery&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;1998&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;153,328&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2005&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Saturn&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;1998&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;157,331&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2005&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Jupiter&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;1998&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;157,411&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2006&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Moon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2002&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;160,305&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2006&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Apollo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2003&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;159,998&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2006&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Cosmos&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2003&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;159,999&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2006&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Sprite&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;1999&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;147,188&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2009&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Grace&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2002&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;149,921&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2009&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Mistral&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2002&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;164,236&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2009&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Passat&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2002&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;164,274&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2010&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Vega&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2010&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;163,940&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2010&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Breeze&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;158,597&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Aurora&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;1999&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;147,262&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Zenith&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;158,645&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Sprinter&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2005&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;159,089&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2014&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Skier&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2005&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;159,089&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2014&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Light&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2010&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;158,475&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Cross&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2010&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;158,475&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Luna&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2004&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;150,037&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Castor&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2004&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;150,249&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Sirius&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;150,183&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Pollux&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2003&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;150,103&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Star&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;159,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Nordic Space(1)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2017&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;159,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2017&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Newbuilding(1)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2018&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;157,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2018(2)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Newbuilding(1)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;2018&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;157,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;"&gt;2018(2)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Newbuilding(1)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; 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  <!--Maximum percentage of Adjusted Net Operating Earnings used to distribute dividends in second quarter of 2017-Credit Facility [Member]-->
  <nat:MaximumPercentageOfAdjustedNetOperatingEarningsUsedToDistributeDividendsInSecondQuarterOf2017 contextRef="c20161231_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_LineOfCreditMember" unitRef="U005" decimals="INF">0.75</nat:MaximumPercentageOfAdjustedNetOperatingEarningsUsedToDistributeDividendsInSecondQuarterOf2017>
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  <nat:InterestIncome contextRef="c20150101to20151231" unitRef="U002" decimals="-3">114000</nat:InterestIncome>
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  <nat:GainLossOnSaleOfInvestmentShares contextRef="c20160101to20161231" unitRef="U002" decimals="-3">0</nat:GainLossOnSaleOfInvestmentShares>
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  <nat:GainLossOnSaleOfInvestmentShares contextRef="c20140101to20141231" unitRef="U002" decimals="-3">3286000</nat:GainLossOnSaleOfInvestmentShares>
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  <nat:ScheduleOfInterestExpenseTableTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20161231">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;Interest expenses consist of interest expense on the long-term debt, the commitment fee and amortization of deferred financing costs related to the Credit Facility described in Note 10.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;All amounts in USD &amp;#8216;000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;2014&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; width: 64%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Interest Expenses, net of capitalized interest&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;8,811&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;7,590&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;8,686&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; width: 64%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Commitment Fee&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;937&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;2,025&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;2,330&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; width: 64%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Amortization of Deferred Financing Costs&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;1,382&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;1,240&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;1,228&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 64%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;Other financial costs&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;40&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 64%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Total Interest Expenses&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;11,170&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;10,855&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;"&gt;12,244&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</nat:ScheduleOfInterestExpenseTableTextBlock>
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width: 56%;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;All figures in USD &amp;#8216;000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; width: 56%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Fixture, Furniture and Equipment&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: right;"&gt;338&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;474&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; width: 56%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Long term deposit (Restricted Cash)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; 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    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_VesselsNetTableTextBlock_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_VesselsNetTableTextBlock_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_VesselsNetTableTextBlock_lbl1">Vessels, Net [Table Text Block]</link:label>
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    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_VesselsUnderOperations_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_VesselsUnderOperations_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_VesselsUnderOperations_lbl1">Vessels under operations</link:label>
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    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems_lbl1">Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</link:label>
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    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_VesselsGross_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_VesselsGross_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_VesselsGross_lbl1">Vessels Gross</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="VesselsGross" xlink:to="nat_VesselsGross_lbl1" xlink:title="label: VesselsGross to nat_VesselsGross_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_VesselsGross_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:title="nat_VesselsGross_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_VesselsGross_lbl2">Total</link:label>
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    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_VesselsNet_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_VesselsNet_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_VesselsNet_lbl1">Vessels, Net</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="VesselsNet" xlink:to="nat_VesselsNet_lbl1" xlink:title="label: VesselsNet to nat_VesselsNet_lbl1" />
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    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="VesselsNet" xlink:to="nat_VesselsNet_lbl2" xlink:title="label: VesselsNet to nat_VesselsNet_lbl2" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_VesselsNet_lbl3" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:title="nat_VesselsNet_lbl3" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_VesselsNet_lbl3">Vessels, Net</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="VesselsNet" xlink:to="nat_VesselsNet_lbl3" xlink:title="label: VesselsNet to nat_VesselsNet_lbl3" />
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    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="VesselsMember" xlink:to="nat_VesselsMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: VesselsMember to nat_VesselsMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_VesselsMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_VesselsMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_VesselsMember_lbl1">Vessels [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="VesselsMember" xlink:to="nat_VesselsMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: VesselsMember to nat_VesselsMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_DrydockingMember" xlink:label="DrydockingMember" xlink:title="DrydockingMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DrydockingMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_DrydockingMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DrydockingMember_lbl">Tabular disclosure of capitalized drydocking costs related to the periodic planned maintenance of vessels.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DrydockingMember" xlink:to="nat_DrydockingMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: DrydockingMember to nat_DrydockingMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DrydockingMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_DrydockingMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DrydockingMember_lbl1">Drydocking [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DrydockingMember" xlink:to="nat_DrydockingMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: DrydockingMember to nat_DrydockingMember_lbl1" />
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    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_BasisOfAccountingAbstract_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_BasisOfAccountingAbstract_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_BasisOfAccountingAbstract_lbl1">Basis Of Accounting [Abstract]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="BasisOfAccountingAbstract" xlink:to="nat_BasisOfAccountingAbstract_lbl1" xlink:title="label: BasisOfAccountingAbstract to nat_BasisOfAccountingAbstract_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_BasisOfAccountingAbstract_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:title="nat_BasisOfAccountingAbstract_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_BasisOfAccountingAbstract_lbl2">Basis of Accounting [Abstract]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="BasisOfAccountingAbstract" xlink:to="nat_BasisOfAccountingAbstract_lbl2" xlink:title="label: BasisOfAccountingAbstract to nat_BasisOfAccountingAbstract_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate" xlink:label="HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate" xlink:title="HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate" />
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    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate" xlink:to="nat_HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate_lbl" xlink:title="label: HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate to nat_HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate_lbl1">Historical and Average Spot Market Rate</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate" xlink:to="nat_HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate_lbl1" xlink:title="label: HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate to nat_HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:title="nat_HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate_lbl2">Historical and average spot market rate</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate" xlink:to="nat_HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate_lbl2" xlink:title="label: HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate to nat_HistoricalAndAverageSpotMarketRate_lbl2" />
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    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_AmortizationPeriod_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_AmortizationPeriod_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_AmortizationPeriod_lbl">Period over which improvements are amortized.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="AmortizationPeriod" xlink:to="nat_AmortizationPeriod_lbl" xlink:title="label: AmortizationPeriod to nat_AmortizationPeriod_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_AmortizationPeriod_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_AmortizationPeriod_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_AmortizationPeriod_lbl1">Amortization period</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="AmortizationPeriod" xlink:to="nat_AmortizationPeriod_lbl1" xlink:title="label: AmortizationPeriod to nat_AmortizationPeriod_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_AmortizationPeriod_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:title="nat_AmortizationPeriod_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_AmortizationPeriod_lbl2">Improvements amortized over a period</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="AmortizationPeriod" xlink:to="nat_AmortizationPeriod_lbl2" xlink:title="label: AmortizationPeriod to nat_AmortizationPeriod_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_DrydockAbstract" xlink:label="DrydockAbstract" xlink:title="DrydockAbstract" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DrydockAbstract_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_DrydockAbstract_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DrydockAbstract_lbl1">Drydock [Abstract]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DrydockAbstract" xlink:to="nat_DrydockAbstract_lbl1" xlink:title="label: DrydockAbstract to nat_DrydockAbstract_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_PeriodWhenVesselsAreRequiredToBeDrydockedMaximum" xlink:label="PeriodWhenVesselsAreRequiredToBeDrydockedMaximum" xlink:title="PeriodWhenVesselsAreRequiredToBeDrydockedMaximum" />
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    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfCustomersAccountedForTotalRevenues_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfCustomersAccountedForTotalRevenues_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfCustomersAccountedForTotalRevenues_lbl">Refers to the number of customers accounted for total revenues during the period.</link:label>
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    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfCustomersAccountedForTotalRevenues_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfCustomersAccountedForTotalRevenues_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfCustomersAccountedForTotalRevenues_lbl1">Number Of Customers Accounted For Total Revenues</link:label>
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    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfCustomersAccountedForTotalRevenues" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfCustomersAccountedForTotalRevenues_lbl2" xlink:title="label: NumberOfCustomersAccountedForTotalRevenues to nat_NumberOfCustomersAccountedForTotalRevenues_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NumberOfCharterersAccountedForOutstandingAmount" xlink:label="NumberOfCharterersAccountedForOutstandingAmount" xlink:title="NumberOfCharterersAccountedForOutstandingAmount" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfCharterersAccountedForOutstandingAmount_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfCharterersAccountedForOutstandingAmount_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfCharterersAccountedForOutstandingAmount_lbl">Refers to the total number of charterers accounted for outstanding amount during the period.</link:label>
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    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfCharterersAccountedForOutstandingAmount_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfCharterersAccountedForOutstandingAmount_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfCharterersAccountedForOutstandingAmount_lbl1">Number Of Charterers Accounted For Outstanding Amount</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfCharterersAccountedForOutstandingAmount" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfCharterersAccountedForOutstandingAmount_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NumberOfCharterersAccountedForOutstandingAmount to nat_NumberOfCharterersAccountedForOutstandingAmount_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfCharterersAccountedForOutstandingAmount_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfCharterersAccountedForOutstandingAmount_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfCharterersAccountedForOutstandingAmount_lbl2">Number of charterers accounted for outstanding amount</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfCharterersAccountedForOutstandingAmount" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfCharterersAccountedForOutstandingAmount_lbl2" xlink:title="label: NumberOfCharterersAccountedForOutstandingAmount to nat_NumberOfCharterersAccountedForOutstandingAmount_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NumberOfIndividualDeferredCompensationAgreements" xlink:label="NumberOfIndividualDeferredCompensationAgreements" xlink:title="NumberOfIndividualDeferredCompensationAgreements" />
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    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfIndividualDeferredCompensationAgreements_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfIndividualDeferredCompensationAgreements_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfIndividualDeferredCompensationAgreements_lbl1">Number of individual deferred compensation agreements</link:label>
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    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_BallastTankMember" xlink:label="BallastTankMember" xlink:title="BallastTankMember" />
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    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_BallastTankMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_BallastTankMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_BallastTankMember_lbl1">Ballast Tank [Member]</link:label>
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    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_PrinciplesOfConsolidationAbstract_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_PrinciplesOfConsolidationAbstract_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_PrinciplesOfConsolidationAbstract_lbl1">Principles of Consolidation [Abstract]</link:label>
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    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_PrinciplesOfConsolidationTable_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_PrinciplesOfConsolidationTable_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_PrinciplesOfConsolidationTable_lbl1">Principles of Consolidation [Table]</link:label>
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    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_OriginalMaturitiesOfDepositsClassifiedAsCashAndCashEquivalents" xlink:label="OriginalMaturitiesOfDepositsClassifiedAsCashAndCashEquivalents" xlink:title="OriginalMaturitiesOfDepositsClassifiedAsCashAndCashEquivalents" />
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    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_OriginalMaturitiesOfDepositsClassifiedAsCashAndCashEquivalents_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_OriginalMaturitiesOfDepositsClassifiedAsCashAndCashEquivalents_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_OriginalMaturitiesOfDepositsClassifiedAsCashAndCashEquivalents_lbl1">Original maturities of deposits classified as cash and cash equivalents</link:label>
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    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="SegmentsAbstract" xlink:to="nat_SegmentsAbstract_lbl1" xlink:title="label: SegmentsAbstract to nat_SegmentsAbstract_lbl1" />
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    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="SegmentsAbstract" xlink:to="nat_SegmentsAbstract_lbl2" xlink:title="label: SegmentsAbstract to nat_SegmentsAbstract_lbl2" />
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    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_PeriodWhenVesselsAreRequiredToBeDrydockedMinimum_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_PeriodWhenVesselsAreRequiredToBeDrydockedMinimum_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_PeriodWhenVesselsAreRequiredToBeDrydockedMinimum_lbl">The minimum period when the vessels are expected to be drydocked for overhaul repairs and maintenance.</link:label>
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    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="PeriodWhenVesselsAreRequiredToBeDrydockedMinimum" xlink:to="nat_PeriodWhenVesselsAreRequiredToBeDrydockedMinimum_lbl1" xlink:title="label: PeriodWhenVesselsAreRequiredToBeDrydockedMinimum to nat_PeriodWhenVesselsAreRequiredToBeDrydockedMinimum_lbl1" />
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    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="PeriodWhenVesselsAreRequiredToBeDrydockedMinimum" xlink:to="nat_PeriodWhenVesselsAreRequiredToBeDrydockedMinimum_lbl2" xlink:title="label: PeriodWhenVesselsAreRequiredToBeDrydockedMinimum to nat_PeriodWhenVesselsAreRequiredToBeDrydockedMinimum_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_ImpairmentOfLongLivedAssetsAbstract" xlink:label="ImpairmentOfLongLivedAssetsAbstract" xlink:title="ImpairmentOfLongLivedAssetsAbstract" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_ImpairmentOfLongLivedAssetsAbstract_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_ImpairmentOfLongLivedAssetsAbstract_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_ImpairmentOfLongLivedAssetsAbstract_lbl1">Impairment Of Long Lived Assets [Abstract]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="ImpairmentOfLongLivedAssetsAbstract" xlink:to="nat_ImpairmentOfLongLivedAssetsAbstract_lbl1" xlink:title="label: ImpairmentOfLongLivedAssetsAbstract to nat_ImpairmentOfLongLivedAssetsAbstract_lbl1" />
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    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="ImpairmentOfLongLivedAssetsAbstract" xlink:to="nat_ImpairmentOfLongLivedAssetsAbstract_lbl2" xlink:title="label: ImpairmentOfLongLivedAssetsAbstract to nat_ImpairmentOfLongLivedAssetsAbstract_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NumberOfTypesOfVessels" xlink:label="NumberOfTypesOfVessels" xlink:title="NumberOfTypesOfVessels" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfTypesOfVessels_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfTypesOfVessels_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfTypesOfVessels_lbl">The number of different types of vessels owned and operated by the Company.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfTypesOfVessels" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfTypesOfVessels_lbl" xlink:title="label: NumberOfTypesOfVessels to nat_NumberOfTypesOfVessels_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfTypesOfVessels_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfTypesOfVessels_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfTypesOfVessels_lbl1">Number of types of vessels</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfTypesOfVessels" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfTypesOfVessels_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NumberOfTypesOfVessels to nat_NumberOfTypesOfVessels_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfTypesOfVessels_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfTypesOfVessels_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfTypesOfVessels_lbl2">Number of types of vessel</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfTypesOfVessels" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfTypesOfVessels_lbl2" xlink:title="label: NumberOfTypesOfVessels to nat_NumberOfTypesOfVessels_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries" xlink:label="NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries" xlink:title="NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries_lbl">Represents number of wholly-owned subsidiaries of the entity.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries_lbl" xlink:title="label: NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries to nat_NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries_lbl1">Number of Wholly Owned Subsidiaries</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries to nat_NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries_lbl2">Number of wholly owned subsidiaries</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries_lbl2" xlink:title="label: NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries to nat_NumberOfWhollyOwnedSubsidiaries_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_CustomerThreeMember" xlink:label="CustomerThreeMember" xlink:title="CustomerThreeMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_CustomerThreeMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_CustomerThreeMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_CustomerThreeMember_lbl">Concentration related to customer three.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="CustomerThreeMember" xlink:to="nat_CustomerThreeMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: CustomerThreeMember to nat_CustomerThreeMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_CustomerThreeMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_CustomerThreeMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_CustomerThreeMember_lbl1">Customer three [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="CustomerThreeMember" xlink:to="nat_CustomerThreeMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: CustomerThreeMember to nat_CustomerThreeMember_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_CustomerThreeMember_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:title="nat_CustomerThreeMember_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_CustomerThreeMember_lbl2">Customer Three [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="CustomerThreeMember" xlink:to="nat_CustomerThreeMember_lbl2" xlink:title="label: CustomerThreeMember to nat_CustomerThreeMember_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_CustomerOneMember" xlink:label="CustomerOneMember" xlink:title="CustomerOneMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_CustomerOneMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_CustomerOneMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_CustomerOneMember_lbl">Concentration related to customer one.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="CustomerOneMember" xlink:to="nat_CustomerOneMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: CustomerOneMember to nat_CustomerOneMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_CustomerOneMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_CustomerOneMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_CustomerOneMember_lbl1">Customer one [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="CustomerOneMember" xlink:to="nat_CustomerOneMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: CustomerOneMember to nat_CustomerOneMember_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_CustomerOneMember_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:title="nat_CustomerOneMember_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_CustomerOneMember_lbl2">Customer One [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="CustomerOneMember" xlink:to="nat_CustomerOneMember_lbl2" xlink:title="label: CustomerOneMember to nat_CustomerOneMember_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_CustomerTwoMember" xlink:label="CustomerTwoMember" xlink:title="CustomerTwoMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_CustomerTwoMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_CustomerTwoMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_CustomerTwoMember_lbl">Concentration related to customer two.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="CustomerTwoMember" xlink:to="nat_CustomerTwoMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: CustomerTwoMember to nat_CustomerTwoMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_CustomerTwoMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_CustomerTwoMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_CustomerTwoMember_lbl1">Customer two [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="CustomerTwoMember" xlink:to="nat_CustomerTwoMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: CustomerTwoMember to nat_CustomerTwoMember_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_CustomerTwoMember_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:title="nat_CustomerTwoMember_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_CustomerTwoMember_lbl2">Customer Two [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="CustomerTwoMember" xlink:to="nat_CustomerTwoMember_lbl2" xlink:title="label: CustomerTwoMember to nat_CustomerTwoMember_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock" xlink:label="RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock" xlink:title="RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock_lbl">Disclosure of accounting policy for revenue and expense recognition directly related to voyage and time charter agreements.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xlink:title="label: RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock to nat_RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock_lbl1">Revenue and Expense Recognition [Policy Text Block]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xlink:title="label: RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock to nat_RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock_lbl2">Revenue and Expense Recognition</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xlink:title="label: RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock to nat_RevenueAndExpenseRecognitionPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock" xlink:label="OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock" xlink:title="OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock_lbl">Disclosure of accounting policy for other comprehensive income (loss).</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xlink:title="label: OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock to nat_OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock_lbl1">Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Policy Text Block]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xlink:title="label: OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock to nat_OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock_lbl2">Other Comprehensive (Loss) Income</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xlink:title="label: OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock to nat_OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock" xlink:label="DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock" xlink:title="DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock_lbl">Disclosure of accounting policy for deferral and amortization of deferred financing costs.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xlink:title="label: DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock to nat_DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock_lbl1">Deferred Financing Costs [Policy Text Block]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xlink:title="label: DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock to nat_DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock_lbl2">Deferred Financing Costs</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xlink:title="label: DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock to nat_DeferredFinancingCostsPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock" xlink:label="DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock" xlink:title="DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock_lbl">Disclosure of accounting policy for deferred compensation.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xlink:title="label: DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock to nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock_lbl1">Deferred Compensation Liability [Policy Text Block]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xlink:title="label: DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock to nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock_lbl2">Deferred Compensation Liability</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xlink:title="label: DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock to nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock" xlink:label="DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock" xlink:title="DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock_lbl">Disclosure of accounting policy for defined benefit plan.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xlink:title="label: DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock to nat_DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock_lbl1">Defined Benefit Plan [Policy Text Block]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xlink:title="label: DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock to nat_DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:title="nat_DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock_lbl2">Defined Benefit Plan</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xlink:title="label: DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock to nat_DefinedBenefitPlanPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock" xlink:label="GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock" xlink:title="GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock_lbl">Disclosure of accounting policy for geographical segment reporting.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xlink:title="label: GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock to nat_GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock_lbl1">Geographical Reporting [Policy Text Block]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xlink:title="label: GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock to nat_GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock_lbl2">Geographical Segment</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xlink:title="label: GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock to nat_GeographicalReportingPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_DrydockingPolicyTextBlock" xlink:label="DrydockingPolicyTextBlock" xlink:title="DrydockingPolicyTextBlock" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DrydockingPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_DrydockingPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DrydockingPolicyTextBlock_lbl">Disclosure of accounting policy for costs incurred for repairs and maintenance activities.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DrydockingPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_DrydockingPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xlink:title="label: DrydockingPolicyTextBlock to nat_DrydockingPolicyTextBlock_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DrydockingPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_DrydockingPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DrydockingPolicyTextBlock_lbl1">Drydocking [Policy Text Block]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DrydockingPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_DrydockingPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xlink:title="label: DrydockingPolicyTextBlock to nat_DrydockingPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DrydockingPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_DrydockingPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DrydockingPolicyTextBlock_lbl2">Drydocking</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DrydockingPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_DrydockingPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xlink:title="label: DrydockingPolicyTextBlock to nat_DrydockingPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock" xlink:label="VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock" xlink:title="VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock_lbl">Disclosure of accounting policy for vessel operating expense, excluding depreciation expense.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock_lbl" xlink:title="label: VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock to nat_VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock_lbl1">Vessel Operating Expenses [Policy Text Block]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" xlink:title="label: VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock to nat_VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock_lbl2">Vessel Operating Expenses</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" xlink:title="label: VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock to nat_VesselOperatingExpensesPolicyTextBlock_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NumberOfOperatingVessels" xlink:label="NumberOfOperatingVessels" xlink:title="NumberOfOperatingVessels" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfOperatingVessels_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfOperatingVessels_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfOperatingVessels_lbl">Represents number of vessels in operation in entities current fleet.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfOperatingVessels" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfOperatingVessels_lbl" xlink:title="label: NumberOfOperatingVessels to nat_NumberOfOperatingVessels_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfOperatingVessels_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfOperatingVessels_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfOperatingVessels_lbl1">Number of operating vessels</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfOperatingVessels" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfOperatingVessels_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NumberOfOperatingVessels to nat_NumberOfOperatingVessels_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfOperatingVessels_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfOperatingVessels_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfOperatingVessels_lbl2">Number of operating vessels</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfOperatingVessels" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfOperatingVessels_lbl2" xlink:title="label: NumberOfOperatingVessels to nat_NumberOfOperatingVessels_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_ShareholdersRightsPlanAbstract" xlink:label="ShareholdersRightsPlanAbstract" xlink:title="ShareholdersRightsPlanAbstract" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_ShareholdersRightsPlanAbstract_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_ShareholdersRightsPlanAbstract_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_ShareholdersRightsPlanAbstract_lbl1">Shareholders' Rights Plan [Abstract]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="ShareholdersRightsPlanAbstract" xlink:to="nat_ShareholdersRightsPlanAbstract_lbl1" xlink:title="label: ShareholdersRightsPlanAbstract to nat_ShareholdersRightsPlanAbstract_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_CommonStockRollForward" xlink:label="CommonStockRollForward" xlink:title="CommonStockRollForward" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_CommonStockRollForward_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_CommonStockRollForward_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_CommonStockRollForward_lbl">A roll forward is a reconciliation of a concept from the beginning of a period to the end of a period.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="CommonStockRollForward" xlink:to="nat_CommonStockRollForward_lbl" xlink:title="label: CommonStockRollForward to nat_CommonStockRollForward_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_CommonStockRollForward_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_CommonStockRollForward_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_CommonStockRollForward_lbl1">Common Stock [Roll Forward]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="CommonStockRollForward" xlink:to="nat_CommonStockRollForward_lbl1" xlink:title="label: CommonStockRollForward to nat_CommonStockRollForward_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_CommonStockRollForward_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_CommonStockRollForward_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_CommonStockRollForward_lbl2">Common Stock [Roll forward]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="CommonStockRollForward" xlink:to="nat_CommonStockRollForward_lbl2" xlink:title="label: CommonStockRollForward to nat_CommonStockRollForward_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_AuthorizedSharesRollForward" xlink:label="AuthorizedSharesRollForward" xlink:title="AuthorizedSharesRollForward" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_AuthorizedSharesRollForward_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_AuthorizedSharesRollForward_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_AuthorizedSharesRollForward_lbl">A roll forward is a reconciliation of a concept from the beginning of a period to the end of a period.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="AuthorizedSharesRollForward" xlink:to="nat_AuthorizedSharesRollForward_lbl" xlink:title="label: AuthorizedSharesRollForward to nat_AuthorizedSharesRollForward_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_AuthorizedSharesRollForward_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_AuthorizedSharesRollForward_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_AuthorizedSharesRollForward_lbl1">Authorized Shares [Roll Forward]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="AuthorizedSharesRollForward" xlink:to="nat_AuthorizedSharesRollForward_lbl1" xlink:title="label: AuthorizedSharesRollForward to nat_AuthorizedSharesRollForward_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_AuthorizedSharesRollForward_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_AuthorizedSharesRollForward_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_AuthorizedSharesRollForward_lbl2">Authorized Shares [Roll forward]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="AuthorizedSharesRollForward" xlink:to="nat_AuthorizedSharesRollForward_lbl2" xlink:title="label: AuthorizedSharesRollForward to nat_AuthorizedSharesRollForward_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital" xlink:label="IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital" xlink:title="IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital_lbl">The increase in maximum number of common shares permitted to be issued by an entity's charter and bylaws.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital" xlink:to="nat_IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital_lbl" xlink:title="label: IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital to nat_IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital_lbl1">Increased authorized share capital</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital" xlink:to="nat_IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital_lbl1" xlink:title="label: IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital to nat_IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital_lbl2">Increase in Authorized Shares (in shares)</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital" xlink:to="nat_IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital_lbl2" xlink:title="label: IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital to nat_IncreasedAuthorizedShareCapital_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund" xlink:label="IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund" xlink:title="IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund_lbl">Increase (decrease) of the balance of share premium fund during the period.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund" xlink:to="nat_IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund_lbl" xlink:title="label: IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund to nat_IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund_lbl1">Increase Decrease of Share Premium Fund</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund" xlink:to="nat_IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund_lbl1" xlink:title="label: IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund to nat_IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund_lbl2">Reduction of share premium</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund" xlink:to="nat_IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund_lbl2" xlink:title="label: IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund to nat_IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward" xlink:label="IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward" xlink:title="IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward_lbl">A roll forward is a reconciliation of a concept from the beginning of a period to the end of a period.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward" xlink:to="nat_IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward_lbl" xlink:title="label: IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward to nat_IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward_lbl1">Issued and Outstanding Shares [Roll Forward]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward" xlink:to="nat_IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward_lbl1" xlink:title="label: IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward to nat_IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward_lbl2">Issued and Outstanding Shares [Roll forward]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward" xlink:to="nat_IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward_lbl2" xlink:title="label: IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward to nat_IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_SharePremiumFund" xlink:label="SharePremiumFund" xlink:title="SharePremiumFund" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_SharePremiumFund_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_SharePremiumFund_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_SharePremiumFund_lbl">Amount included in additional paid in capital, which cannot be distributed without certain legal procedures designed to protect the creditors of the Company.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="SharePremiumFund" xlink:to="nat_SharePremiumFund_lbl" xlink:title="label: SharePremiumFund to nat_SharePremiumFund_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_SharePremiumFund_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_SharePremiumFund_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_SharePremiumFund_lbl1">Share Premium Fund</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="SharePremiumFund" xlink:to="nat_SharePremiumFund_lbl1" xlink:title="label: SharePremiumFund to nat_SharePremiumFund_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_SharePremiumFund_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:title="nat_SharePremiumFund_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_SharePremiumFund_lbl2">Share premium fund</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="SharePremiumFund" xlink:to="nat_SharePremiumFund_lbl2" xlink:title="label: SharePremiumFund to nat_SharePremiumFund_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_ContributedSurplusAccountAbstract" xlink:label="ContributedSurplusAccountAbstract" xlink:title="ContributedSurplusAccountAbstract" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_ContributedSurplusAccountAbstract_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_ContributedSurplusAccountAbstract_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_ContributedSurplusAccountAbstract_lbl1">Contributed Surplus Account [Abstract]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="ContributedSurplusAccountAbstract" xlink:to="nat_ContributedSurplusAccountAbstract_lbl1" xlink:title="label: ContributedSurplusAccountAbstract to nat_ContributedSurplusAccountAbstract_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership" xlink:label="PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership" xlink:title="PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership_lbl">The percentage of common share ownership by any person that are subject to the entity's redemption of preferred share purchase rights.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership" xlink:to="nat_PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership_lbl" xlink:title="label: PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership to nat_PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership_lbl1">Percentage of common share ownership</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership" xlink:to="nat_PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership_lbl1" xlink:title="label: PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership to nat_PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership_lbl2">Percentage of common share ownership</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership" xlink:to="nat_PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership_lbl2" xlink:title="label: PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership to nat_PercentageOfCommonShareOwnership_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_PreferredSharePurchaseRight" xlink:label="PreferredSharePurchaseRight" xlink:title="PreferredSharePurchaseRight" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_PreferredSharePurchaseRight_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_PreferredSharePurchaseRight_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_PreferredSharePurchaseRight_lbl">Description of preferred share purchase right to acquire shares of preferred stock.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="PreferredSharePurchaseRight" xlink:to="nat_PreferredSharePurchaseRight_lbl" xlink:title="label: PreferredSharePurchaseRight to nat_PreferredSharePurchaseRight_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_PreferredSharePurchaseRight_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_PreferredSharePurchaseRight_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_PreferredSharePurchaseRight_lbl1">Preferred share purchase right</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="PreferredSharePurchaseRight" xlink:to="nat_PreferredSharePurchaseRight_lbl1" xlink:title="label: PreferredSharePurchaseRight to nat_PreferredSharePurchaseRight_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_CommonStockAbstract" xlink:label="CommonStockAbstract" xlink:title="CommonStockAbstract" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_CommonStockAbstract_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_CommonStockAbstract_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_CommonStockAbstract_lbl1">Common Stock [Abstract]</link:label>
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    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NovemberIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember" xlink:label="NovemberIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember" xlink:title="NovemberIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NovemberIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NovemberIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NovemberIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember_lbl">November issuance related to IPO</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NovemberIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember" xlink:to="nat_NovemberIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NovemberIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember to nat_NovemberIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NovemberIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NovemberIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NovemberIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember_lbl1">November issuance related to IPO [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NovemberIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember" xlink:to="nat_NovemberIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NovemberIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember to nat_NovemberIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_AprilIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember" xlink:label="AprilIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember" xlink:title="AprilIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_AprilIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_AprilIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_AprilIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember_lbl">April issuance related to IPO</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="AprilIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember" xlink:to="nat_AprilIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: AprilIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember to nat_AprilIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_AprilIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_AprilIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_AprilIssuanceRelatedToIPOMember_lbl1">April issuance related to IPO [Member]</link:label>
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    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_ScandicMember" xlink:label="ScandicMember" xlink:title="ScandicMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_ScandicMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_ScandicMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_ScandicMember_lbl">Identification of the acquiree, Scandic American Shipping Ltd, in a material business combination.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="ScandicMember" xlink:to="nat_ScandicMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: ScandicMember to nat_ScandicMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_ScandicMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_ScandicMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_ScandicMember_lbl1">Scandic [Member]</link:label>
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    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_ScandicAmericanShippingLtdMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_ScandicAmericanShippingLtdMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_ScandicAmericanShippingLtdMember_lbl">Entity with Management Agreement with the Company.</link:label>
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    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_ScandicAmericanShippingLtdMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_ScandicAmericanShippingLtdMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_ScandicAmericanShippingLtdMember_lbl1">Scandic American Shipping Ltd [Member]</link:label>
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    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="ScandicAmericanShippingLtdMember" xlink:to="nat_ScandicAmericanShippingLtdMember_lbl2" xlink:title="label: ScandicAmericanShippingLtdMember to nat_ScandicAmericanShippingLtdMember_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_FairValueOfSharesDistributedAsDividendInKind" xlink:label="FairValueOfSharesDistributedAsDividendInKind" xlink:title="FairValueOfSharesDistributedAsDividendInKind" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_FairValueOfSharesDistributedAsDividendInKind_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_FairValueOfSharesDistributedAsDividendInKind_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_FairValueOfSharesDistributedAsDividendInKind_lbl">The fair value of shares distributed as dividend in kind in noncash investing or financing activities.</link:label>
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    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_FairValueOfSharesDistributedAsDividendInKind_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_FairValueOfSharesDistributedAsDividendInKind_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_FairValueOfSharesDistributedAsDividendInKind_lbl1">Fair Value of Shares Distributed as Dividend in Kind</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="FairValueOfSharesDistributedAsDividendInKind" xlink:to="nat_FairValueOfSharesDistributedAsDividendInKind_lbl1" xlink:title="label: FairValueOfSharesDistributedAsDividendInKind to nat_FairValueOfSharesDistributedAsDividendInKind_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_FairValueOfSharesDistributedAsDividendInKind_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_FairValueOfSharesDistributedAsDividendInKind_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_FairValueOfSharesDistributedAsDividendInKind_lbl2">Fair value of shares distributed as dividend in kind</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="FairValueOfSharesDistributedAsDividendInKind" xlink:to="nat_FairValueOfSharesDistributedAsDividendInKind_lbl2" xlink:title="label: FairValueOfSharesDistributedAsDividendInKind to nat_FairValueOfSharesDistributedAsDividendInKind_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_DryDockExpenditures" xlink:label="DryDockExpenditures" xlink:title="DryDockExpenditures" />
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    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DryDockExpenditures" xlink:to="nat_DryDockExpenditures_lbl" xlink:title="label: DryDockExpenditures to nat_DryDockExpenditures_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DryDockExpenditures_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_DryDockExpenditures_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DryDockExpenditures_lbl1">Dry dock Expenditures</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DryDockExpenditures" xlink:to="nat_DryDockExpenditures_lbl1" xlink:title="label: DryDockExpenditures to nat_DryDockExpenditures_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DryDockExpenditures_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_DryDockExpenditures_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DryDockExpenditures_lbl2">Drydock Expenditure</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DryDockExpenditures" xlink:to="nat_DryDockExpenditures_lbl2" xlink:title="label: DryDockExpenditures to nat_DryDockExpenditures_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_Paymentstoacquirevessel" xlink:label="Paymentstoacquirevessel" xlink:title="Paymentstoacquirevessel" />
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    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="Paymentstoacquirevessel" xlink:to="nat_Paymentstoacquirevessel_lbl" xlink:title="label: Paymentstoacquirevessel to nat_Paymentstoacquirevessel_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_Paymentstoacquirevessel_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_Paymentstoacquirevessel_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_Paymentstoacquirevessel_lbl1">PaymentsToAcquireVessel</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="Paymentstoacquirevessel" xlink:to="nat_Paymentstoacquirevessel_lbl1" xlink:title="label: Paymentstoacquirevessel to nat_Paymentstoacquirevessel_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_Paymentstoacquirevessel_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/negatedLabel" xlink:title="nat_Paymentstoacquirevessel_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_Paymentstoacquirevessel_lbl2">Investment in Vessels</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="Paymentstoacquirevessel" xlink:to="nat_Paymentstoacquirevessel_lbl2" xlink:title="label: Paymentstoacquirevessel to nat_Paymentstoacquirevessel_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NatureOfBusinessAbstract" xlink:label="NatureOfBusinessAbstract" xlink:title="NatureOfBusinessAbstract" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NatureOfBusinessAbstract_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NatureOfBusinessAbstract_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NatureOfBusinessAbstract_lbl1">NATURE OF BUSINESS [Abstract]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NatureOfBusinessAbstract" xlink:to="nat_NatureOfBusinessAbstract_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NatureOfBusinessAbstract to nat_NatureOfBusinessAbstract_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2017" xlink:label="NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2017" xlink:title="NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2017" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2017_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2017_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2017_lbl">Represents the number of new building in entities current fleet expected to be delivered in 2017.</link:label>
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    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2017_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2017_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2017_lbl1">Number Of New Building Expected To Be Delivered In 2017</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2017" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2017_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2017 to nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2017_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2017_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2017_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2017_lbl2">Number of new buildings expected to be delivered in 2017</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2017" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2017_lbl2" xlink:title="label: NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2017 to nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2017_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NumberOfVesselsUnderContractForConstruction" xlink:label="NumberOfVesselsUnderContractForConstruction" xlink:title="NumberOfVesselsUnderContractForConstruction" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfVesselsUnderContractForConstruction_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfVesselsUnderContractForConstruction_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfVesselsUnderContractForConstruction_lbl">Number of vessels under contract for construction.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfVesselsUnderContractForConstruction" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfVesselsUnderContractForConstruction_lbl" xlink:title="label: NumberOfVesselsUnderContractForConstruction to nat_NumberOfVesselsUnderContractForConstruction_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfVesselsUnderContractForConstruction_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfVesselsUnderContractForConstruction_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfVesselsUnderContractForConstruction_lbl1">Number of vessels under contract for construction</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfVesselsUnderContractForConstruction" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfVesselsUnderContractForConstruction_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NumberOfVesselsUnderContractForConstruction to nat_NumberOfVesselsUnderContractForConstruction_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018" xlink:label="NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018" xlink:title="NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018_lbl">Represents the number of new building in entities current fleet expected to be delivered in 2018.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018_lbl" xlink:title="label: NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018 to nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018_lbl1">Number of New Building expected to be delivered in 2018</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018 to nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018_lbl2">Number of new buildings expected to be delivered in 2018</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018_lbl2" xlink:title="label: NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018 to nat_NumberOfNewBuildingExpectedToBeDeliveredIn2018_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_AverageApproximateDeadweightTonsPerVesselInDeadweightTons" xlink:label="AverageApproximateDeadweightTonsPerVesselInDeadweightTons" xlink:title="AverageApproximateDeadweightTonsPerVesselInDeadweightTons" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_AverageApproximateDeadweightTonsPerVesselInDeadweightTons_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_AverageApproximateDeadweightTonsPerVesselInDeadweightTons_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_AverageApproximateDeadweightTonsPerVesselInDeadweightTons_lbl">Refers to the average approximate deadweight tons per vessel.</link:label>
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    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_AverageApproximateDeadweightTonsPerVesselInDeadweightTons_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_AverageApproximateDeadweightTonsPerVesselInDeadweightTons_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_AverageApproximateDeadweightTonsPerVesselInDeadweightTons_lbl1">Average approximate deadweight tons per vessel (in deadweight tons)</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="AverageApproximateDeadweightTonsPerVesselInDeadweightTons" xlink:to="nat_AverageApproximateDeadweightTonsPerVesselInDeadweightTons_lbl1" xlink:title="label: AverageApproximateDeadweightTonsPerVesselInDeadweightTons to nat_AverageApproximateDeadweightTonsPerVesselInDeadweightTons_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_AverageApproximateDeadweightTonsPerVesselInDeadweightTons_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:title="nat_AverageApproximateDeadweightTonsPerVesselInDeadweightTons_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_AverageApproximateDeadweightTonsPerVesselInDeadweightTons_lbl2">Average approximate deadweight tons per vessel</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="AverageApproximateDeadweightTonsPerVesselInDeadweightTons" xlink:to="nat_AverageApproximateDeadweightTonsPerVesselInDeadweightTons_lbl2" xlink:title="label: AverageApproximateDeadweightTonsPerVesselInDeadweightTons to nat_AverageApproximateDeadweightTonsPerVesselInDeadweightTons_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NumberOfVesselsInConstruction" xlink:label="NumberOfVesselsInConstruction" xlink:title="NumberOfVesselsInConstruction" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfVesselsInConstruction_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfVesselsInConstruction_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfVesselsInConstruction_lbl">Represents number of vessels in construction in entities current fleet.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfVesselsInConstruction" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfVesselsInConstruction_lbl" xlink:title="label: NumberOfVesselsInConstruction to nat_NumberOfVesselsInConstruction_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfVesselsInConstruction_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfVesselsInConstruction_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfVesselsInConstruction_lbl1">Number of Vessels in Construction</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfVesselsInConstruction" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfVesselsInConstruction_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NumberOfVesselsInConstruction to nat_NumberOfVesselsInConstruction_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfVesselsInConstruction_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfVesselsInConstruction_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfVesselsInConstruction_lbl2">Number of vessels in construction</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfVesselsInConstruction" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfVesselsInConstruction_lbl2" xlink:title="label: NumberOfVesselsInConstruction to nat_NumberOfVesselsInConstruction_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicSkierMember" xlink:label="NordicSkierMember" xlink:title="NordicSkierMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicSkierMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicSkierMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicSkierMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic skier used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicSkierMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicSkierMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicSkierMember to nat_NordicSkierMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicSkierMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicSkierMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicSkierMember_lbl1">Nordic Skier [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicSkierMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicSkierMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicSkierMember to nat_NordicSkierMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicHawkMember" xlink:label="NordicHawkMember" xlink:title="NordicHawkMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicHawkMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicHawkMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicHawkMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic hawk used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicHawkMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicHawkMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicHawkMember to nat_NordicHawkMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicHawkMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicHawkMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicHawkMember_lbl1">Nordic Hawk [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicHawkMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicHawkMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicHawkMember to nat_NordicHawkMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicMistralMember" xlink:label="NordicMistralMember" xlink:title="NordicMistralMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicMistralMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicMistralMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicMistralMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic mistral used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicMistralMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicMistralMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicMistralMember to nat_NordicMistralMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicMistralMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicMistralMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicMistralMember_lbl1">Nordic Mistral [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicMistralMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicMistralMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicMistralMember to nat_NordicMistralMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicPassatMember" xlink:label="NordicPassatMember" xlink:title="NordicPassatMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicPassatMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicPassatMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicPassatMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic passat used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicPassatMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicPassatMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicPassatMember to nat_NordicPassatMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicPassatMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicPassatMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicPassatMember_lbl1">Nordic Passat [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicPassatMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicPassatMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicPassatMember to nat_NordicPassatMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicHarrierMember" xlink:label="NordicHarrierMember" xlink:title="NordicHarrierMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicHarrierMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicHarrierMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicHarrierMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic harrier used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicHarrierMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicHarrierMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicHarrierMember to nat_NordicHarrierMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicHarrierMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicHarrierMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicHarrierMember_lbl1">Nordic Harrier [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicHarrierMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicHarrierMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicHarrierMember to nat_NordicHarrierMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicApolloMember" xlink:label="NordicApolloMember" xlink:title="NordicApolloMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicApolloMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicApolloMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicApolloMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic apollo used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicApolloMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicApolloMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicApolloMember to nat_NordicApolloMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicApolloMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicApolloMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicApolloMember_lbl1">Nordic Apollo [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicApolloMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicApolloMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicApolloMember to nat_NordicApolloMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicSpriteMember" xlink:label="NordicSpriteMember" xlink:title="NordicSpriteMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicSpriteMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicSpriteMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicSpriteMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic sprite used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicSpriteMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicSpriteMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicSpriteMember to nat_NordicSpriteMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicSpriteMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicSpriteMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicSpriteMember_lbl1">Nordic Sprite [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicSpriteMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicSpriteMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicSpriteMember to nat_NordicSpriteMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicFighterMember" xlink:label="NordicFighterMember" xlink:title="NordicFighterMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicFighterMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicFighterMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicFighterMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic fighter used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicFighterMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicFighterMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicFighterMember to nat_NordicFighterMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicFighterMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicFighterMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicFighterMember_lbl1">Nordic Fighter [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicFighterMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicFighterMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicFighterMember to nat_NordicFighterMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicZenithMember" xlink:label="NordicZenithMember" xlink:title="NordicZenithMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicZenithMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicZenithMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicZenithMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic zenith used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicZenithMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicZenithMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicZenithMember to nat_NordicZenithMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicZenithMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicZenithMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicZenithMember_lbl1">Nordic Zenith [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicZenithMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicZenithMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicZenithMember to nat_NordicZenithMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicFreedomMember" xlink:label="NordicFreedomMember" xlink:title="NordicFreedomMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicFreedomMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicFreedomMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicFreedomMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic freedom used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicFreedomMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicFreedomMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicFreedomMember to nat_NordicFreedomMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicFreedomMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicFreedomMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicFreedomMember_lbl1">Nordic Freedom [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicFreedomMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicFreedomMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicFreedomMember to nat_NordicFreedomMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicGraceMember" xlink:label="NordicGraceMember" xlink:title="NordicGraceMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicGraceMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicGraceMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicGraceMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic grace used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicGraceMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicGraceMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicGraceMember to nat_NordicGraceMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicGraceMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicGraceMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicGraceMember_lbl1">Nordic Grace [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicGraceMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicGraceMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicGraceMember to nat_NordicGraceMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicCosmosMember" xlink:label="NordicCosmosMember" xlink:title="NordicCosmosMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicCosmosMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicCosmosMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicCosmosMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic cosmos used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicCosmosMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicCosmosMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicCosmosMember to nat_NordicCosmosMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicCosmosMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicCosmosMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicCosmosMember_lbl1">Nordic Cosmos [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicCosmosMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicCosmosMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicCosmosMember to nat_NordicCosmosMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicMoonMember" xlink:label="NordicMoonMember" xlink:title="NordicMoonMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicMoonMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicMoonMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicMoonMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic moon used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicMoonMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicMoonMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicMoonMember to nat_NordicMoonMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicMoonMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicMoonMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicMoonMember_lbl1">Nordic Moon [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicMoonMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicMoonMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicMoonMember to nat_NordicMoonMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicVoyagerMember" xlink:label="NordicVoyagerMember" xlink:title="NordicVoyagerMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicVoyagerMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicVoyagerMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicVoyagerMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic voyager used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicVoyagerMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicVoyagerMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicVoyagerMember to nat_NordicVoyagerMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicVoyagerMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicVoyagerMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicVoyagerMember_lbl1">Nordic Voyager [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicVoyagerMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicVoyagerMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicVoyagerMember to nat_NordicVoyagerMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_DeadweightTonnage" xlink:label="DeadweightTonnage" xlink:title="DeadweightTonnage" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DeadweightTonnage_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_DeadweightTonnage_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DeadweightTonnage_lbl">The total sum of weights in metric tonnes that the vessel can carry on a defined loadline.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DeadweightTonnage" xlink:to="nat_DeadweightTonnage_lbl" xlink:title="label: DeadweightTonnage to nat_DeadweightTonnage_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DeadweightTonnage_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_DeadweightTonnage_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DeadweightTonnage_lbl1">Deadweight tonnage</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DeadweightTonnage" xlink:to="nat_DeadweightTonnage_lbl1" xlink:title="label: DeadweightTonnage to nat_DeadweightTonnage_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DeadweightTonnage_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_DeadweightTonnage_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DeadweightTonnage_lbl2">Deadweight tons</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DeadweightTonnage" xlink:to="nat_DeadweightTonnage_lbl2" xlink:title="label: DeadweightTonnage to nat_DeadweightTonnage_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicAuroraMember" xlink:label="NordicAuroraMember" xlink:title="NordicAuroraMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicAuroraMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicAuroraMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicAuroraMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic aurora used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicAuroraMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicAuroraMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicAuroraMember to nat_NordicAuroraMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicAuroraMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicAuroraMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicAuroraMember_lbl1">Nordic Aurora [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicAuroraMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicAuroraMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicAuroraMember to nat_NordicAuroraMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicBreezeMember" xlink:label="NordicBreezeMember" xlink:title="NordicBreezeMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicBreezeMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicBreezeMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicBreezeMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic breeze used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicBreezeMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicBreezeMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicBreezeMember to nat_NordicBreezeMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicBreezeMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicBreezeMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicBreezeMember_lbl1">Nordic Breeze [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicBreezeMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicBreezeMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicBreezeMember to nat_NordicBreezeMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_TotalNumberOfVessels" xlink:label="TotalNumberOfVessels" xlink:title="TotalNumberOfVessels" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_TotalNumberOfVessels_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_TotalNumberOfVessels_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_TotalNumberOfVessels_lbl">The total number of vessels during the period, which may include crude oil tankers and new vessels under construction to be used in the normal conduct of business and not intended for resale.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="TotalNumberOfVessels" xlink:to="nat_TotalNumberOfVessels_lbl" xlink:title="label: TotalNumberOfVessels to nat_TotalNumberOfVessels_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_TotalNumberOfVessels_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_TotalNumberOfVessels_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_TotalNumberOfVessels_lbl1">Total number of vessels</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="TotalNumberOfVessels" xlink:to="nat_TotalNumberOfVessels_lbl1" xlink:title="label: TotalNumberOfVessels to nat_TotalNumberOfVessels_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicVegaMember" xlink:label="NordicVegaMember" xlink:title="NordicVegaMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicVegaMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicVegaMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicVegaMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic vega used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicVegaMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicVegaMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicVegaMember to nat_NordicVegaMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicVegaMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicVegaMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicVegaMember_lbl1">Nordic Vega [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicVegaMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicVegaMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicVegaMember to nat_NordicVegaMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicSprinterMember" xlink:label="NordicSprinterMember" xlink:title="NordicSprinterMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicSprinterMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicSprinterMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicSprinterMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic sprinter used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicSprinterMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicSprinterMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicSprinterMember to nat_NordicSprinterMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicSprinterMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicSprinterMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicSprinterMember_lbl1">Nordic Sprinter [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicSprinterMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicSprinterMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicSprinterMember to nat_NordicSprinterMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicSaturnMember" xlink:label="NordicSaturnMember" xlink:title="NordicSaturnMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicSaturnMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicSaturnMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicSaturnMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic saturn used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicSaturnMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicSaturnMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicSaturnMember to nat_NordicSaturnMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicSaturnMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicSaturnMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicSaturnMember_lbl1">Nordic Saturn [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicSaturnMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicSaturnMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicSaturnMember to nat_NordicSaturnMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicDiscoveryMember" xlink:label="NordicDiscoveryMember" xlink:title="NordicDiscoveryMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicDiscoveryMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicDiscoveryMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicDiscoveryMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic discovery used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicDiscoveryMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicDiscoveryMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicDiscoveryMember to nat_NordicDiscoveryMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicDiscoveryMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicDiscoveryMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicDiscoveryMember_lbl1">Nordic Discovery [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicDiscoveryMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicDiscoveryMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicDiscoveryMember to nat_NordicDiscoveryMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicHunterMember" xlink:label="NordicHunterMember" xlink:title="NordicHunterMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicHunterMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicHunterMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicHunterMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic hunter used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicHunterMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicHunterMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicHunterMember to nat_NordicHunterMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicHunterMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicHunterMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicHunterMember_lbl1">Nordic Hunter [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicHunterMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicHunterMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicHunterMember to nat_NordicHunterMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicJupiterMember" xlink:label="NordicJupiterMember" xlink:title="NordicJupiterMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicJupiterMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicJupiterMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicJupiterMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic jupiter used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicJupiterMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicJupiterMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicJupiterMember to nat_NordicJupiterMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicJupiterMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicJupiterMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicJupiterMember_lbl1">Nordic Jupiter [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicJupiterMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicJupiterMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicJupiterMember to nat_NordicJupiterMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NumberOfVesselsBuildInKorea" xlink:label="NumberOfVesselsBuildInKorea" xlink:title="NumberOfVesselsBuildInKorea" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfVesselsBuildInKorea_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfVesselsBuildInKorea_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfVesselsBuildInKorea_lbl">Number of vessels build in Korea</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfVesselsBuildInKorea" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfVesselsBuildInKorea_lbl" xlink:title="label: NumberOfVesselsBuildInKorea to nat_NumberOfVesselsBuildInKorea_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NumberOfVesselsBuildInKorea_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NumberOfVesselsBuildInKorea_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NumberOfVesselsBuildInKorea_lbl1">Number of vessels build in Korea</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NumberOfVesselsBuildInKorea" xlink:to="nat_NumberOfVesselsBuildInKorea_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NumberOfVesselsBuildInKorea to nat_NumberOfVesselsBuildInKorea_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicLightMember" xlink:label="NordicLightMember" xlink:title="NordicLightMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicLightMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicLightMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicLightMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic light used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicLightMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicLightMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicLightMember to nat_NordicLightMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicLightMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicLightMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicLightMember_lbl1">Nordic Light [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicLightMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicLightMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicLightMember to nat_NordicLightMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicCrossMember" xlink:label="NordicCrossMember" xlink:title="NordicCrossMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicCrossMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicCrossMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicCrossMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic cross used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicCrossMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicCrossMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicCrossMember to nat_NordicCrossMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicCrossMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicCrossMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicCrossMember_lbl1">Nordic Cross [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicCrossMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicCrossMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicCrossMember to nat_NordicCrossMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NewbuildingoneMember" xlink:label="NewbuildingoneMember" xlink:title="NewbuildingoneMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NewbuildingoneMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NewbuildingoneMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NewbuildingoneMember_lbl">Refers to new build tanker one vessel used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NewbuildingoneMember" xlink:to="nat_NewbuildingoneMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NewbuildingoneMember to nat_NewbuildingoneMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NewbuildingoneMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NewbuildingoneMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NewbuildingoneMember_lbl1">Newbuildingone [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NewbuildingoneMember" xlink:to="nat_NewbuildingoneMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NewbuildingoneMember to nat_NewbuildingoneMember_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NewbuildingoneMember_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:title="nat_NewbuildingoneMember_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NewbuildingoneMember_lbl2">Newbuilding [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NewbuildingoneMember" xlink:to="nat_NewbuildingoneMember_lbl2" xlink:title="label: NewbuildingoneMember to nat_NewbuildingoneMember_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_Newbuild2Member" xlink:label="Newbuild2Member" xlink:title="Newbuild2Member" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_Newbuild2Member_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_Newbuild2Member_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_Newbuild2Member_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel newbuild #2 used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="Newbuild2Member" xlink:to="nat_Newbuild2Member_lbl" xlink:title="label: Newbuild2Member to nat_Newbuild2Member_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_Newbuild2Member_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_Newbuild2Member_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_Newbuild2Member_lbl1">Newbuild 2 [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="Newbuild2Member" xlink:to="nat_Newbuild2Member_lbl1" xlink:title="label: Newbuild2Member to nat_Newbuild2Member_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_Newbuild2Member_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:title="nat_Newbuild2Member_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_Newbuild2Member_lbl2">Newbuilding [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="Newbuild2Member" xlink:to="nat_Newbuild2Member_lbl2" xlink:title="label: Newbuild2Member to nat_Newbuild2Member_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicLunaMember" xlink:label="NordicLunaMember" xlink:title="NordicLunaMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicLunaMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicLunaMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicLunaMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic luna used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicLunaMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicLunaMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicLunaMember to nat_NordicLunaMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicLunaMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicLunaMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicLunaMember_lbl1">Nordic Luna [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicLunaMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicLunaMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicLunaMember to nat_NordicLunaMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicCastorMember" xlink:label="NordicCastorMember" xlink:title="NordicCastorMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicCastorMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicCastorMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicCastorMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic castor used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicCastorMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicCastorMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicCastorMember to nat_NordicCastorMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicCastorMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicCastorMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicCastorMember_lbl1">Nordic Castor [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicCastorMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicCastorMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicCastorMember to nat_NordicCastorMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicSiriusMember" xlink:label="NordicSiriusMember" xlink:title="NordicSiriusMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicSiriusMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicSiriusMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicSiriusMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic sirius used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicSiriusMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicSiriusMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicSiriusMember to nat_NordicSiriusMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicSiriusMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicSiriusMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicSiriusMember_lbl1">Nordic Sirius [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicSiriusMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicSiriusMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicSiriusMember to nat_NordicSiriusMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicPolluxMember" xlink:label="NordicPolluxMember" xlink:title="NordicPolluxMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicPolluxMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicPolluxMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicPolluxMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic pollux used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicPolluxMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicPolluxMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicPolluxMember to nat_NordicPolluxMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicPolluxMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicPolluxMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicPolluxMember_lbl1">Nordic Pollux [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicPolluxMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicPolluxMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicPolluxMember to nat_NordicPolluxMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicStarMember" xlink:label="NordicStarMember" xlink:title="NordicStarMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicStarMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicStarMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicStarMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic star used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicStarMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicStarMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicStarMember to nat_NordicStarMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicStarMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicStarMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicStarMember_lbl1">Nordic Star [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicStarMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicStarMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicStarMember to nat_NordicStarMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NordicSpaceMember" xlink:label="NordicSpaceMember" xlink:title="NordicSpaceMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicSpaceMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NordicSpaceMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicSpaceMember_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel nordic space used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicSpaceMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicSpaceMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NordicSpaceMember to nat_NordicSpaceMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NordicSpaceMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NordicSpaceMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NordicSpaceMember_lbl1">Nordic Space [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NordicSpaceMember" xlink:to="nat_NordicSpaceMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NordicSpaceMember to nat_NordicSpaceMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_Newbuild3Member" xlink:label="Newbuild3Member" xlink:title="Newbuild3Member" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_Newbuild3Member_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_Newbuild3Member_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_Newbuild3Member_lbl">Refers to tanker vessel newbuild #3 used to haul crude oil.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="Newbuild3Member" xlink:to="nat_Newbuild3Member_lbl" xlink:title="label: Newbuild3Member to nat_Newbuild3Member_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_Newbuild3Member_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_Newbuild3Member_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_Newbuild3Member_lbl1">Newbuild 3 [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="Newbuild3Member" xlink:to="nat_Newbuild3Member_lbl1" xlink:title="label: Newbuild3Member to nat_Newbuild3Member_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_Newbuild3Member_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:title="nat_Newbuild3Member_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_Newbuild3Member_lbl2">Newbuilding [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="Newbuild3Member" xlink:to="nat_Newbuild3Member_lbl2" xlink:title="label: Newbuild3Member to nat_Newbuild3Member_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock" xlink:label="StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock" xlink:title="StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock_lbl">Tabular disclosure of information regarding status of each vessel during the period.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock_lbl" xlink:title="label: StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock to nat_StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock_lbl1">Status of each vessel [Table Text Block]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock_lbl1" xlink:title="label: StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock to nat_StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock_lbl2">Current fleet</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock_lbl2" xlink:title="label: StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock to nat_StatusOfEachVesselTableTextBlock_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_ReductionOfSharePremium" xlink:label="ReductionOfSharePremium" xlink:title="ReductionOfSharePremium" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_ReductionOfSharePremium_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_ReductionOfSharePremium_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_ReductionOfSharePremium_lbl">The reduction in additional paid-in capital for amounts transferred to contributed surplus.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="ReductionOfSharePremium" xlink:to="nat_ReductionOfSharePremium_lbl" xlink:title="label: ReductionOfSharePremium to nat_ReductionOfSharePremium_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_ReductionOfSharePremium_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_ReductionOfSharePremium_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_ReductionOfSharePremium_lbl1">Reduction of share premium</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="ReductionOfSharePremium" xlink:to="nat_ReductionOfSharePremium_lbl1" xlink:title="label: ReductionOfSharePremium to nat_ReductionOfSharePremium_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_ReductionOfSharePremium_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/negatedLabel" xlink:title="nat_ReductionOfSharePremium_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_ReductionOfSharePremium_lbl2">Reduction of share premium</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="ReductionOfSharePremium" xlink:to="nat_ReductionOfSharePremium_lbl2" xlink:title="label: ReductionOfSharePremium to nat_ReductionOfSharePremium_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue" xlink:label="StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue" xlink:title="StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue_lbl">The amount allocated to treasury stock. Treasury stock is common and preferred shares of an entity that were issued, repurchased by the entity, and are held in its treasury.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue" xlink:to="nat_StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue_lbl" xlink:title="label: StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue to nat_StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue_lbl1">Stock Repurchased Held in Treasury, Value</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue" xlink:to="nat_StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue_lbl1" xlink:title="label: StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue to nat_StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/negatedLabel" xlink:title="nat_StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue_lbl2">Common Shares Repurchased, Equity Incentive Plan</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue" xlink:to="nat_StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue_lbl2" xlink:title="label: StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue to nat_StockRepurchasedHeldInTreasuryValue_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_InterestExpenseTextBlock" xlink:label="InterestExpenseTextBlock" xlink:title="InterestExpenseTextBlock" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_InterestExpenseTextBlock_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_InterestExpenseTextBlock_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_InterestExpenseTextBlock_lbl">The entire disclosure for interest expense during the period.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="InterestExpenseTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_InterestExpenseTextBlock_lbl" xlink:title="label: InterestExpenseTextBlock to nat_InterestExpenseTextBlock_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_InterestExpenseTextBlock_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_InterestExpenseTextBlock_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_InterestExpenseTextBlock_lbl1">Interest Expense [Text Block]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="InterestExpenseTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_InterestExpenseTextBlock_lbl1" xlink:title="label: InterestExpenseTextBlock to nat_InterestExpenseTextBlock_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_InterestExpenseTextBlock_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:title="nat_InterestExpenseTextBlock_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_InterestExpenseTextBlock_lbl2">INTEREST EXPENSE</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="InterestExpenseTextBlock" xlink:to="nat_InterestExpenseTextBlock_lbl2" xlink:title="label: InterestExpenseTextBlock to nat_InterestExpenseTextBlock_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_ScheduleOfPostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesTable" xlink:label="ScheduleOfPostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesTable" xlink:title="ScheduleOfPostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesTable" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_ScheduleOfPostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesTable_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_ScheduleOfPostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesTable_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_ScheduleOfPostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesTable_lbl">Schedule, table or text reflecting post retirement benefits with individual employees.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="ScheduleOfPostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesTable" xlink:to="nat_ScheduleOfPostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesTable_lbl" xlink:title="label: ScheduleOfPostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesTable to nat_ScheduleOfPostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesTable_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_ScheduleOfPostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesTable_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_ScheduleOfPostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesTable_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_ScheduleOfPostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesTable_lbl1">Schedule of Post Retirement Benefits With Individual Employees [Table]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="ScheduleOfPostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesTable" xlink:to="nat_ScheduleOfPostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesTable_lbl1" xlink:title="label: ScheduleOfPostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesTable to nat_ScheduleOfPostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesTable_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_PostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesLineItems" xlink:label="PostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesLineItems" xlink:title="PostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesLineItems" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_PostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesLineItems_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_PostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesLineItems_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_PostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesLineItems_lbl">Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="PostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesLineItems" xlink:to="nat_PostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesLineItems_lbl" xlink:title="label: PostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesLineItems to nat_PostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesLineItems_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_PostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesLineItems_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_PostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesLineItems_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_PostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesLineItems_lbl1">Post Retirement Benefits With Individual Employees [Line Items]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="PostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesLineItems" xlink:to="nat_PostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesLineItems_lbl1" xlink:title="label: PostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesLineItems to nat_PostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesLineItems_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge" xlink:label="DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge" xlink:title="DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge_lbl">The required retirement age of plan participants.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge" xlink:to="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge_lbl" xlink:title="label: DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge to nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge_lbl1">Deferred Compensation Liability, Retirement age</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge" xlink:to="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge_lbl1" xlink:title="label: DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge to nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge_lbl2">Retirement age</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge" xlink:to="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge_lbl2" xlink:title="label: DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge to nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityRetirementAge_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityImputedInterest" xlink:label="DeferredCompensationLiabilityImputedInterest" xlink:title="DeferredCompensationLiabilityImputedInterest" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityImputedInterest_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityImputedInterest_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityImputedInterest_lbl">The imputed interest on benefit plan assets.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DeferredCompensationLiabilityImputedInterest" xlink:to="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityImputedInterest_lbl" xlink:title="label: DeferredCompensationLiabilityImputedInterest to nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityImputedInterest_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityImputedInterest_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityImputedInterest_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityImputedInterest_lbl1">Deferred Compensation Liability, Imputed interest</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="DeferredCompensationLiabilityImputedInterest" xlink:to="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityImputedInterest_lbl1" xlink:title="label: DeferredCompensationLiabilityImputedInterest to nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityImputedInterest_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityImputedInterest_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityImputedInterest_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_DeferredCompensationLiabilityImputedInterest_lbl2">Imputed interest rate</link:label>
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    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_AccruedVoyageExpensesCurrent" xlink:label="AccruedVoyageExpensesCurrent" xlink:title="AccruedVoyageExpensesCurrent" />
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    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_AccruedVoyageExpensesCurrent_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_AccruedVoyageExpensesCurrent_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_AccruedVoyageExpensesCurrent_lbl1">Accrued voyage expenses, current</link:label>
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    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="AccruedVoyageExpensesCurrent" xlink:to="nat_AccruedVoyageExpensesCurrent_lbl2" xlink:title="label: AccruedVoyageExpensesCurrent to nat_AccruedVoyageExpensesCurrent_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_LongTermDepositNoncurrent" xlink:label="LongTermDepositNoncurrent" xlink:title="LongTermDepositNoncurrent" />
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    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="LongTermDepositNoncurrent" xlink:to="nat_LongTermDepositNoncurrent_lbl" xlink:title="label: LongTermDepositNoncurrent to nat_LongTermDepositNoncurrent_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_LongTermDepositNoncurrent_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_LongTermDepositNoncurrent_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_LongTermDepositNoncurrent_lbl1">Long term deposit Noncurrent</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="LongTermDepositNoncurrent" xlink:to="nat_LongTermDepositNoncurrent_lbl1" xlink:title="label: LongTermDepositNoncurrent to nat_LongTermDepositNoncurrent_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_LongTermDepositNoncurrent_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:title="nat_LongTermDepositNoncurrent_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_LongTermDepositNoncurrent_lbl2">Long term deposit (Restricted Cash)</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="LongTermDepositNoncurrent" xlink:to="nat_LongTermDepositNoncurrent_lbl2" xlink:title="label: LongTermDepositNoncurrent to nat_LongTermDepositNoncurrent_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod" xlink:label="RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod" xlink:title="RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod_lbl">Amount of management fee received during the period.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod" xlink:to="nat_RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod_lbl" xlink:title="label: RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod to nat_RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod_lbl1">Related Party Transaction, Amount of management fee received during the period</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod" xlink:to="nat_RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod_lbl1" xlink:title="label: RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod to nat_RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod_lbl2">Management fee received</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod" xlink:to="nat_RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod_lbl2" xlink:title="label: RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod to nat_RelatedPartyTransactionAmountOfManagementFeeReceivedDuringThePeriod_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_WeightedAverageGrantDateFairValueAbstract" xlink:label="WeightedAverageGrantDateFairValueAbstract" xlink:title="WeightedAverageGrantDateFairValueAbstract" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_WeightedAverageGrantDateFairValueAbstract_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_WeightedAverageGrantDateFairValueAbstract_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_WeightedAverageGrantDateFairValueAbstract_lbl1">Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value [Abstract]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="WeightedAverageGrantDateFairValueAbstract" xlink:to="nat_WeightedAverageGrantDateFairValueAbstract_lbl1" xlink:title="label: WeightedAverageGrantDateFairValueAbstract to nat_WeightedAverageGrantDateFairValueAbstract_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_WeightedAverageGrantDateFairValueAbstract_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:title="nat_WeightedAverageGrantDateFairValueAbstract_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_WeightedAverageGrantDateFairValueAbstract_lbl2">Weighted-average grant-date fair value - Employees [Abstract]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="WeightedAverageGrantDateFairValueAbstract" xlink:to="nat_WeightedAverageGrantDateFairValueAbstract_lbl2" xlink:title="label: WeightedAverageGrantDateFairValueAbstract to nat_WeightedAverageGrantDateFairValueAbstract_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued" xlink:label="ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued" xlink:title="ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued_lbl">The fair value per share of shares issued during the period under a share based compensation arrangement.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued" xlink:to="nat_ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued_lbl" xlink:title="label: ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued to nat_ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued_lbl1">Share based compensation Fair value of shares issued</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued" xlink:to="nat_ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued_lbl1" xlink:title="label: ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued to nat_ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued_lbl2">Fair value of shares issued to manager (in dollars per share)</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued" xlink:to="nat_ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued_lbl2" xlink:title="label: ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued to nat_ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_EmployeesAndNonEmployeesMember" xlink:label="EmployeesAndNonEmployeesMember" xlink:title="EmployeesAndNonEmployeesMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_EmployeesAndNonEmployeesMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_EmployeesAndNonEmployeesMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_EmployeesAndNonEmployeesMember_lbl">Employee is a person employed by the Company and non-employees are persons not qualified as employee of the Company.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="EmployeesAndNonEmployeesMember" xlink:to="nat_EmployeesAndNonEmployeesMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: EmployeesAndNonEmployeesMember to nat_EmployeesAndNonEmployeesMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_EmployeesAndNonEmployeesMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_EmployeesAndNonEmployeesMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_EmployeesAndNonEmployeesMember_lbl1">Employees and Non Employees [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="EmployeesAndNonEmployeesMember" xlink:to="nat_EmployeesAndNonEmployeesMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: EmployeesAndNonEmployeesMember to nat_EmployeesAndNonEmployeesMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_NonEmployeesMember" xlink:label="NonEmployeesMember" xlink:title="NonEmployeesMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NonEmployeesMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_NonEmployeesMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NonEmployeesMember_lbl">A person not qualified as employee of the Company.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NonEmployeesMember" xlink:to="nat_NonEmployeesMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: NonEmployeesMember to nat_NonEmployeesMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NonEmployeesMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_NonEmployeesMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NonEmployeesMember_lbl1">Non Employees [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NonEmployeesMember" xlink:to="nat_NonEmployeesMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: NonEmployeesMember to nat_NonEmployeesMember_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_NonEmployeesMember_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:title="nat_NonEmployeesMember_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_NonEmployeesMember_lbl2">Non-Employees [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="NonEmployeesMember" xlink:to="nat_NonEmployeesMember_lbl2" xlink:title="label: NonEmployeesMember to nat_NonEmployeesMember_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvested" xlink:label="ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvested" xlink:title="ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvested" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvested_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvested_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvested_lbl">The number of non-vested equity-based payment instruments, excluding stock (or unit) options, at fair value of non vested shares repurchased as of the balance sheet date.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvested" xlink:to="nat_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvested_lbl" xlink:title="label: ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvested to nat_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvested_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvested_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvested_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvested_lbl1">Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award Equity Instruments Other Than Options Fair Value of Nonvested Shares Repurchased</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvested" xlink:to="nat_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvested_lbl1" xlink:title="label: ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvested to nat_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvested_lbl1" />
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    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvested" xlink:to="nat_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvested_lbl2" xlink:title="label: ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvested to nat_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvested_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_EquityIncentivePlan2011Member" xlink:label="EquityIncentivePlan2011Member" xlink:title="EquityIncentivePlan2011Member" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_EquityIncentivePlan2011Member_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_EquityIncentivePlan2011Member_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_EquityIncentivePlan2011Member_lbl">A reward system designed to improve employees performance by providing rewards that may be tied to the company's share price.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="EquityIncentivePlan2011Member" xlink:to="nat_EquityIncentivePlan2011Member_lbl" xlink:title="label: EquityIncentivePlan2011Member to nat_EquityIncentivePlan2011Member_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_EquityIncentivePlan2011Member_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_EquityIncentivePlan2011Member_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_EquityIncentivePlan2011Member_lbl1">Equity Incentive Plan 2011 [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="EquityIncentivePlan2011Member" xlink:to="nat_EquityIncentivePlan2011Member_lbl1" xlink:title="label: EquityIncentivePlan2011Member to nat_EquityIncentivePlan2011Member_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares" xlink:label="VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares" xlink:title="VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares_lbl">Number of restricted shares for which requirements have been lifted.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares" xlink:to="nat_VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares_lbl" xlink:title="label: VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares to nat_VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares_lbl1">Vesting requirement lifted for restricted shares</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares" xlink:to="nat_VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares_lbl1" xlink:title="label: VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares to nat_VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares_lbl1" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares_lbl2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/verboseLabel" xlink:title="nat_VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares_lbl2" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares_lbl2">Vesting requirement lifted for restricted shares (in shares)</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares" xlink:to="nat_VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares_lbl2" xlink:title="label: VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares to nat_VestingRequirementLiftedForRestrictedShares_lbl2" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_EmployeesMember" xlink:label="EmployeesMember" xlink:title="EmployeesMember" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_EmployeesMember_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_EmployeesMember_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_EmployeesMember_lbl">A person employed for wages or salary by the Company.</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="EmployeesMember" xlink:to="nat_EmployeesMember_lbl" xlink:title="label: EmployeesMember to nat_EmployeesMember_lbl" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_EmployeesMember_lbl1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:title="nat_EmployeesMember_lbl1" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_EmployeesMember_lbl1">Employees [Member]</link:label>
    <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="EmployeesMember" xlink:to="nat_EmployeesMember_lbl1" xlink:title="label: EmployeesMember to nat_EmployeesMember_lbl1" />
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="nat-20161231.xsd#nat_CommitmentFee" xlink:label="CommitmentFee" xlink:title="CommitmentFee" />
    <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="nat_CommitmentFee_lbl" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation" xlink:title="nat_CommitmentFee_lbl" xml:lang="en-US" id="nat_CommitmentFee_lbl">Represents the expense against earnings during the period for commitment fees.</link:label>
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<th class="th" colspan="1">12 Months Ended</th>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_OperatingCostsAndExpenses', window );">Vessel Operating Expenses</a></td>
<td class="num">(80,266)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(66,589)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(62,500)<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_GeneralAndAdministrativeExpense', window );">General and Administrative Expenses</a></td>
<td class="num">(12,296)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(9,790)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(14,863)<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_Depreciation', window );">Depreciation Expense</a></td>
<td class="num">(90,889)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(82,610)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(80,531)<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_LitigationSettlementAmount', window );">Received Settlement</a></td>
<td class="nump">5,328<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_SalesRevenueServicesNet', window );">Fees for Provided Services</a></td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">1,500<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="reu">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_OperatingIncomeLoss', window );">Net Operating Income (Loss)</a></td>
<td class="nump">53,341<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">128,093<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(4,775)<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_InterestIncome', window );">Interest Income</a></td>
<td class="nump">215<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">114<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">181<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_InterestExpense', window );">Interest Expenses</a></td>
<td class="num">(11,170)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(10,855)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(12,244)<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_GainLossOnSaleOfInvestmentShares', window );">Gain on Shares</a></td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">3,286<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_OtherNonoperatingIncomeExpense', window );">Other Financial Expenses</a></td>
<td class="num">(98)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(167)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(1,126)<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rou">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_NonoperatingIncomeExpense', window );">Total Other Expenses</a></td>
<td class="num">(11,053)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(10,908)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(9,903)<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="reu">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesExtraordinaryItemsNoncontrollingInterest', window );">Net Income (Loss) Before Income Taxes and Equity Income (Loss)</a></td>
<td class="nump">42,288<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">117,185<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(14,678)<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit', window );">Income Tax Expense</a></td>
<td class="num">(102)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(96)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(47)<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_GainLossOnInvestments', window );">Equity (Loss) Income</a></td>
<td class="num">(46,642)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(2,462)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">1,559<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rou">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss', window );">Net (Loss) Income</a></td>
<td class="num">$ (4,456)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 114,627<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">$ (13,166)<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_EarningsPerShareBasicAndDiluted', window );">Basic and Diluted Earnings (Loss) per Share (in dollars per share)</a></td>
<td class="num">$ (0.05)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 1.29<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">$ (0.15)<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_WeightedAverageNumberOfShareOutstandingBasicAndDiluted', window );">Basic and Diluted Average Number of Common Shares Outstanding (in shares)</a></td>
<td class="nump">92,531,001<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">89,182,001<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">85,401,179<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_CommonStockDividendsPerShareCashPaid', window );">Cash Dividends per Share (in dollars per share)</a></td>
<td class="nump">$ 1.37<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 1.38<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 0.61<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<div style="display: none;">
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>This item represents the net total realized gain (loss) of sale of investment shares during the period.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">nat_GainLossOnSaleOfInvestmentShares</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>nat_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:monetaryItemType</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>credit</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>duration</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Interest income derived from the cash amount on the bank accounts.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">nat_InterestIncome</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>nat_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:monetaryItemType</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>credit</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>duration</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_CargoAndFreightRevenue">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Revenue from transporting cargo and freight between locations.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 225<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.1(d))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=63488584&amp;loc=d3e20235-122688<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_CargoAndFreightRevenue</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:monetaryItemType</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>credit</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>duration</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_CommonStockDividendsPerShareCashPaid">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Aggregate dividends paid during the period for each share of common stock outstanding.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 505<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.3-04)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=27012166&amp;loc=d3e187085-122770<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_CommonStockDividendsPerShareCashPaid</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>num:perShareItemType</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>duration</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_CostOfServices">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Total costs related to services rendered by an entity during the reporting period.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 225<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.2(d))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=63488584&amp;loc=d3e20235-122688<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_CostOfServices</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:monetaryItemType</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>debit</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>duration</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_Depreciation">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The amount of expense recognized in the current period that reflects the allocation of the cost of tangible assets over the assets' useful lives. Includes production and non-production related depreciation.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 28<br> -Subparagraph (b)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3602-108585<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 360<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (a)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6391035&amp;loc=d3e2868-110229<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_Depreciation</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:monetaryItemType</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>debit</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>duration</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_EarningsPerShareBasicAndDiluted">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The amount of net income or loss for the period per each share in instances when basic and diluted earnings per share are the same amount and reported as a single line item on the face of the financial statements.  Basic earnings per share is the amount of net income or loss for the period per each share of common stock or unit outstanding during the reporting period.  Diluted earnings per share includes the amount of net income or loss for the period available to each share of common stock or common unit outstanding during the reporting period and to each share or unit that would have been outstanding assuming the issuance of common shares or units for all dilutive potential common shares or units outstanding during the reporting period.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_EarningsPerShareBasicAndDiluted</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>num:perShareItemType</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>duration</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_GainLossOnInvestments">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>This item represents the net total realized and unrealized gain (loss) included in earnings for the period as a result of selling or holding marketable securities categorized as trading, available-for-sale, or held-to-maturity, including the unrealized holding gain (loss) of held-to-maturity securities transferred to the trading security category and the cumulative unrealized gain (loss) which was included in other comprehensive income (a separate component of shareholders' equity) for available-for-sale securities transferred to trading securities during the period. Additionally, this item would include any gains (losses) realized during the period from the sale of investments accounted for under the cost method of accounting and losses recognized for other than temporary impairments (OTTI) of the subject investments.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 320<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 9<br> -Subparagraph (c)-(e)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=73527792&amp;loc=d3e27357-111563<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 28<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3602-108585<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 225<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.7(c),9(a))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=63488584&amp;loc=d3e20235-122688<br><br>Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 320<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 10<br> -Subparagraph (c)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=73527792&amp;loc=d3e27405-111563<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_GainLossOnInvestments</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:monetaryItemType</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>credit</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>duration</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The aggregate total of expenses of managing and administering the affairs of an entity, including affiliates of the reporting entity, which are not directly or indirectly associated with the manufacture, sale or creation of a product or product line.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of income (loss) from continuing operations, including income (loss) from equity method investments, before deduction of income tax expense (benefit), and income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interest.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 940<br> -SubTopic 20<br> -Section 25<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=68072869&amp;loc=d3e41242-110953<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 225<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03(10))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=63488584&amp;loc=d3e20235-122688<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 942<br> -SubTopic 225<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.9-04(15))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6879574&amp;loc=d3e536633-122882<br><br>Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 944<br> -SubTopic 225<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.7-04(8))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6879464&amp;loc=d3e573970-122913<br></p></div>
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- References</a><div><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
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<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of current income tax expense (benefit) and deferred income tax expense (benefit) pertaining to continuing operations.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 740<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 9<br> -Subparagraph (a),(b)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=65882285&amp;loc=d3e32639-109319<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 235<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.4-08.(h))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=26873400&amp;loc=d3e23780-122690<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Glossary Income Tax Expense (or Benefit)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6515339<br></p></div>
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<tr>
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<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit</td>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of the cost of borrowed funds accounted for as interest expense.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 835<br> -SubTopic 20<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6450988&amp;loc=d3e26243-108391<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 835<br> -SubTopic 30<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 3<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=64930785&amp;loc=d3e28555-108399<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 942<br> -SubTopic 225<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.9-04.9)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6879574&amp;loc=d3e536633-122882<br></p></div>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of judgment or settlement awarded to (against) the entity in respect of litigation.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The portion of profit or loss for the period, net of income taxes, which is attributable to the parent.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The aggregate amount of income or expense from ancillary business-related activities (that is to say, excluding major activities considered part of the normal operations of the business).</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 225<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.7)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=63488584&amp;loc=d3e20235-122688<br></p></div>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Generally recurring costs associated with normal operations except for the portion of these expenses which can be clearly related to production and included in cost of sales or services. Excludes Selling, General and Administrative Expense.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The net result for the period of deducting operating expenses from operating revenues.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of income (expense) related to nonoperating activities, classified as other.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 225<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.9)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=63488584&amp;loc=d3e20235-122688<br></p></div>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Aggregate revenue during the period from services rendered in the normal course of business, after deducting allowances and discounts.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 225<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.1(d))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=63488584&amp;loc=d3e20235-122688<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<th class="tl" colspan="1" rowspan="2"><div style="width: 200px;"><strong>CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE (LOSS) INCOME - USD ($)<br> $ in Thousands</strong></div></th>
<th class="th" colspan="3">12 Months Ended</th>
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<th class="th"><div>Dec. 31, 2016</div></th>
<th class="th"><div>Dec. 31, 2015</div></th>
<th class="th"><div>Dec. 31, 2014</div></th>
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<th class="tl" colspan="2" rowspan="1"><div style="width: 200px;"><strong>CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS - USD ($)<br> $ in Thousands</strong></div></th>
<th class="th"><div>Dec. 31, 2016</div></th>
<th class="th"><div>Dec. 31, 2015</div></th>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_AssetsCurrentAbstract', window );"><strong>Current Assets</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue', window );">Cash and Cash Equivalents</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">$ 82,170<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 29,889<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_AccountsAndNotesReceivableNet', window );">Accounts Receivable, Net</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">17,487<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">28,001<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_AccountsReceivableRelatedPartiesCurrent', window );">Accounts Receivable, Related Party</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">583<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">596<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PrepaidExpenseCurrent', window );">Prepaid Expenses</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">4,480<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">4,372<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_InventoryNet', window );">Inventory</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">20,886<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">14,843<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_UnbilledReceivablesCurrent', window );">Voyages in Progress</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">35,610<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">37,353<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_OtherAssetsCurrent', window );">Other Current Assets</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">2,493<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">3,125<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="reu">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_AssetsCurrent', window );">Total Current Assets</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">163,709<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">118,179<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_AssetsNoncurrentAbstract', window );"><strong>Non-Current Assets</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_VesselsNet', window );">Vessels, Net</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">1,058,049<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">962,685<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_DepositsAssets', window );">Deposits paid for Vessels</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">82,130<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">64,000<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_Goodwill', window );">Goodwill</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">18,979<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">18,979<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_InvestmentsInAffiliatesSubsidiariesAssociatesAndJointVentures', window );">Investment in Nordic American Offshore Ltd</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">16,550<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">64,877<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_OtherAssetsNoncurrent', window );">Other Non-current Assets</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">10,487<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">10,474<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rou">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_AssetsNoncurrent', window );">Total Non-current Assets</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">1,186,195<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">1,121,015<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="reu">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_Assets', window );">Total Assets</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">1,349,904<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">1,239,194<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_LiabilitiesCurrentAbstract', window );"><strong>Current Liabilities</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_AccountsPayableCurrent', window );">Accounts Payable</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">4,294<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">4,247<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_AccruedVoyageExpensesCurrent', window );">Accrued Voyage Expenses</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">9,583<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">7,035<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_AccruedLiabilitiesCurrent', window );">Accrued Liabilities</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">7,648<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">9,577<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rou">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_LiabilitiesCurrent', window );">Total Current Liabilities</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">21,525<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">20,859<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_LongTermDebtNoncurrent', window );">Long-Term Debt</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup>[1]</sup></td>
<td class="nump">442,820<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">324,568<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_DeferredCompensationLiabilityClassifiedNoncurrent', window );">Deferred Compensation Liability</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">14,510<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">13,046<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="reu">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_LiabilitiesNoncurrent', window );">Total Non-Current Liabilities</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">457,330<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">337,614<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_CommitmentsAndContingencies', window );">Commitment and Contingencies</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text"> <span></span>
</td>
<td class="text"> <span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterestAbstract', window );"><strong>Shareholders' Equity</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_CommonStockValue', window );">Common Stock, Par Value $0.01 per Share 180,000,000 authorized 101,969,666 issued and outstanding at December 31, 2016 and 89,182,001 issued and outstanding at December 31, 2015.</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">1,020<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">892<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_AdditionalPaidInCapitalCommonStock', window );">Additional Paid-in Capital</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">235,050<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">114,679<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ContributedSurplus', window );">Contributed Surplus</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">640,472<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">766,122<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_AccumulatedOtherComprehensiveIncomeLossNetOfTax', window );">Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="num">(1,037)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(972)<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_RetainedEarningsAccumulatedDeficit', window );">Accumulated Deficit</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="num">(4,456)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="reu">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_StockholdersEquity', window );">Total Shareholders' Equity</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">871,049<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">880,721<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rou">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_LiabilitiesAndStockholdersEquity', window );">Total Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">$ 1,349,904<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 1,239,194<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="vertical-align: top; width: 12pt;" valign="top">[1]</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" valign="top">Long-Term Debt consists of outstanding amounts on the Credit Facility less unamortized deferred financing cost. Outstanding amounts on the Credit Facility were $447,000 and $330,000 as of December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively. Please see note 2 to these Consolidated Financial Statements describing the effects of the accounting principle change covering the deferred financing cost.</td>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Carrying value as of the balance sheet date of obligations incurred through that date and payable related to the entity's voyage expenses. Used to reflect the current portion of the liabilities (due within one year or within the normal operating cycle if longer).</p></div>
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<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:monetaryItemType</td>
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<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>credit</td>
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<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>instant</td>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>This element represents a sub-category of additional Paid-in Capital. Additional Paid-in-Capital is normally attributable to capital contributed by shareholders in excess of the par or stated value of the common or preferred stock issued by an entity. The entity presents as contributed surplus, additional paid-in-capital that has been approved by resolution by its General Assembly to be available for use as capital contributions to its shareholders or other uses according to the corporate domicile laws.</p></div>
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<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>instant</td>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Carrying amount at the balance sheet date of vessels used in the normal conduct of business and not intended for resale, net of accumulated depreciation on vessels.</p></div>
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<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>debit</td>
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<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>instant</td>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Carrying amount as of the balance sheet date, net of allowance for doubtful accounts, of account and note receivables due from other than related parties.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.3-4)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6877327&amp;loc=d3e13212-122682<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Carrying value as of the balance sheet date of liabilities incurred (and for which invoices have typically been received) and payable to vendors for goods and services received that are used in an entity's business. Used to reflect the current portion of the liabilities (due within one year or within the normal operating cycle if longer).</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of receivables arising from transactions with related parties due within one year or the normal operating cycle, if longer.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Carrying value as of the balance sheet date of obligations incurred and payable, pertaining to costs that are statutory in nature, are incurred on contractual obligations, or accumulate over time and for which invoices have not yet been received or will not be rendered. Examples include taxes, interest, rent and utilities. Used to reflect the current portion of the liabilities (due within one year or within the normal operating cycle if longer).</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Accumulated change in equity from transactions and other events and circumstances from non-owner sources, net of tax effect, at period end. Excludes Net Income (Loss), and accumulated changes in equity from transactions resulting from investments by owners and distributions to owners. Includes foreign currency translation items, certain pension adjustments, unrealized gains and losses on certain investments in debt and equity securities, other than temporary impairment (OTTI) losses related to factors other than credit losses on available-for-sale and held-to-maturity debt securities that an entity does not intend to sell and it is not more likely than not that the entity will be required to sell before recovery of the amortized cost basis, as well as changes in the fair value of derivatives related to the effective portion of a designated cash flow hedge.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 220<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 11<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66004124&amp;loc=d3e637-108580<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 220<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 14<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66004124&amp;loc=d3e681-108580<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 220<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 14A<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66004124&amp;loc=SL7669686-108580<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Value received from shareholders in common stock-related transactions that are in excess of par value or stated value and amounts received from other stock-related transactions. Includes only common stock transactions (excludes preferred stock transactions). May be called contributed capital, capital in excess of par, capital surplus, or paid-in capital.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Sum of the carrying amounts as of the balance sheet date of all assets that are recognized. Assets are probable future economic benefits obtained or controlled by an entity as a result of past transactions or events.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Sum of the carrying amounts as of the balance sheet date of all assets that are expected to be realized in cash, sold, or consumed within one year (or the normal operating cycle, if longer). Assets are probable future economic benefits obtained or controlled by an entity as a result of past transactions or events.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Sum of the carrying amounts as of the balance sheet date of all assets that are expected to be realized in cash, sold or consumed after one year or beyond the normal operating cycle, if longer.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of currency on hand as well as demand deposits with banks or financial institutions. Includes other kinds of accounts that have the general characteristics of demand deposits. Also includes short-term, highly liquid investments that are both readily convertible to known amounts of cash and so near their maturity that they present insignificant risk of changes in value because of changes in interest rates. Excludes cash and cash equivalents within disposal group and discontinued operation.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Represents the caption on the face of the balance sheet to indicate that the entity has entered into (1) purchase or supply arrangements that will require expending a portion of its resources to meet the terms thereof, and (2) is exposed to potential losses or, less frequently, gains, arising from (a) possible claims against a company's resources due to future performance under contract terms, and (b) possible losses or likely gains from uncertainties that will ultimately be resolved when one or more future events that are deemed likely to occur do occur or fail to occur.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Aggregate par or stated value of issued nonredeemable common stock (or common stock redeemable solely at the option of the issuer). This item includes treasury stock repurchased by the entity. Note: elements for number of nonredeemable common shares, par value and other disclosure concepts are in another section within stockholders' equity.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02(29))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6877327&amp;loc=d3e13212-122682<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Aggregate carrying value as of the balance sheet date of the liabilities for all deferred compensation arrangements payable beyond one year (or the operating cycle, if longer).</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Carrying value of amounts transferred to third parties for security purposes that are expected to be returned or applied towards payment in the future.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.17)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6877327&amp;loc=d3e13212-122682<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount after accumulated impairment loss of an asset representing future economic benefits arising from other assets acquired in a business combination that are not individually identified and separately recognized.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 350<br> -SubTopic 20<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (a)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=35741047&amp;loc=d3e13816-109267<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 350<br> -SubTopic 20<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6388280&amp;loc=d3e13770-109266<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 350<br> -SubTopic 20<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 5<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=64834752&amp;loc=SL49117168-202975<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_Goodwill</td>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount after valuation and LIFO reserves of inventory expected to be sold, or consumed within one year or operating cycle, if longer.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.6(a))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6877327&amp;loc=d3e13212-122682<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 330<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 35<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=68049868&amp;loc=d3e3927-108312<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (b)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=28358313&amp;loc=d3e6676-107765<br></p></div>
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_InventoryNet</td>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Total investments in (A) an entity in which the entity has significant influence, but does not have control, (B) subsidiaries that are not required to be consolidated and are accounted for using the equity and or cost method, and (C) an entity in which the reporting entity shares control of the entity with another party or group. Includes long-term advances receivable from a party that is affiliated with the reporting entity by means of direct or indirect ownership.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.12)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6877327&amp;loc=d3e13212-122682<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of liabilities and equity items, including the portion of equity attributable to noncontrolling interests, if any.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 942<br> -SubTopic 210<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.9-03(23))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6876686&amp;loc=d3e534808-122878<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 944<br> -SubTopic 210<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.7-03(a)(25))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6879938&amp;loc=d3e572229-122910<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02(32))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6877327&amp;loc=d3e13212-122682<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Total obligations incurred as part of normal operations that are expected to be paid during the following twelve months or within one business cycle, if longer.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- References</a><div><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of asset related to consideration paid in advance for costs that provide economic benefits within a future period of one year or the normal operating cycle, if longer.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The cumulative amount of the reporting entity's undistributed earnings or deficit.</p></div>
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<th class="th"><div>Dec. 31, 2016</div></th>
<th class="th"><div>Dec. 31, 2015</div></th>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;" valign="top">Long-Term Debt consists of outstanding amounts on the Credit Facility less unamortized deferred financing cost. Outstanding amounts on the Credit Facility were $447,000 and $330,000 as of December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively. Please see note 2 to these Consolidated Financial Statements describing the effects of the accounting principle change covering the deferred financing cost.</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 138<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">113,295<span></span>
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</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossNetOfTax', window );">Other comprehensive Loss</a></td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
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<td class="num">(678)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(678)<span></span>
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<tr class="ro">
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<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueShareBasedCompensation', window );">Share based compensation</a></td>
<td class="nump">$ 0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">1,096<span></span>
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<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">1,096<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_DividendsCommonStock', window );">Dividends Paid</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="num">(66,658)<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">89,182,001<span></span>
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<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rc">
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<td class="nump">$ 892<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">114,291<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">787,732<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(838)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(13,166)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">888,911<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_IncreaseDecreaseInStockholdersEquityRollForward', window );"><strong>Increase (decrease) in Shareholders' Equity [Roll Forward]</strong></a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_AdjustmentsToAdditionalPaidInCapitalOther', window );">Accumulated coverage of loss</a></td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(13,166)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">13,166<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
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<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">114,627<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">114,627<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossNetOfTax', window );">Other comprehensive Loss</a></td>
<td class="nump">$ 0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(134)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(134)<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_StockIssuedDuringPeriodSharesShareBasedCompensationGross', window );">Share based compensation (in shares)</a></td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueShareBasedCompensation', window );">Share based compensation</a></td>
<td class="nump">$ 0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">388<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">388<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_DividendsCommonStock', window );">Dividends Paid</a></td>
<td class="nump">$ 0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(8,444)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(114,627)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(123,071)<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rc">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_SharesIssued', window );">Balance (in shares) at Dec. 31, 2015</a></td>
<td class="nump">89,182,001<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<tr class="rc">
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">114,679<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">766,122<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(972)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">880,721<span></span>
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</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_IncreaseDecreaseInStockholdersEquityRollForward', window );"><strong>Increase (decrease) in Shareholders' Equity [Roll Forward]</strong></a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(4,456)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(4,456)<span></span>
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</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_StockIssuedDuringPeriodSharesEmployeeStockOwnershipPlan', window );">Common Shares Distributed - Equity Incentive Plan (in shares)</a></td>
<td class="nump">137,665<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueEmployeeStockOwnershipPlan', window );">Common Shares Distributed - Equity Incentive Plan</a></td>
<td class="nump">$ 1<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">1<span></span>
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<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_StockIssuedDuringPeriodSharesNewIssues', window );">Common Shares Issued, net of issuance costs (in shares)</a></td>
<td class="nump">12,650,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueNewIssues', window );">Common Shares Issued, net of issuance costs</a></td>
<td class="nump">$ 127<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">119,942<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">120,069<span></span>
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<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossNetOfTax', window );">Other comprehensive Loss</a></td>
<td class="nump">$ 0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(65)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(65)<span></span>
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<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_StockIssuedDuringPeriodSharesShareBasedCompensationGross', window );">Share based compensation (in shares)</a></td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueShareBasedCompensation', window );">Share based compensation</a></td>
<td class="nump">$ 0<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">429<span></span>
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<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">429<span></span>
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<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardOptionsForfeituresInPeriod', window );">Forfeited shares - 2011 Equity Incentive Plan (in shares)</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">13,500<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_DividendsCommonStock', window );">Dividends Paid</a></td>
<td class="nump">$ 0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(125,650)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(125,650)<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rc">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_SharesIssued', window );">Balance (in shares) at Dec. 31, 2016</a></td>
<td class="nump">101,969,666<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">13,500<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rc">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_StockholdersEquity', window );">Balance at Dec. 31, 2016</a></td>
<td class="nump">$ 1,020<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 235,050<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 640,472<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">$ (1,037)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">$ (4,456)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 871,049<span></span>
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</tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The reduction in additional paid-in capital for amounts transferred to contributed surplus.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The amount allocated to treasury stock. Treasury stock is common and preferred shares of an entity that were issued, repurchased by the entity, and are held in its treasury.</p></div>
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of other increase (decrease) in additional paid in capital (APIC).</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of paid and unpaid common stock dividends declared with the form of settlement in cash, stock and payment-in-kind (PIK).</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 505<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.3-04)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=27012166&amp;loc=d3e187085-122770<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 942<br> -SubTopic 405<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6957935&amp;loc=d3e64057-112817<br></p></div>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_DividendsCommonStock</td>
</tr>
<tr>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>A roll forward is a reconciliation of a concept from the beginning of a period to the end of a period.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr>
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<tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The portion of profit or loss for the period, net of income taxes, which is attributable to the parent.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss</td>
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<tr>
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<td>us-gaap_</td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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</div></td></tr>
</table>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount after tax and reclassification adjustments of other comprehensive income (loss).</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 505<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6928386&amp;loc=d3e21463-112644<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 220<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 1A<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66004124&amp;loc=SL7669619-108580<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 220<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 1B<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66004124&amp;loc=SL7669625-108580<br><br>Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 220<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 55<br> -Paragraph 15<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66004921&amp;loc=d3e1436-108581<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr>
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<td>us-gaap_</td>
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<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The number of shares under options that were cancelled during the reporting period as a result of occurrence of a terminating event specified in contractual agreements pertaining to the stock option plan.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 718<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (c)(1)(iv)(3)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6415400&amp;loc=d3e5070-113901<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardOptionsForfeituresInPeriod</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:sharesItemType</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>duration</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Number of shares of stock issued as of the balance sheet date, including shares that had been issued and were previously outstanding but which are now held in the treasury.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 505<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6928386&amp;loc=d3e21463-112644<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_SharesIssued</td>
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<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:sharesItemType</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>instant</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Number of shares of capital stock issued (purchased by employees) in connection with an employee stock ownership plan.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 505<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6928386&amp;loc=d3e21463-112644<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02(29))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6877327&amp;loc=d3e13212-122682<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 505<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.3-04)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=27012166&amp;loc=d3e187085-122770<br><br>Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02(28))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6877327&amp;loc=d3e13212-122682<br><br>Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 718<br> -SubTopic 40<br> -Section 25<br> -Paragraph 10<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=65888597&amp;loc=d3e16649-113920<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_StockIssuedDuringPeriodSharesEmployeeStockOwnershipPlan</td>
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<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:sharesItemType</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>duration</td>
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</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Number of new stock issued during the period.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02(29))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6877327&amp;loc=d3e13212-122682<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 505<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6928386&amp;loc=d3e21463-112644<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02(28))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6877327&amp;loc=d3e13212-122682<br><br>Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 505<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.3-04)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=27012166&amp;loc=d3e187085-122770<br></p></div>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<td>us-gaap_</td>
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<tr>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Gross number of shares (or other type of equity) issued during the period as a result of any equity-based compensation plan other than an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). Shares issued could result from the issuance of restricted stock, the exercise of stock options, stock issued under employee stock purchase plans, and/or other employee benefit plans.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr>
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<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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</div></td></tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Number of shares that have been repurchased during the period and are being held in treasury.</p></div>
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<th class="th" colspan="3">12 Months Ended</th>
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<th class="th"><div>Dec. 31, 2016</div></th>
<th class="th"><div>Dec. 31, 2015</div></th>
<th class="th"><div>Dec. 31, 2014</div></th>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 114,627<span></span>
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<td class="num">$ (13,166)<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">90,889<span></span>
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<td class="nump">82,610<span></span>
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<td class="nump">80,531<span></span>
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<td class="nump">46,642<span></span>
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<td class="nump">2,462<span></span>
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<td class="num">(1,497)<span></span>
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<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
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<td class="nump">1,929<span></span>
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<td class="num">(15,382)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(11,450)<span></span>
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<td class="num">(5,346)<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_AmortizationOfFinancingCosts', window );">Amortization of Deferred Finance Costs</a></td>
<td class="nump">1,382<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">1,240<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">1,228<span></span>
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<td class="nump">1,369<span></span>
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<td class="nump">324<span></span>
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<td class="nump">782<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensation', window );">Share-based Compensation</a></td>
<td class="nump">430<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">388<span></span>
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<td class="nump">997<span></span>
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<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
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<td class="num">(3,285)<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_FairValueAdjustmentOfWarrants', window );">Adjustment of warrants to fair value</a></td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
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<td class="nump">0<span></span>
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<td class="nump">915<span></span>
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<td class="nump">33<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(61)<span></span>
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<td class="num">(37)<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_IncreaseDecreaseInAccountsReceivable', window );">Accounts Receivables</a></td>
<td class="nump">10,084<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(11,832)<span></span>
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<td class="nump">3,539<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_IncreaseDecreaseInAccountsReceivableRelatedParties', window );">Accounts Receivables, Related Party</a></td>
<td class="nump">12<span></span>
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<td class="nump">77<span></span>
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<td class="nump">0<span></span>
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<td class="num">(6,043)<span></span>
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<td class="nump">7,380<span></span>
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<td class="nump">2,438<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_IncreaseDecreaseInPrepaidDeferredExpenseAndOtherAssets', window );">Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets</a></td>
<td class="nump">415<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">262<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">300<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_IncreaseDecreaseInAccountsPayableAndAccruedLiabilities', window );">Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities</a></td>
<td class="nump">668<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(3,869)<span></span>
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<td class="nump">2,784<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_IncreaseDecreaseInUnbilledReceivables', window );">Voyages in Progress</a></td>
<td class="nump">1,743<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(7,767)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(14,633)<span></span>
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<td class="nump">127,786<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">174,391<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">57,479<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_NetCashProvidedByUsedInInvestingActivitiesContinuingOperationsAbstract', window );"><strong>Cash Flows from Investing Activities</strong></a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<tr class="re">
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<td class="num">(138,277)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(123,373)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(73,772)<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PaymentsToAcquireOtherPropertyPlantAndEquipment', window );">Investment in Other Fixed Assets</a></td>
<td class="num">(87)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(103)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(281)<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_ProceedsFromSaleOfOtherPropertyPlantAndEquipment', window );">Sale of Other Fixed Assets</a></td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">334<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
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<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PaymentsForProceedsFromPolicyLoans', window );">Deposits to and Repayment from Seller</a></td>
<td class="num">(50,130)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(64,000)<span></span>
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<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PaymentsToAcquireInterestInSubsidiariesAndAffiliates', window );">Investments in Nordic American Offshore Ltd</a></td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(9,508)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(11,403)<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_IncreaseDecreaseInRestrictedCash', window );">Long-term Deposits</a></td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(5,000)<span></span>
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<td class="nump">0<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_ProceedsFromSaleMaturityAndCollectionsOfInvestments', window );">Return of Investments</a></td>
<td class="nump">1,685<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">4,227<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">3,772<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PaymentsForProceedsFromOtherInvestingActivities', window );">Other, net</a></td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
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<tr class="reu">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_NetCashProvidedByUsedInInvestingActivitiesContinuingOperations', window );">Net Cash Used in Investing Activities</a></td>
<td class="num">(186,809)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(197,423)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(81,685)<span></span>
</td>
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<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_NetCashProvidedByUsedInFinancingActivitiesContinuingOperationsAbstract', window );"><strong>Cash Flows from Financing Activities</strong></a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_ProceedsFromIssuanceOfCommonStock', window );">Proceeds from Issuance of Common Stock</a></td>
<td class="nump">120,068<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">113,433<span></span>
</td>
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<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_ProceedsFromLinesOfCredit', window );">Proceeds from Use of Credit Facility</a></td>
<td class="nump">117,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">80,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_RepaymentsOfLinesOfCredit', window );">Repayments on Credit Facility</a></td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
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<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PaymentsOfFinancingCosts', window );">Credit Facility Costs</a></td>
<td class="num">(130)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(4,640)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PaymentsOfDividendsCommonStock', window );">Dividends Distributed</a></td>
<td class="num">(125,650)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(123,071)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(54,069)<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rou">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_NetCashProvidedByUsedInFinancingActivitiesContinuingOperations', window );">Net Cash Provided (Used In) by Financing Activities</a></td>
<td class="nump">111,288<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(47,711)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">59,364<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="reu">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_CashAndCashEquivalentsPeriodIncreaseDecrease', window );">Net Increase (Decrease) in Cash and Cash Equivalents</a></td>
<td class="nump">52,266<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(70,743)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">35,158<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue', window );">Cash and Cash Equivalents at Beginning of Period</a></td>
<td class="nump">29,889<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">100,736<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">65,675<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_EffectOfExchangeRateOnCashAndCashEquivalents', window );">Effect of Exchange Rate changes on Cash and Cash Equivalents</a></td>
<td class="nump">15<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(104)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(97)<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue', window );">Cash and Cash Equivalents at End of Period</a></td>
<td class="nump">82,170<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">29,889<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">100,736<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_InterestPaidNet', window );">Cash Paid for Interest, Net of Amounts Capitalized</a></td>
<td class="nump">9,840<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">9,374<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">9,700<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_IncomeTaxesPaidNet', window );">Cash Paid for Taxes</a></td>
<td class="nump">96<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">47<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">86<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_FairValueOfSharesDistributedAsDividendInKind', window );">Fair value of shares distributed as dividend in kind</a></td>
<td class="nump">$ 0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 12,589<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Refers to expenditure incurred in vessel dry-docking.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The fair value of shares distributed as dividend in kind in noncash investing or financing activities.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The cash outflow associated with the acquisition of vessels that are used in the normal conduct of business to produce services and not intended for resale; includes cash outflows to pay for construction of vessels.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<td>nat_</td>
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</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- References</a><div><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_AdjustmentsToReconcileNetIncomeLossToCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivitiesAbstract</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of amortization expense attributable to debt issuance costs.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 835<br> -SubTopic 30<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 3<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=64930785&amp;loc=d3e28555-108399<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 28<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3602-108585<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 225<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03(8))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=63488584&amp;loc=d3e20235-122688<br><br>Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 942<br> -SubTopic 225<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.9-04(8))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6879574&amp;loc=d3e536633-122882<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_AmortizationOfFinancingCosts</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of currency on hand as well as demand deposits with banks or financial institutions. Includes other kinds of accounts that have the general characteristics of demand deposits. Also includes short-term, highly liquid investments that are both readily convertible to known amounts of cash and so near their maturity that they present insignificant risk of changes in value because of changes in interest rates. Excludes cash and cash equivalents within disposal group and discontinued operation.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Glossary Cash<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6506951<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (a)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=28358313&amp;loc=d3e6676-107765<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 4<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3044-108585<br><br>Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Glossary Cash Equivalents<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6507016<br><br>Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.1)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6877327&amp;loc=d3e13212-122682<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:monetaryItemType</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>debit</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>instant</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_CashAndCashEquivalentsPeriodIncreaseDecrease">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents. Cash and cash equivalents are the amount of currency on hand as well as demand deposits with banks or financial institutions. Includes other kinds of accounts that have the general characteristics of demand deposits. Also includes short-term, highly liquid investments that are both readily convertible to known amounts of cash and so near their maturity that they present insignificant risk of changes in value because of changes in interest rates. Includes effect from exchange rate changes.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 24<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3521-108585<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 830<br> -SubTopic 230<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=49171198&amp;loc=d3e33268-110906<br></p></div>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_CashAndCashEquivalentsPeriodIncreaseDecrease</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>debit</td>
</tr>
<tr>
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</div></td></tr>
</table>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The compensation expense recognized during the period pertaining to the deferred compensation arrangement.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 718<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (b)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6415400&amp;loc=d3e5047-113901<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 710<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 30<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6409875&amp;loc=d3e20015-108363<br></p></div>
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_DeferredCompensationArrangementWithIndividualCompensationExpense</td>
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<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>debit</td>
</tr>
<tr>
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</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The amount of expense recognized in the current period that reflects the allocation of the cost of tangible assets over the assets' useful lives. Includes production and non-production related depreciation.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 28<br> -Subparagraph (b)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3602-108585<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 360<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (a)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6391035&amp;loc=d3e2868-110229<br></p></div>
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_Depreciation</td>
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<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
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<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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</table></div>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of increase (decrease) from the effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalent balances held in foreign currencies.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 830<br> -SubTopic 230<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=49171198&amp;loc=d3e33268-110906<br></p></div>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_EffectOfExchangeRateOnCashAndCashEquivalents</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>debit</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>duration</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of expense (income) related to adjustment to fair value of warrant liability.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 480<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 25<br> -Paragraph 13<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6939902&amp;loc=d3e20148-110875<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 28<br> -Subparagraph (b)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3602-108585<br></p></div>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_FairValueAdjustmentOfWarrants</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:monetaryItemType</td>
</tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The difference between the carrying value and the sale price of equity securities, not separately or otherwise categorized as trading or available-for-sale. This element includes investments in which the entity holds a small ownership stake (generally, less than 20% of the shares outstanding) and cannot exert significant influence.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The net realized gain (loss) on investments sold during the period, not including gains (losses) on securities separately or otherwise categorized as trading, available-for-sale, or held-to-maturity, which, for cash flow reporting, is a component of proceeds from investing activities.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>This item represents the entity's proportionate share for the period of the net income (loss) of its investee (such as unconsolidated subsidiaries and joint ventures) to which the equity method of accounting is applied. This item includes income or expense related to stock-based compensation based on the investor's grant of stock to employees of an equity method investee.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The amount of cash paid during the current period to foreign, federal, state, and local authorities as taxes on income, net of any cash received during the current period as refunds for the overpayment of taxes.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6367179&amp;loc=d3e4297-108586<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The increase (decrease) during the reporting period in the amounts payable to vendors for goods and services received and the amount of obligations and expenses incurred but not paid.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 28<br> -Subparagraph (a)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3602-108585<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The increase (decrease) during the reporting period in amount due within one year (or one business cycle) from customers for the credit sale of goods and services.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 28<br> -Subparagraph (a)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3602-108585<br></p></div>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The increase (decrease) during the reporting period in the amount due to the reporting entity for good and services provided to the following types of related parties: a parent company and its subsidiaries; subsidiaries of a common parent; an entity and trust for the benefit of employees, such as pension and profit-sharing trusts that are managed by or under the trusteeship of the entity's management, an entity and its principal owners, management, member of their immediate families, affiliates, or other parties with the ability to exert significant influence.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 28<br> -Subparagraph (a)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3602-108585<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The increase (decrease) during the reporting period in the aggregate value of all inventory held by the reporting entity, associated with underlying transactions that are classified as operating activities.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 28<br> -Subparagraph (a)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3602-108585<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of increase (decrease) in prepaid expenses, and assets classified as other.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The net cash inflow or outflow for the increase (decrease) associated with funds that are not available for withdrawal or use (such as funds held in escrow) and are associated with underlying transactions that are classified as investing activities.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The increase (decrease) during the reporting period of the amount of revenue for work performed for which billing has not occurred, net of uncollectible accounts.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 28<br> -Subparagraph (a)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3602-108585<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The amount of cash paid for interest during the period net of cash paid for interest that is capitalized.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6367179&amp;loc=d3e4297-108586<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of cash inflow (outflow) of financing activities, excluding discontinued operations. Financing activity cash flows include obtaining resources from owners and providing them with a return on, and a return of, their investment; borrowing money and repaying amounts borrowed, or settling the obligation; and obtaining and paying for other resources obtained from creditors on long-term credit.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 26<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3574-108585<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 24<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3521-108585<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- References</a><div><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of cash inflow (outflow) of investing activities, excluding discontinued operations. Investing activity cash flows include making and collecting loans and acquiring and disposing of debt or equity instruments and property, plant, and equipment and other productive assets.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- References</a><div><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of cash inflow (outflow) from operating activities, excluding discontinued operations. Operating activity cash flows include transactions, adjustments, and changes in value not defined as investing or financing activities.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 24<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3521-108585<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 28<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3602-108585<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 25<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3536-108585<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- References</a><div><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The portion of profit or loss for the period, net of income taxes, which is attributable to the parent.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Glossary Net Income<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=51831255<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 28<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3602-108585<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 260<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6371337&amp;loc=d3e3550-109257<br><br>Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 942<br> -SubTopic 225<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.9-04(22))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6879574&amp;loc=d3e536633-122882<br><br>Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 944<br> -SubTopic 225<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.7-04(18))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6879464&amp;loc=d3e573970-122913<br><br>Reference 6: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Glossary Other Comprehensive Income<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=51831270<br><br>Reference 7: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 225<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03(20))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=63488584&amp;loc=d3e20235-122688<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of income (expense) included in net income that results in no cash inflow (outflow), classified as other.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of cash (inflow) outflow from investing activities classified as other.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Glossary Investing Activities<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6516133<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 9<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3098-108585<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 8<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3095-108585<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Net amount paid or received by the entity associated with issuance or collection of loans made to policy holders, principally secured by the benefits under the policy.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of cash outflow in the form of ordinary dividends to common shareholders of the parent entity.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of cash outflow from the acquisition of or improvements to long-lived, physical assets used to produce goods and services and not intended for resale, classified as other.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The cash inflow from the additional capital contribution to the entity.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of cash inflow from contractual arrangement with the lender, including but not limited to, letter of credit, standby letter of credit and revolving credit arrangements.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The cash inflow associated with the sale, maturity and collection of all investments such as debt, security and so forth during the period.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of cash outflow for payment of an obligation from a lender, including but not limited to, letter of credit, standby letter of credit and revolving credit arrangements.</p></div>
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<td class="text"><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="DSPFListTable" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; width: 100%;"><tr><td style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; width: 25.5pt; align: right;">1.</td><td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: auto;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;">NATURE OF BUSINESS</div></td></tr></table></div><div><br /></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;">Nordic American Tankers Limited (&#8220;NAT&#8221;) was formed on June 12, 1995 under the laws of the Islands of Bermuda. The Company&#8217;s shares trade under the symbol &#8220;NAT&#8221; on the New York Stock Exchange. The Company was formed for the purpose of acquiring and chartering double-hull tankers.</div><div><br /></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;">The Company is an international tanker company that currently owns 33 Suezmax tankers, including three newbuildings expected to be delivered in 2018 and one newbuilding delivered in 2017, an increase from the three vessels owned in the autumn of 2004. The Company expects that the expansion process will continue over time and that more vessels will be added to its fleet. The 29 vessels the Company operated per December 31, 2016, average approximately 156,000 dwt each. In 2016, 2015 and 2014, the Company chartered its operating vessels primarily in the spot market.</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;">&#160;</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;">In January 2013 NAT acquired Scandic American Shipping Ltd. (&#8220;Scandic&#8221;) and NAT Chartering Ltd (formerly Orion Tankers Ltd) (&#8220;NATC&#8221;). Accordingly, these financial statements are presented on a consolidated basis for NAT and its subsidiaries (&#8220;the Company&#8221;). For the year ended December 31, 2016, and December 31, 2015, Scandic had the daily administrative and operational responsibility and NATC has provided services as the commercial manager. The Group provided assistance in the formation of Nordic American Offshore in 2013 and the initial public offering in 2014, and Scandic has provided administrative services in 2016, 2015 and 2014. For further details on the acquisition of the subsidiaries and the investment in NAO please see Note 4 and Note 5, respectively.</div><div><br /></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff;">Tanker markets are typically stronger in the fall and winter months (the fourth and first quarters of the calendar year) in anticipation of increased oil consumption in the northern hemisphere during the winter months.&#160; Seasonal variations in tanker demand normally result in seasonal fluctuations in spot market charter rates.</div><div><br /></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;">The Company&#8217;s Fleet</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;">Including four newbuildings, the Company&#8217;s current fleet consists of 33 Suezmax crude oil tankers of which 31 were built, or are under construction, in Korea. The Company has entered into preliminary contracts for the construction of three Suezmax vessels expected to be delivered in the second half of 2018.</div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; border-collapse: collapse; width: 60%;"><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><u>Vessel</u></div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-align: center;"><u>Built</u></div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-align: center;"><u>Deadweight</u></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-align: center;"><u>Tons</u></div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-align: center;"><u>Delivered to NAT</u></div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Harrier</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">1997</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">151,459</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">1997</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Hawk</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">1997</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">151,475</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">1997</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Hunter</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">1997</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">151,401</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">1997</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Voyager</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">1997</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">149,591</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2004</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Fighter</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">1998</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">153,328</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2005</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Freedom</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">2005</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">159,331</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2005</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Discovery</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">1998</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">153,328</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2005</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Saturn</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">1998</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">157,331</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2005</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Jupiter</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">1998</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">157,411</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2006</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Moon</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">2002</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">160,305</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2006</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Apollo</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">2003</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">159,998</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2006</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Cosmos</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">2003</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">159,999</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2006</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Sprite</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">1999</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">147,188</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2009</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Grace</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">2002</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">149,921</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2009</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Mistral</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">2002</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">164,236</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2009</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Passat</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">2002</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">164,274</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2010</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Vega</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">2010</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">163,940</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2010</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Breeze</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">2011</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">158,597</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2011</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Aurora</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">1999</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">147,262</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2011</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Zenith</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">2011</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">158,645</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2011</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Sprinter</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">2005</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">159,089</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2014</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Skier</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">2005</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">159,089</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2014</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Light</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">2010</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">158,475</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2015</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Cross</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">2010</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">158,475</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2015</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Luna</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">2004</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">150,037</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2016</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Castor</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">2004</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">150,249</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2016</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Sirius</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">2000</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">150,183</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2016</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Pollux</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">2003</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">150,103</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2016</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Star</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">2016</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">159,000</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2016</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Nordic Space(1)</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">2017</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">159,000</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">2017</div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">Newbuilding(1)</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;">2018</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;">157,000</div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%; background-color: #cceeff;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; 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This has also been applied retrospectively to the comparative consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2015. The effect of the application on the consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2015, is a reduction of Long-Term Debt from $330.0 million to $324.6 million and a reduction in Other Non-Current Assets from $15.9 million to $10.5 million.</font></div><div><br /></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;">Principles of Consolidation: </font>Entities in which NAT has controlling financial interest are consolidated. Subsidiaries are consolidated from the date on which control is obtained. The subsidiaries&#8217; accounting policies are in conformity with U.S. GAAP. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated upon consolidation.</div><div><br /></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;">The equity method of accounting is used for investments in companies which NAT does not control, but over which NAT has the ability to exercise significant influence. The Company holds an ownership interest of 29.1% in Nordic American Offshore Ltd. 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The effects of changes in accounting estimates are accounted for in the same period in which the estimates are changed.</div><div><br /></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;">Foreign Currency Translation: </font>The functional currency of NAT is the United States (&#8220;U.S.&#8221;) dollar as all revenues are received in U.S. dollars and the majority of the expenditures are incurred and paid in U.S. dollars. Transactions in foreign currencies during the year are translated into U.S. dollars at the rates of exchange in effect at the date of the transaction<font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;">.</font> The subsidiary of NATC, NAT Chartering AS, and the European branch of Scandic, both have Norwegian Kroners as their functional currency. 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The impact of recognizing voyage expenses ratably over the length of each voyage is not materially different on a quarterly and annual basis from a method of recognizing such costs as incurred. Probable losses on voyages are provided for in full at the time such losses can be estimated. Based on the terms of the customer agreement, a voyage is deemed to commence upon the completion of discharge of the vessel&#8217;s previous cargo and is deemed to end upon the completion of discharge of the current cargo. However, the Company does not recognize revenue if a charter has not been contractually committed to by a customer and the Company, even if the vessel has discharged its cargo and is sailing to the anticipated load port on its next voyage.</div><div><br /></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Spot Charters:</font><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;">&#160;</font>Revenue is generated from freight billing, as the Company is responsible for paying voyage expenses and the charterer is responsible for any delay at the loading or discharging ports. When the Company&#8217;s tankers are operating on spot charters the vessels are traded fully at the risk and reward of the Company. 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If balances are determined uncollectable, after all means of collections have been exhausted and the potential for recovery is considered to be remote, they are charged against the allowance for doubtful balances. As of December 31, 2016, we made an allowance of approximately $150,000 for doubtful balances. No such allowance was made as of December 31, 2015.</div><div><br /></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;">Inventories: </font>Inventories, which are comprised of bunker fuel and lubrication oil, are stated at the lower of cost or market. 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Certain subsequent expenditures for conversions and major improvements are also capitalized if it is determined that they appreciably extend the life, increase the earning capacity or improve the efficiency or safety of the vessel. Depreciation is calculated based on cost less estimated residual value, and is provided over the estimated useful life of the related assets using the straight-line method. The estimated useful life of a vessel is 25 years from the date the vessel is delivered from the shipyard. Repairs and maintenance are expensed as incurred.</div><div><br /></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;">Impairment of Vessels:</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;">The Company reviews for impairment long-lived assets held and used whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the assets may not be recoverable. In this respect, the Company reviews its assets for impairment on a vessel by vessel basis. When the estimate of undiscounted cash flows, excluding interest charges, expected to be generated by the use of the asset is less than its carrying amount, the Company evaluates the asset for impairment loss. The impairment loss is determined by the difference between the carrying amount of the asset and fair value (calculated based on estimated discounted operating cashflow). In developing estimates of future undiscounted cash flows, the Company makes assumptions and estimates about the vessels&#8217; future performance, with the significant assumptions being related to charter rates, fleet utilization, operating expenses, capital expenditures, residual value and the estimated remaining useful life of each vessel. The assumptions used to develop estimates of future undiscounted cash flows are based on historical trends as well as future expectations. 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If the Company&#8217;s estimate of undiscounted future cash flows for any vessel is lower than the vessel&#8217;s carrying value, the carrying value is written down, by recording a charge to operations, to the vessel&#8217;s fair value if the fair value is lower than the vessel&#8217;s carrying value. Although the Company believes that the assumptions used to evaluate potential impairment are reasonable and appropriate, such assumptions are subjective. 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Consistent with prior periods, drydocking costs include a variety of costs incurred while vessels are placed within drydock, including expenses related to the dock preparation and port expenses at the drydock shipyard, general shipyard expenses, expenses related to hull, external surfaces and decks, expenses related to machinery and engines of the vessel, as well as expenses related to the testing and correction of findings related to safety equipment on board. The Company includes in capitalized drydocking those costs incurred as part of the drydock to meet classification and regulatory requirements. The Company expenses costs related to routine repairs and maintenance performed during drydocking, and for annual class survey costs. Ballast tank improvements are capitalized and amortized on a straight-line basis over a period of eight years. The capitalized and unamortized drydocking costs are included in the book value of the vessels. 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<th class="tl" colspan="1" rowspan="2"><div style="width: 200px;"><strong>SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY<br></strong></div></th>
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<td class="text"><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;">Basis of Accounting: </font>These consolidated financial statements (&#8220;financial statements&#8221;) have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (&#8220;U.S. GAAP&#8221;).</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;">&#160;</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: #ffffff;">Effective January 1, 2016, the Company adopted ASU 2015-03, </font><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; background-color: #ffffff;">Interest &#8211; Imputation of Interest (Subtopic 835-30) &#8211; Simplifying the Presentation of Debt Issuance Costs, </font><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: #ffffff;">which required debt issuance costs to a recognized debt liability to be presented in the Consolidated Balance Sheets as a direct deduction from the debt liability rather than an asset. This has also been applied retrospectively to the comparative consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2015. The effect of the application on the consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2015, is a reduction of Long-Term Debt from $330.0 million to $324.6 million and a reduction in Other Non-Current Assets from $15.9 million to $10.5 million.</font></div></div><span></span>
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<td class="text"><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;">Principles of Consolidation: </font>Entities in which NAT has controlling financial interest are consolidated. Subsidiaries are consolidated from the date on which control is obtained. The subsidiaries&#8217; accounting policies are in conformity with U.S. GAAP. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated upon consolidation.</div><div><br /></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;">The equity method of accounting is used for investments in companies which NAT does not control, but over which NAT has the ability to exercise significant influence. The Company holds an ownership interest of 29.1% in Nordic American Offshore Ltd. (&#8220;NAO&#8221;).</div></div><span></span>
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<td class="text"><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;">Use of Estimates:</font> Preparation of financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. The effects of changes in accounting estimates are accounted for in the same period in which the estimates are changed.</div></div><span></span>
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<td class="text"><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;">Foreign Currency Translation: </font>The functional currency of NAT is the United States (&#8220;U.S.&#8221;) dollar as all revenues are received in U.S. dollars and the majority of the expenditures are incurred and paid in U.S. dollars. Transactions in foreign currencies during the year are translated into U.S. dollars at the rates of exchange in effect at the date of the transaction<font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;">.</font> The subsidiary of NATC, NAT Chartering AS, and the European branch of Scandic, both have Norwegian Kroners as their functional currency. All assets and liabilities of those entities are translated into U.S. dollars as of each balance sheet date. Translation gains and losses are reflected in shareholders&#8217; equity as part of accumulated other comprehensive loss.</div></div><span></span>
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<td class="text"><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;">Revenue and Expense Recognition: </font>Revenues and expenses are recognized on the accruals basis. Revenues are generated from spot charters.</div><div><br /></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;">Voyage revenues and expenses are recognized ratably over the estimated length of each voyage and, therefore, are allocated between reporting periods based on the relative transit time in each period. The impact of recognizing voyage expenses ratably over the length of each voyage is not materially different on a quarterly and annual basis from a method of recognizing such costs as incurred. Probable losses on voyages are provided for in full at the time such losses can be estimated. Based on the terms of the customer agreement, a voyage is deemed to commence upon the completion of discharge of the vessel&#8217;s previous cargo and is deemed to end upon the completion of discharge of the current cargo. However, the Company does not recognize revenue if a charter has not been contractually committed to by a customer and the Company, even if the vessel has discharged its cargo and is sailing to the anticipated load port on its next voyage.</div><div><br /></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Spot Charters:</font><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;">&#160;</font>Revenue is generated from freight billing, as the Company is responsible for paying voyage expenses and the charterer is responsible for any delay at the loading or discharging ports. When the Company&#8217;s tankers are operating on spot charters the vessels are traded fully at the risk and reward of the Company. The Company considers it appropriate to present the gross amount of earned revenue from the spot charter, showing voyage expenses related to the voyage separately in the Statements of Operations.</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;">&#160;</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"><em><strong>Time&#160;Charters: </strong></em>Under a time charter, the charterer pays for the voyage expenses, such as port, canal and fuel costs, while the shipowner pays for vessel operating expenses, including, among other costs, crew costs, provisions, deck and engine stores, lubricating oil, insurance, maintenance and repairs and costs relating to a vessel&#8217;s intermediate and special surveys.</div></div><span></span>
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<td class="text"><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;">Impairment of Vessels:</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;">The Company reviews for impairment long-lived assets held and used whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the assets may not be recoverable. In this respect, the Company reviews its assets for impairment on a vessel by vessel basis. When the estimate of undiscounted cash flows, excluding interest charges, expected to be generated by the use of the asset is less than its carrying amount, the Company evaluates the asset for impairment loss. The impairment loss is determined by the difference between the carrying amount of the asset and fair value (calculated based on estimated discounted operating cashflow). In developing estimates of future undiscounted cash flows, the Company makes assumptions and estimates about the vessels&#8217; future performance, with the significant assumptions being related to charter rates, fleet utilization, operating expenses, capital expenditures, residual value and the estimated remaining useful life of each vessel. The assumptions used to develop estimates of future undiscounted cash flows are based on historical trends as well as future expectations. The estimated net operating cash flows are determined by considering an estimated daily time charter equivalent for the remaining operating days. The Company estimates the daily time charter equivalent for the remaining operating days based on the most recent fifteen year historical average for similar vessels and utilizing available market data for spot market rates over the remaining estimated life of the vessel, assumed to be 25 years from the delivery of the vessel from the shipyard, net of brokerage commissions, expected outflows for vessels&#8217; maintenance and vessel operating expenses (including planned drydocking expenditures). The salvage value used in the impairment test is estimated to be $9.0 million per vessel. If the Company&#8217;s estimate of undiscounted future cash flows for any vessel is lower than the vessel&#8217;s carrying value, the carrying value is written down, by recording a charge to operations, to the vessel&#8217;s fair value if the fair value is lower than the vessel&#8217;s carrying value. Although the Company believes that the assumptions used to evaluate potential impairment are reasonable and appropriate, such assumptions are subjective. There can be no assurance as to how long charter rates and vessel values will remain at their currently low levels or whether they will improve by any significant degree. <font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">There was no impairment on vessels for the years ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014.</font></div></div><span></span>
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<td class="text"><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;">Recent Accounting Pronouncements:</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;">In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-09, <font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;">Revenue from Contracts with Customers</font>, which supersedes nearly all existing revenue recognition guidance under U.S. GAAP. The core principle is that a company should recognize revenue when promised goods or services are transferred to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which an entity expects to be entitled for those goods or services. This update establishes a five-step process to achieve this core principle and, in doing so, more judgment and estimates may be required within the revenue recognition process than are required under existing U.S. GAAP. The FASB recently issued ASU 2015-14, which deferred the effective date of ASU 2014-09 by one year to annual reporting periods commencing on or after December 15, 2017. The Company is in the process of considering the impact of the standard on its consolidated financial statements. For vessels operating on voyage charters, we expect to continue recognizing revenue over time. The time period over which revenue will be recognized is still being determined and, depending on the final conclusion, each period&#8217;s voyage results could differ materially from the same period&#8217;s voyage results recognized based on the present revenue recognition guidance. However, the total voyage results recognized over all periods would not change.</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;">&#160;</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02,</font>&#160;<font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;">Leases</font><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;">&#160;</font><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;">(Topic 842</font><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">). The update requires an entity to recognize right-of-use assets and lease liabilities on its balance sheet and disclose key information about leasing arrangements. It also offers specific accounting guidance for a lessee, a lessor and sale and leaseback transactions. Lessees and lessors are required to disclose qualitative and quantitative information about leasing arrangements to enable a user of the financial statements to assess the amount, timing and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases. The guidance will be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years and early adoption is permitted. The Company is in the process of evaluating the impact of this standard update on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.</font></div><div>&#160;</div><div>We intend to adopt the new revenue and lease standards on January 1, 2018 and January 1, 2019, respectively. We are currently assessing the potential impacts of these new standards, if any, on our consolidated statements and related disclosures.</div><div>&#160;</div><div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;">In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-07,&#160;<font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;">Investments-Equity Method and Joint Ventures (Topic 323): Simplifying the Transition to the Equity Method of Accounting.&#160;</font>The update eliminates the requirement that an investor retrospectively apply equity method accounting when an investment that it had accounted for by another method initially qualifies for use of the equity method. The guidance will be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim periods within those fiscal years and early adoption is permitted. The Company does not expect the adoption of this standard to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.<br /><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br /></font>In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-09,&#160;<font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;">Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting</font>. The update requires excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies to be recorded on the income statement when the awards vest or are settled. In addition, cash flows related to excess tax benefits will no longer be separately classified as a financing activity on the statement of cash flows. The standard also allows withholding up to the maximum statutory amount for taxes on employee share-based compensation, clarifies that all cash payments made on an employee&#8217;s behalf for withheld shares should be presented as a financing activity on the statement of cash flows and provides an accounting policy election to account for forfeitures as they occur. The new standard is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016, and interim periods within those annual periods,&#160;with early adoption permitted. The Company does not expect the adoption of this standard to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.</div></div><div>&#160;</div><div>In August 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-15,&#160;<font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;">Statement of cash flows (Topic 230): Classification of certain cash receipts and cash payments</font>. This ASU addresses the following eight specific cash flow issues: Debt prepayment or debt extinguishment costs; settlement of zero-coupon debt instruments or other debt instruments with coupon interest rates that are insignificant in relation to the effective interest rate of the borrowing; contingent consideration payments made after a business combination; proceeds from the settlement of insurance claims; proceeds from the settlement of corporate-owned life insurance policies (COLIs) (including bank-owned life insurance policies (BOLIs)); distributions received from equity method investees; beneficial interests in securitization transactions; and separately identifiable cash flows and application of the predominance principle. The amendments in this Update are effective for the Company for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2017, and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted, including adoption in an interim period. If an entity early adopts the amendments in an interim period, any adjustments should be reflected as of the beginning of the fiscal year that includes that interim period. An entity that elects early adoption must adopt all of the amendments in the same period. The amendments in this Update should be applied using a retrospective transition method to each period presented. If it is impracticable to apply the amendments retrospectively for some of the issues, the amendments for those issues would be applied prospectively as of the earliest date practicable. The Company is in the process of evaluating the impact of this standard update on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.</div><div>&#160;</div><div>In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-01, <font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;">Business Combinations - Clarifying the Definition of a Business</font>&#160;to clarify the definition of a business with the objective of adding guidance to assist entities with evaluating whether transactions should be accounted for as acquisitions (or disposals) of assets or businesses. The definition of a business affects many areas of accounting including acquisitions, disposals, goodwill, and consolidation. ASU 2017-01 is effective in annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017. The Company is planning to early adopt this standard, but does not expect the adoption to have material effect on our financial condition or results of operations; however it may be applied in prospective acquisitions of vessels where the Company is required to evaluate whether the transaction(s) should be accounted for as acquisition(s) of asset(s) or business(es).</div><div>&#160;</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-04</font>&#160;<font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;">Intangibles - Goodwill and Other (Topic 350)</font><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font>&#160;<font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">which simplifies the test for goodwill impairment. This Update eliminates Step 2 from the goodwill impairment test. In computing the implied fair value of goodwill under Step 2, an entity had to perform procedures to determine the fair value at the impairment testing date of its assets and liabilities (including unrecognized assets and liabilities) following the procedure that would be required in determining the fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed in a business combination. Instead an entity should perform its annual, or interim, goodwill impairment test by comparing the fair value of a reporting unit with its carrying amount. An entity should recognize an impairment charge for the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the reporting unit's fair value, however the loss recognized should not exceed the total amount of goodwill allocated to the reporting unit. The amendments in this Update are effective for the Company for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, and interim periods within those fiscal years. 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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Disclosure of accounting policy for completed business combinations (purchase method, acquisition method or combination of entities under common control). This accounting policy may include a general discussion of the purchase method or acquisition method of accounting (including for example, the treatment accorded contingent consideration, the identification of assets and liabilities, the purchase price allocation process, how the fair values of acquired assets and liabilities are determined) and the entity's specific application thereof. An entity that acquires another entity in a leveraged buyout transaction generally discloses the accounting policy followed by the acquiring entity in determining the basis used to value its interest in the acquired entity, and the rationale for that accounting policy.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Disclosure of accounting policy for cash and cash equivalents, including the policy for determining which items are treated as cash equivalents. Other information that may be disclosed includes (1) the nature of any restrictions on the entity's use of its cash and cash equivalents, (2) whether the entity's cash and cash equivalents are insured or expose the entity to credit risk, (3) the classification of any negative balance accounts (overdrafts), and (4) the carrying basis of cash equivalents (for example, at cost) and whether the carrying amount of cash equivalents approximates fair value.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Disclosure of accounting policy for credit risk.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Disclosure of accounting policy regarding (1) the principles it follows in consolidating or combining the separate financial statements, including the principles followed in determining the inclusion or exclusion of subsidiaries or other entities in the consolidated or combined financial statements and (2) its treatment of interests (for example, common stock, a partnership interest or other means of exerting influence) in other entities, for example consolidation or use of the equity or cost methods of accounting.  The accounting policy may also address the accounting treatment for intercompany accounts and transactions, noncontrolling interest, and the income statement treatment in consolidation for issuances of stock by a subsidiary.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Disclosure of accounting policy for the equity method of accounting for investments in common stock or other interests including unconsolidated subsidiaries, corporate joint ventures, noncontrolling interests in real estate ventures, limited partnerships, and limited liability companies. The accounting policy may include information such as: (1) initially recording an investment in the stock of an investee at cost; (2) adjusting the carrying amount of the investment to recognize the investor's share of the earnings or losses of the investee after the date of acquisition; and (3) adjustments to reflect the investor's share of changes in the investee's capital (dividends). This disclosure may also include a detailed description of the policy for determining the amount of equity method losses recognized after an investment has been reduced to zero as a result of previous losses, reasons for not using the equity method when the investor company owns 20 percent or more of the voting stock of the investee's company (including identification of the significant investee), reasons for using the equity method when the ownership percentage is less than 20 percent, and discussion of recognition of equity method losses when an investor's total investment in an investee includes, in addition to an investment in common stock, other investments such as preferred stock and loans to the investee. An entity also may describe how such investments are assessed for impairment.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Disclosure of accounting policy for determining the fair value of financial instruments.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Disclosure of accounting policy for (1) transactions denominated in a currency other than the reporting enterprise's functional currency, (2) translating foreign currency financial statements that are incorporated into the financial statements of the reporting enterprise by consolidation, combination, or the equity method of accounting, and (3) remeasurement of the financial statements of a foreign reporting enterprise in a hyperinflationary economy.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Disclosure of accounting policy for goodwill and intangible assets. This accounting policy also may address how an entity assesses and measures impairment of goodwill and intangible assets.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Disclosure of accounting policy for income taxes, which may include its accounting policies for recognizing and measuring deferred tax assets and liabilities and related valuation allowances, recognizing investment tax credits, operating loss carryforwards, tax credit carryforwards, and other carryforwards, methodologies for determining its effective income tax rate and the characterization of interest and penalties in the financial statements.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Disclosure of inventory accounting policy for inventory classes, including, but not limited to, basis for determining inventory amounts, methods by which amounts are added and removed from inventory classes, loss recognition on impairment of inventories, and situations in which inventories are stated above cost.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Disclosure of accounting policy pertaining to new accounting pronouncements that may impact the entity's financial reporting. Includes, but is not limited to, quantification of the expected or actual impact.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Disclosure of accounting policy for assessing and recognizing impairments of its property, plant and equipment.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Disclosure of accounting policy for long-lived, physical assets used in the normal conduct of business and not intended for resale. Includes, but is not limited to, basis of assets, depreciation and depletion methods used, including composite deprecation, estimated useful lives, capitalization policy, accounting treatment for costs incurred for repairs and maintenance, capitalized interest and the method it is calculated, disposals and impairments.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Disclosure of accounting policy for segment reporting.</p></div>
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<td class="text"><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;">Including four newbuildings, the Company&#8217;s current fleet consists of 33 Suezmax crude oil tankers of which 31 were built, or are under construction, in Korea. The Company has entered into preliminary contracts for the construction of three Suezmax vessels expected to be delivered in the second half of 2018.</div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; border-collapse: collapse; width: 60%;"><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18%;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><u>Vessel</u></div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-align: center;"><u>Built</u></div></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 14%;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-align: center;"><u>Deadweight</u></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; 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<td class="text"><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;">The carrying value and estimated fair value of the Company`s financial instruments at December 31, 2016 and 2015, are as follows:</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: justify;">&#160;</div><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; width: 100%;"><tr><td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"><div>&#160;</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; text-align: justify; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;">All figures in USD &#8216;000</div></td><td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;">&#160;</td><td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; 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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicHunterMember', window );">Nordic Hunter [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">151,401<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicVoyagerMember', window );">Nordic Voyager [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">149,591<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicFighterMember', window );">Nordic Fighter [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">153,328<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicFreedomMember', window );">Nordic Freedom [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">159,331<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicDiscoveryMember', window );">Nordic Discovery [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">153,328<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicSaturnMember', window );">Nordic Saturn [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">157,331<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicJupiterMember', window );">Nordic Jupiter [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">157,411<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicMoonMember', window );">Nordic Moon [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">160,305<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicApolloMember', window );">Nordic Apollo [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">159,998<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicCosmosMember', window );">Nordic Cosmos [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">159,999<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicSpriteMember', window );">Nordic Sprite [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">147,188<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicGraceMember', window );">Nordic Grace [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">149,921<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicMistralMember', window );">Nordic Mistral [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">164,236<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicPassatMember', window );">Nordic Passat [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">164,274<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicVegaMember', window );">Nordic Vega [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">163,940<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicBreezeMember', window );">Nordic Breeze [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">158,597<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicAuroraMember', window );">Nordic Aurora [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">147,262<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicZenithMember', window );">Nordic Zenith [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">158,645<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicSprinterMember', window );">Nordic Sprinter [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">159,089<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicSkierMember', window );">Nordic Skier [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">159,089<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicLightMember', window );">Nordic Light [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">158,475<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicCrossMember', window );">Nordic Cross [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">158,475<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicLunaMember', window );">Nordic Luna [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">150,037<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicCastorMember', window );">Nordic Castor [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">150,249<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicSiriusMember', window );">Nordic Sirius [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">150,183<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicPolluxMember', window );">Nordic Pollux [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">150,103<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicStarMember', window );">Nordic Star [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">159,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicSpaceMember', window );">Nordic Space [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup>[1]</sup></td>
<td class="nump">159,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NewbuildingoneMember', window );">Newbuilding [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup>[1],[2]</sup></td>
<td class="nump">157,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_Newbuild2Member', window );">Newbuilding [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup>[1],[2]</sup></td>
<td class="nump">157,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_Newbuild3Member', window );">Newbuilding [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems', window );"><strong>Schedule of Vessels [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_DeadweightTonnage', window );">Deadweight tons</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup>[1],[2]</sup></td>
<td class="nump">157,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td style="vertical-align: top; width: 12pt;" valign="top">[1]</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" valign="top">Vessel under construction per December 31, 2016.</td>
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<tr class="outerFootnote">
<td style="vertical-align: top; width: 12pt;" valign="top">[2]</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" valign="top">Expected delivery during the second half of 2018.</td>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Represents the number of new building in entities current fleet expected to be delivered in 2017.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Represents the number of new building in entities current fleet expected to be delivered in 2018.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>nat_</td>
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<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Represents number of vessels in operation in entities current fleet.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">nat_NumberOfOperatingVessels</td>
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<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>nat_</td>
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<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:integerItemType</td>
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<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
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<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>duration</td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Number of vessels build in Korea</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">nat_NumberOfVesselsBuildInKorea</td>
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<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>nat_</td>
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<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
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<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>instant</td>
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</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Represents number of vessels in construction in entities current fleet.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">nat_NumberOfVesselsInConstruction</td>
</tr>
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<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>nat_</td>
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<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:integerItemType</td>
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<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>duration</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Number of vessels under contract for construction.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">nat_NumberOfVesselsUnderContractForConstruction</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>nat_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:integerItemType</td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>duration</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">nat_ScheduleOfVesselsLineItems</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>nat_</td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:stringItemType</td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>duration</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The total number of vessels during the period, which may include crude oil tankers and new vessels under construction to be used in the normal conduct of business and not intended for resale.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">nat_TotalNumberOfVessels</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>nat_</td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:integerItemType</td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>instant</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Details</a><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicHarrierMember</td>
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<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicHawkMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Details</a><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicHawkMember</td>
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<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicHunterMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Details</a><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicHunterMember</td>
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<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicVoyagerMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Details</a><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicVoyagerMember</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicFighterMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Details</a><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicFighterMember</td>
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<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicFreedomMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Details</a><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicFreedomMember</td>
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<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicDiscoveryMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Details</a><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicDiscoveryMember</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicSaturnMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Details</a><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicSaturnMember</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicJupiterMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Details</a><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicJupiterMember</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicMoonMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Details</a><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicMoonMember</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicApolloMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Details</a><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicApolloMember</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
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<tr>
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
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<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicAuroraMember</td>
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<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
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<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicZenithMember</td>
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<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
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<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicSprinterMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicSprinterMember</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
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<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicSkierMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicSkierMember</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicLightMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicLightMember</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicCrossMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicCrossMember</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicLunaMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicLunaMember</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_NordicCastorMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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<tr>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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</table></div>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
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<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<th class="th" colspan="3">12 Months Ended</th>
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<div>Dec. 31, 2016 </div>
<div>USD ($) </div>
<div>Vessel </div>
<div>Agreement </div>
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<div>Subsidiary </div>
<div>Customer </div>
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<div>Dec. 31, 2015 </div>
<div>USD ($) </div>
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<div>Dec. 31, 2014 </div>
<div>USD ($) </div>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_BasisOfAccountingAbstract', window );"><strong>Basis of Accounting [Abstract]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_LongTermDebtNoncurrent', window );">Long-Term Debt</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup>[1]</sup></td>
<td class="nump">$ 442,820<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 324,568<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">$ 10,487<span></span>
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<td class="nump">10,474<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">3 months<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_AccountsReceivableNetAbstract', window );"><strong>Accounts Receivable [Abstract]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 150,000<span></span>
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<td class="nump">0<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">1<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">15 years<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">25 years<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 0<span></span>
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<td class="nump">0<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 0<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 9,000<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">30 months<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">2<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 100<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 200<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">1<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">2<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationAtFederalStatutoryIncomeTaxRate', window );">Income tax rate for wholly-owned subsidiaries in Norway</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">25.00%<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">27.00%<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">27.00%<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit', window );">Income tax expense</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="num">$ (102)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">$ (96)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">$ (47)<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">$ 18,100<span></span>
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<td class="nump">28,600<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_BasisOfAccountingAbstract', window );"><strong>Basis of Accounting [Abstract]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">330,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 15,900<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="nump">2<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">16.00%<span></span>
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<td class="nump">20.00%<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">16.00%<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">21.00%<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskByBenchmarkAxis=us-gaap_SalesRevenueServicesNetMember', window );">Revenues [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
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<td class="nump">2<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">2<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskPercentage1', window );">Concentration of credit risk percentage</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="nump">32.00%<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">42.00%<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">40.00%<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskByBenchmarkAxis=us-gaap_SalesRevenueServicesNetMember', window );">Revenues [Member] | Customer One [Member]</a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskLineItems', window );"><strong>Concentration Risk [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">29.00%<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="th" style="border-bottom: 0px;"><sup></sup></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td style="vertical-align: top; width: 12pt;" valign="top">[1]</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" valign="top">Long-Term Debt consists of outstanding amounts on the Credit Facility less unamortized deferred financing cost. Outstanding amounts on the Credit Facility were $447,000 and $330,000 as of December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively. Please see note 2 to these Consolidated Financial Statements describing the effects of the accounting principle change covering the deferred financing cost.</td>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Refers to the total number of charterers accounted for outstanding amount during the period.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Refers to the number of customers accounted for total revenues during the period.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The number of individual deferred compensation agreements during the period.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The number of different types of vessels owned and operated by the Company.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Represents number of wholly-owned subsidiaries of the entity.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The original maturity, in months, of deposits classified as cash and cash equivalents.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The maximum period when the vessels are expected to be drydocked for overhaul repairs and maintenance.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The minimum period when the vessels are expected to be drydocked for overhaul repairs and maintenance.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- References</a><div><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
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</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_AccountsReceivableNet">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>For an unclassified balance sheet, the amount due from customers or clients for goods or services that have been delivered or sold in the normal course of business, reduced to their estimated net realizable fair value by an allowance established by the entity of the amount it deems uncertain of collection.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02(3))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6877327&amp;loc=d3e13212-122682<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02(4))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6877327&amp;loc=d3e13212-122682<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 942<br> -SubTopic 210<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.9-03(9))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6876686&amp;loc=d3e534808-122878<br><br>Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 944<br> -SubTopic 210<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.7-03(5))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6879938&amp;loc=d3e572229-122910<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_AccountsReceivableNet</td>
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<tr>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- References</a><div><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_AllowanceForDoubtfulAccountsReceivable">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>For an unclassified balance sheet, a valuation allowance for receivables due a company that are expected to be uncollectible.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 310<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 4<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66008989&amp;loc=d3e5074-111524<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.4)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6877327&amp;loc=d3e13212-122682<br></p></div>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr>
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<tr>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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</div></td></tr>
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_AssetImpairmentCharges">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of write-down of assets recognized in the income statement. Includes, but is not limited to, losses from tangible assets, intangible assets and goodwill.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 360<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 4<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=68055307&amp;loc=d3e2420-110228<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 28<br> -Subparagraph (b)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3602-108585<br></p></div>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<td>us-gaap_</td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- References</a><div><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
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<tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Percentage of current income tax expense (benefit) and deferred income tax expense (benefit) pertaining to continuing operations.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 740<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 13<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=65882285&amp;loc=d3e32698-109319<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 235<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.4-08.(h)(2))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=26873400&amp;loc=d3e23780-122690<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 740<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 12<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=65882285&amp;loc=d3e32687-109319<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Percentage of domestic federal statutory tax rate applicable to pretax income (loss).</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 740<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 12<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=65882285&amp;loc=d3e32687-109319<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 740<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SAB TOPIC 6.I)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=34349781&amp;loc=d3e330036-122817<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 740<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 13<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=65882285&amp;loc=d3e32698-109319<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The percentage of ownership of common stock or equity participation in the investee accounted for under the equity method of accounting.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 323<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 3<br> -Subparagraph (a)(1)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66011266&amp;loc=d3e33918-111571<br></p></div>
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- References</a><div><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of current income tax expense (benefit) and deferred income tax expense (benefit) pertaining to continuing operations.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount after unamortized (discount) premium and debt issuance costs of long-term debt classified as noncurrent and excluding amounts to be repaid within one year or the normal operating cycle, if longer. Includes, but not limited to, notes payable, bonds payable, debentures, mortgage loans and commercial paper. Excludes capital lease obligations.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of noncurrent assets classified as other.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.17)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6877327&amp;loc=d3e13212-122682<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>This represents the entire liability recognized in the balance sheet that is associated with the defined benefit plans.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 715<br> -SubTopic 20<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=64852052&amp;loc=d3e1703-114919<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 715<br> -SubTopic 20<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (c)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=65897934&amp;loc=d3e1928-114920<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 942<br> -SubTopic 210<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.9-03.15)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6876686&amp;loc=d3e534808-122878<br><br>Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 715<br> -SubTopic 20<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 3<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=65897934&amp;loc=d3e2417-114920<br><br>Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 944<br> -SubTopic 210<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.7-03.15)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6879938&amp;loc=d3e572229-122910<br><br>Reference 6: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 715<br> -SubTopic 20<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=65897934&amp;loc=d3e2410-114920<br></p></div>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PensionAndOtherPostretirementDefinedBenefitPlansLiabilitiesCurrentAndNoncurrent</td>
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<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:monetaryItemType</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>credit</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>instant</td>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- References</a><div><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentAbstract</td>
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<td>na</td>
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<td>duration</td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The estimated or actual value of the asset at the end of its useful life or when it is no longer serviceable (cannot be used for its original purpose).</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentSalvageValue</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:monetaryItemType</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>debit</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>instant</td>
</tr>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Useful life of long lived, physical assets used in the normal conduct of business and not intended for resale, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days. Examples include, but not limited to, land, buildings, machinery and equipment, office equipment, furniture and fixtures, and computer equipment.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentUsefulLife</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:durationItemType</td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>duration</td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_StatementScenarioAxis=us-gaap_ScenarioPreviouslyReportedMember</td>
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<tr>
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<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table></div>
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_BallastTankMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Details</a><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis=nat_BallastTankMember</td>
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<tr>
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<td></td>
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<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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<td></td>
</tr>
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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<td></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Details</a><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskByBenchmarkAxis=us-gaap_AccountsReceivableMember</td>
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<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td></td>
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<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_MajorCustomersAxis=nat_CustomerOneMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Details</a><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_MajorCustomersAxis=nat_CustomerOneMember</td>
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<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td></td>
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<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
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<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_MajorCustomersAxis=nat_CustomerTwoMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_MajorCustomersAxis=nat_CustomerTwoMember</td>
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<td></td>
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<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
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<td></td>
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<tr>
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<td></td>
</tr>
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_MajorCustomersAxis=nat_CustomerThreeMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_MajorCustomersAxis=nat_CustomerThreeMember</td>
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<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td></td>
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<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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</div></td></tr>
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskByBenchmarkAxis=us-gaap_SalesRevenueServicesNetMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<td></td>
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<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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<tr>
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<td></td>
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<div>Dec. 31, 2016 </div>
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<div>USD ($) </div>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">1,612,940<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</td>
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</td>
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</td>
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</td>
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</td>
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</td>
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</td>
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</td>
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</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</td>
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</td>
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</td>
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</td>
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</td>
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</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</td>
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<td class="nump">2,500,000<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</td>
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<td class="nump">1,172,774<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
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</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">20,686,847<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionAxis=nat_NordicAmericanOffshoreLimitedMember', window );">Nordic American Offshore Limited [Member]</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
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</td>
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</td>
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</td>
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</td>
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</td>
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</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
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</td>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</td>
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<td class="nump">321,635,000<span></span>
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</td>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">336,200,000<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">68,100,000<span></span>
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</td>
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</td>
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</td>
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<td class="nump">36,372,000<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="num">$ (9,300,000)<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">1,571,749<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>This element represents the aggregate cost of investments accounted for under the equity method of accounting.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>This item represents an other than temporary decline in value that has been recognized against an investment accounted for under the equity method of accounting. The excess of the carrying amount over the fair value of the investment represents the amount of the write down which is or was reflected in earnings. The written down value is a new cost basis with the adjusted value of the investment becoming its new carrying value subject to the equity accounting method. Evidence of a loss in value might include, but would not necessarily be limited to, absence of an ability to recover the carrying amount of the investment or inability of the investee to sustain an earnings capacity which would justify the carrying amount of the investment.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The amount of current liabilities reported by an equity method investment of the entity.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of equity, including noncontrolling interest, reported by an equity method investment of the entity.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The amount of gross profit (loss) reported by an equity method investment of the entity.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The amount of liabilities and equity reported by an equity method investment of the entity.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 323<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66011266&amp;loc=d3e33912-111571<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 205<br> -SubTopic 20<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 7<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=64827811&amp;loc=SL51721683-107760<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 323<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 3<br> -Subparagraph (c)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66011266&amp;loc=d3e33918-111571<br><br>Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 825<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 28<br> -Subparagraph (f)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6957238&amp;loc=d3e14064-108612<br><br>Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 235<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.4-08(g))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=26873400&amp;loc=d3e23780-122690<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The amount of net income (loss) reported by an equity method investment of the entity.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The amount of noncurrent assets reported by an equity method investment of the entity.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The amount of noncurrent liabilities reported by an equity method investment of the entity.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The amount of revenue from sale of goods and services reduced by sales returns, allowances, and discounts reported by an equity method investment of the entity.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>This item represents the carrying amount on the entity's balance sheet of its investment in common stock of an equity method investee. This is not an indicator of the fair value of the investment, rather it is the initial cost adjusted for the entity's share of earnings and losses of the investee, adjusted for any distributions (dividends) and other than temporary impairment (OTTI) losses recognized.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 323<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66022249&amp;loc=d3e33749-111570<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.12)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6877327&amp;loc=d3e13212-122682<br></p></div>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_EquityMethodInvestments</td>
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<tr>
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<tr>
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<tr>
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<tr>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Fair value portion of investments accounted under the equity method.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 323<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 25<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66022186&amp;loc=d3e32014-111567<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_EquityMethodInvestmentsFairValueDisclosure</td>
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<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
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<tr>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>instant</td>
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</div></td></tr>
</table>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>This item represents the net total realized and unrealized gain (loss) included in earnings for the period as a result of selling or holding marketable securities categorized as trading, available-for-sale, or held-to-maturity, including the unrealized holding gain (loss) of held-to-maturity securities transferred to the trading security category and the cumulative unrealized gain (loss) which was included in other comprehensive income (a separate component of shareholders' equity) for available-for-sale securities transferred to trading securities during the period. Additionally, this item would include any gains (losses) realized during the period from the sale of investments accounted for under the cost method of accounting and losses recognized for other than temporary impairments (OTTI) of the subject investments.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 320<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 9<br> -Subparagraph (c)-(e)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=73527792&amp;loc=d3e27357-111563<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 28<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3602-108585<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 225<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.7(c),9(a))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=63488584&amp;loc=d3e20235-122688<br><br>Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 320<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 10<br> -Subparagraph (c)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=73527792&amp;loc=d3e27405-111563<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_GainLossOnInvestments</td>
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<tr>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>This item represents the entity's proportionate share for the period of the net income (loss) of its investee (such as unconsolidated subsidiaries and joint ventures) to which the equity method of accounting is applied. This item includes income or expense related to stock-based compensation based on the investor's grant of stock to employees of an equity method investee.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 225<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03(12))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=63488584&amp;loc=d3e20235-122688<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 944<br> -SubTopic 225<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.7-04(10))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6879464&amp;loc=d3e573970-122913<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 28<br> -Subparagraph (b)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3602-108585<br><br>Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 323<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66022249&amp;loc=d3e33749-111570<br><br>Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 942<br> -SubTopic 225<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.9-04(13)(f))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6879574&amp;loc=d3e536633-122882<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The carrying value per unit of investment at date of related balance sheet.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 946<br> -SubTopic 320<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 4<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.12-12C.9(a)(2))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=50485924&amp;loc=d3e611225-123010<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 946<br> -SubTopic 320<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.12-12.6(a)(2))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=50485924&amp;loc=d3e611133-123010<br></p></div>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_InvestmentOwnedRestrictedCarryingValuePerUnitAtDateOfBalanceSheet</td>
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<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
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<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The net realized gains or losses on investments during the period, not including gains or losses on securities separately or otherwise categorized as trading, available-for-sale, or held-to-maturity.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 944<br> -SubTopic 225<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.7-04.3(a))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6879464&amp;loc=d3e573970-122913<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 944<br> -SubTopic 325<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6485959&amp;loc=d3e22529-158502<br></p></div>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Cash received on stock transaction after deduction of issuance costs.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The number of shares issued or sold by the subsidiary or equity method investee per stock transaction.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks of a company.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Number of shares issued during the period from a dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP). A dividend reinvestment plan allows the shareholders to reinvest dividends paid to them by the entity on new issues of stock by the entity.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 505<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6928386&amp;loc=d3e21463-112644<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_StockIssuedDuringPeriodSharesDividendReinvestmentPlan</td>
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<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
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<tr>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
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<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Number of new stock issued during the period.</p></div>
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<td>us-gaap_</td>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
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<td class="nump">$ 100,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 200,000<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_RelatedPartyTransactionLineItems', window );"><strong>Related Party Transaction [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
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<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
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</td>
<td class="nump">100<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">100<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_RelatedPartyTransactionLineItems', window );"><strong>Related Party Transaction [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_DueToRelatedPartiesCurrent', window );">Accounts payable</a></td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_CostsAndExpensesRelatedParty', window );">Costs and expenses, related party</a></td>
<td class="nump">100<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">100<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">100<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_RelatedPartyTransactionsByRelatedPartyAxis=nat_NordicAmericanOffshoreLimitedMember', window );">Nordic American Offshore Limited [Member]</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_RelatedPartyTransactionLineItems', window );"><strong>Related Party Transaction [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_CostsAndExpensesRelatedParty', window );">Costs and expenses, related party</a></td>
<td class="nump">$ 2,200<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 2,100<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">2,200<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_ServicingFees', window );">Success fees services</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 1,500<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
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<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr>
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</tr>
<tr>
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<td>xbrli:monetaryItemType</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>debit</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>duration</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_ClassOfWarrantOrRightExercisePriceOfWarrantsOrRights1">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Exercise price per share or per unit of warrants or rights outstanding.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 235<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.4-08.(i)(4))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=26873400&amp;loc=d3e23780-122690<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_ClassOfWarrantOrRightExercisePriceOfWarrantsOrRights1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>num:perShareItemType</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>instant</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_ClassOfWarrantOrRightOutstanding">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Number of warrants or rights outstanding.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 235<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.4-08.(i))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=26873400&amp;loc=d3e23780-122690<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_ClassOfWarrantOrRightOutstanding</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:sharesItemType</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>instant</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_CostsAndExpensesRelatedParty">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Costs of sales and operating expenses for the period incurred from transactions with related parties.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 225<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.2)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=63488584&amp;loc=d3e20235-122688<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_CostsAndExpensesRelatedParty</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:monetaryItemType</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>debit</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>duration</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_DueToRelatedPartiesCurrent">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Carrying amount as of the balance sheet date of obligations due all related parties. For classified balance sheets, represents the current portion of such liabilities (due within one year or within the normal operating cycle if longer).</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 235<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.4-08.(k)(1))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=26873400&amp;loc=d3e23780-122690<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 850<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (d)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6457730&amp;loc=d3e39549-107864<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.19(a))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6877327&amp;loc=d3e13212-122682<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_DueToRelatedPartiesCurrent</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>credit</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>instant</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_RelatedPartyTransactionLineItems">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_RelatedPartyTransactionLineItems</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:stringItemType</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>duration</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_ServicingFees">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of fees from providing shareholder services, including, but not limited to, answering shareholder inquiries and providing shareholders with information about their investments.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_ServicingFees</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:monetaryItemType</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>credit</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>duration</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_RelatedPartyTransactionsByRelatedPartyAxis=nat_ScandicAmericanShippingLtdMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Details</a><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_RelatedPartyTransactionsByRelatedPartyAxis=nat_ScandicAmericanShippingLtdMember</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_RelatedPartyTransactionsByRelatedPartyAxis=us-gaap_DirectorMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Details</a><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_RelatedPartyTransactionsByRelatedPartyAxis=us-gaap_DirectorMember</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_RelatedPartyTransactionsByRelatedPartyAxis=us-gaap_ImmediateFamilyMemberOfManagementOrPrincipalOwnerMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Details</a><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_RelatedPartyTransactionsByRelatedPartyAxis=us-gaap_ImmediateFamilyMemberOfManagementOrPrincipalOwnerMember</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_RelatedPartyTransactionsByRelatedPartyAxis=nat_NordicAmericanOffshoreLimitedMember">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Details</a><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_RelatedPartyTransactionsByRelatedPartyAxis=nat_NordicAmericanOffshoreLimitedMember</td>
</tr>
<tr>
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<th class="tl" colspan="1" rowspan="2"><div style="width: 200px;"><strong>DEFERRED COMPENSATION LIABILITY (Details) - USD ($)<br> $ in Thousands</strong></div></th>
<th class="th" colspan="3">12 Months Ended</th>
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<th class="th"><div>Dec. 31, 2016</div></th>
<th class="th"><div>Dec. 31, 2015</div></th>
<th class="th"><div>Dec. 31, 2014</div></th>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_PostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesLineItems', window );"><strong>Post Retirement Benefits With Individual Employees [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 1,369<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 324<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 782<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 14,500<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 13,000<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_TitleOfIndividualAxis=us-gaap_ChiefFinancialOfficerMember', window );">Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer [Member]</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_PostRetirementBenefitsWithIndividualEmployeesLineItems', window );"><strong>Post Retirement Benefits With Individual Employees [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">20 years 6 months<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">66.00%<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">67 years<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">2.60%<span></span>
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<td class="nump">2.70%<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_TitleOfIndividualAxis=us-gaap_ChiefExecutiveOfficerMember', window );">Chairman, President and CEO [Member]</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_DeferredCompensationArrangementWithIndividualRequisiteServicePeriod1', window );">Required service period</a></td>
<td class="text">14 years<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">66.00%<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">70 years<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">2.60%<span></span>
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<td class="nump">2.70%<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 1,800<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 400<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 400<span></span>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The imputed interest on benefit plan assets.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The maximum annual benefit as a percentage of salary at the time of retirement.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The required retirement age of plan participants.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Minimum period the individual is required to perform services to be fully vested under the deferred compensation arrangement, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Aggregate carrying value as of the balance sheet date of the liabilities for all deferred compensation arrangements payable within one year (or the operating cycle, if longer). Represents currently earned compensation under compensation arrangements that is not actually paid until a later date.</p></div>
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<th class="th"><div>Dec. 31, 2014</div></th>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<tr class="re">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">13,500<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">33,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">137,665<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(13,500)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">157,165<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_WeightedAverageGrantDateFairValueAbstract', window );"><strong>Weighted-average grant-date fair value - Employees [Abstract]</strong></a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 9.84<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">14.65<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsForfeituresWeightedAverageGrantDateFairValue', window );">Forfeited during the year (in dollars per share)</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(13.40)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvestedWeightedAverageGrantDateFairValue', window );">Non-vested at end of period (in dollars per share)</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 13.75<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 9.84<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_AwardTypeAxis=us-gaap_RestrictedStockMember', window );">Restricted Stock Awards [Member] | Employees and Non Employees [Member]</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardLineItems', window );"><strong>Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_TreasuryStockSharesAcquired', window );">Shares repurchased during the period (in shares)</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">10,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardLineItems', window );"><strong>Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ShareBasedCompensationFairValueOfSharesIssued', window );">Fair value of shares issued to manager (in dollars per share)</a></td>
<td class="nump">$ 18.05<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 23.88<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardAwardVestingPeriod1', window );">Share-based compensation arrangement shares cliff vesting period</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">4 years<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvested', window );">Common shares repurchased at fair value (in shares)</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">33,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_EmployeeServiceShareBasedCompensationNonvestedAwardsTotalCompensationCostNotYetRecognized', window );">Unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested restricted stock</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_EmployeeServiceShareBasedCompensationNonvestedAwardsTotalCompensationCostNotYetRecognizedPeriodForRecognition1', window );">Weighted average period to recognize the unrecognized compensation cost</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">2 years 8 months 12 days<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvestedRollForward', window );"><strong>Restricted shares - Employees and Non-Employees [Roll Forward]</strong></a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
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<td class="nump">74,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">326,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The number of non-vested equity-based payment instruments, excluding stock (or unit) options, at fair value of non vested shares repurchased as of the balance sheet date.</p></div>
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The fair value per share of shares issued during the period under a share based compensation arrangement.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Number of restricted shares for which requirements have been lifted.</p></div>
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr>
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</tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Represents the expense recognized during the period arising from equity-based compensation arrangements (for example, shares of stock, unit, stock options or other equity instruments) with employees, directors and certain consultants qualifying for treatment as employees.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Unrecognized cost of unvested share-based compensation awards.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Weighted average period over which unrecognized compensation is expected to be recognized for equity-based compensation plans, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 718<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (i)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6415400&amp;loc=d3e5070-113901<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 718<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (a)(1)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6415400&amp;loc=d3e5070-113901<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The number of equity-based payment instruments, excluding stock (or unit) options, that were forfeited during the reporting period.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 718<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (c)(1)(iv)(3)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6415400&amp;loc=d3e5070-113901<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Weighted average fair value as of the grant date of equity-based award plans other than stock (unit) option plans that were not exercised or put into effect as a result of the occurrence of a terminating event.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 718<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (c)(2)(iii)(3)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6415400&amp;loc=d3e5070-113901<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The number of grants made during the period on other than stock (or unit) option plans (for example, phantom stock or unit plan, stock or unit appreciation rights plan, performance target plan).</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 718<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (c)(2)(iii)(1)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6415400&amp;loc=d3e5070-113901<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The weighted average fair value at grant date for nonvested equity-based awards issued during the period on other than stock (or unit) option plans (for example, phantom stock or unit plan, stock or unit appreciation rights plan, performance target plan).</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 718<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (c)(2)(iii)(1)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6415400&amp;loc=d3e5070-113901<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The number of non-vested equity-based payment instruments, excluding stock (or unit) options, that validly exist and are outstanding as of the balance sheet date.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 718<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (c)(2)(i)-(ii)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6415400&amp;loc=d3e5070-113901<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>A roll forward is a reconciliation of a concept from the beginning of a period to the end of a period.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The weighted average fair value of nonvested awards on equity-based plans excluding option plans (for example, phantom stock or unit plan, stock or unit appreciation rights plan, revenue or profit achievement stock award plan) for which the employer is contingently obligated to issue equity instruments or transfer assets to an employee who has not yet satisfied service or performance criteria necessary to gain title to proceeds from the sale of the award or underlying shares or units.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 718<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (c)(2)(i)-(ii)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6415400&amp;loc=d3e5070-113901<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The number of equity-based payment instruments, excluding stock (or unit) options, that vested during the reporting period.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 718<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (c)(2)(iii)(2)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6415400&amp;loc=d3e5070-113901<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The weighted average fair value as of grant date pertaining to an equity-based award plan other than a stock (or unit) option plan for which the grantee gained the right during the reporting period, by satisfying service and performance requirements, to receive or retain shares or units, other instruments, or cash in accordance with the terms of the arrangement.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 718<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (c)(2)(iii)(2)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6415400&amp;loc=d3e5070-113901<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Number of shares that have been repurchased during the period and are being held in treasury.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Refers to the percentage of increase in margin for the period of waiver.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount, after accumulated amortization, of debt issuance costs. Includes, but is not limited to, legal, accounting, underwriting, printing, and registration costs.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The carrying value as of the balance sheet date of the current and noncurrent portions of long-term obligations drawn from a line of credit, which is a bank's commitment to make loans up to a specific amount. Examples of items that might be included in the application of this element may consist of letters of credit, standby letters of credit, and revolving credit arrangements, under which borrowings can be made up to a maximum amount as of any point in time conditional on satisfaction of specified terms before, as of and after the date of drawdowns on the line. Includes short-term obligations that would normally be classified as current liabilities but for which (a) postbalance sheet date issuance of a long term obligation to refinance the short term obligation on a long term basis, or (b) the enterprise has entered into a financing agreement that clearly permits the enterprise to refinance the short-term obligation on a long term basis and the following conditions are met (1) the agreement does not expire within 1 year and is not cancelable by the lender except for violation of an objectively determinable provision, (2) no violation exists at the BS date, and (3) the lender has entered into the financing agreement is expected to be financially capable of honoring the agreement.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Maximum borrowing capacity under the credit facility without consideration of any current restrictions on the amount that could be borrowed or the amounts currently outstanding under the facility.</p></div>
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<th class="tl" colspan="1" rowspan="2"><div style="width: 200px;"><strong>INTEREST EXPENSE (Details) - USD ($)<br> $ in Thousands</strong></div></th>
<th class="th" colspan="3">12 Months Ended</th>
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<th class="th"><div>Dec. 31, 2016</div></th>
<th class="th"><div>Dec. 31, 2015</div></th>
<th class="th"><div>Dec. 31, 2014</div></th>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 8,811<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 7,590<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 8,686<span></span>
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<td class="nump">937<span></span>
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<td class="nump">2,025<span></span>
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<td class="nump">2,330<span></span>
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<td class="nump">1,382<span></span>
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<td class="nump">1,240<span></span>
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<td class="nump">1,228<span></span>
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<td class="nump">40<span></span>
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<td class="nump">0<span></span>
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<td class="nump">0<span></span>
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<td class="nump">11,170<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">10,855<span></span>
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<td class="nump">12,244<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 1,600<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 1,000<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 0<span></span>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Represents the expense against earnings during the period for commitment fees.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The amount of interest expenses for net of capitalized interest during the period.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of amortization expense attributable to debt issuance costs.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of interest capitalized during the period.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of the cost of borrowed funds accounted for as interest expense.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of interest expense classified as other.</p></div>
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<th class="th"><div>Dec. 31, 2016</div></th>
<th class="th"><div>Dec. 31, 2015</div></th>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Carrying value as of the balance sheet date of obligations incurred and payable, pertaining to costs that are statutory in nature, are incurred on contractual obligations, or accumulate over time and for which invoices have not yet been received or will not be rendered. Examples include taxes, interest, rent and utilities. Used to reflect the current portion of the liabilities (due within one year or within the normal operating cycle if longer).</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Carrying value as of the balance sheet date of [accrued] interest payable on all forms of debt, including trade payables, that has been incurred and is unpaid. Used to reflect the current portion of the liabilities (due within one year or within the normal operating cycle if longer).</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount of expenses incurred but not yet paid classified as other, due within one year or the normal operating cycle, if longer.</p></div>
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<th class="tl" colspan="1" rowspan="2"><div style="width: 200px;"><strong>EARNINGS (LOSS) PER SHARE (Details) - USD ($)<br> $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands</strong></div></th>
<th class="th" colspan="3">12 Months Ended</th>
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<th class="th"><div>Dec. 31, 2016</div></th>
<th class="th"><div>Dec. 31, 2015</div></th>
<th class="th"><div>Dec. 31, 2014</div></th>
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<td class="num">$ (13,166)<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">92,531,001<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</td>
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</td>
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<td class="nump">89,182,001<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</td>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">101,969,666<span></span>
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<td class="nump">89,182,001<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">101,969,666<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">89,182,001<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</tr>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueEmployeeStockOwnershipPlan', window );">Equity incentive plan issuance</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 1<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">120,069<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">113,433<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_CommonStockAbstract', window );"><strong>Common Stock [Abstract]</strong></a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_ProceedsFromIssuanceOfCommonStock', window );">Net proceeds from underwritten public offering of common shares</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 120,100<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 113,400<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 70,900<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 102,200<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">120,068<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">113,433<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_AdditionalPaidInCapitalAbstract', window );"><strong>Additional Paid in Capital [Abstract]</strong></a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
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<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_SharePremiumFund', window );">Share premium fund</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">77,400<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">77,400<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</tr>
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<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_IncreaseDecreaseOfSharePremiumFund', window );">Reduction of share premium</a></td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ContributedSurplusAccountAbstract', window );"><strong>Contributed Surplus Account [Abstract]</strong></a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss', window );">Net (Loss) Income</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="num">(4,456)<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
<td class="num">$ (13,166)<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_PaymentsOfDividends', window );">Dividend paid</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">125,700<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">123,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_StockholdersEquityPeriodIncreaseDecrease', window );">Contribution to surplus account</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 92,800<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 8,400<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_ShareholdersRightsPlanAbstract', window );"><strong>Shareholders' Rights Plan [Abstract]</strong></a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl custom" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_PreferredSharePurchaseRight', window );">Preferred share purchase right</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 0.01<span></span>
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</tr>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 115<span></span>
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</tr>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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</tr>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_StatementEquityComponentsAxis=us-gaap_CommonStockMember', window );">Common Stock [Member]</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">180,000,000<span></span>
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<td class="nump">180,000,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">90,000,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">90,000,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">90,000,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">180,000,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">180,000,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">180,000,000<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">89,182,001<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">89,182,001<span></span>
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<td class="nump">89,182,001<span></span>
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<td class="nump">75,382,001<span></span>
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<td class="nump">52,915,639<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<tr class="ro">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">101,969,666<span></span>
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<td class="nump">89,182,001<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">89,182,001<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">75,382,001<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<tr class="ro">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">101,969,666<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">89,182,001<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">89,182,001<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">75,382,001<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 892<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 892<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 754<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">$ 529<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</tr>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueEmployeeStockOwnershipPlan', window );">Equity incentive plan issuance</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">1<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">0<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueNewIssues', window );">Shares issued, value</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">127<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">138<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">206<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</tr>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">1,020<span></span>
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</td>
<td class="nump">892<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_StatementEquityComponentsAxis=us-gaap_CommonStockMember', window );">Common Stock [Member] | Scandic [Member]</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_nat_IssuedAndOutstandingSharesRollForward', window );"><strong>Issued and Outstanding Shares [Roll forward]</strong></a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_StockIssuedDuringPeriodSharesNewIssues', window );">Shares issued (in shares)</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueNewIssues', window );">Shares issued, value</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The increase in maximum number of common shares permitted to be issued by an entity's charter and bylaws.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>A roll forward is a reconciliation of a concept from the beginning of a period to the end of a period.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The percentage of common share ownership by any person that are subject to the entity's redemption of preferred share purchase rights.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Description of preferred share purchase right to acquire shares of preferred stock.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">nat_PreferredSharePurchaseRight</td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Amount included in additional paid in capital, which cannot be distributed without certain legal procedures designed to protect the creditors of the Company.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- References</a><div><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">nat_ShareholdersRightsPlanAbstract</td>
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</table></div>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- References</a><div><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_AdditionalPaidInCapitalAbstract</td>
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<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Face amount or stated value per share of common stock.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02(29))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6877327&amp;loc=d3e13212-122682<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_CommonStockParOrStatedValuePerShare</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_CommonStockSharesAuthorized">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The maximum number of common shares permitted to be issued by an entity's charter and bylaws.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02(29))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6877327&amp;loc=d3e13212-122682<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_CommonStockSharesAuthorized</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
<tr>
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</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_CommonStockSharesIssued">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Total number of common shares of an entity that have been sold or granted to shareholders (includes common shares that were issued, repurchased and remain in the treasury). These shares represent capital invested by the firm's shareholders and owners, and may be all or only a portion of the number of shares authorized. Shares issued include shares outstanding and shares held in the treasury.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02(29))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6877327&amp;loc=d3e13212-122682<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_CommonStockSharesIssued</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:sharesItemType</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Number of shares of common stock outstanding. Common stock represent the ownership interest in a corporation.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02(29))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6877327&amp;loc=d3e13212-122682<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 505<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6928386&amp;loc=d3e21463-112644<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_CommonStockSharesOutstanding</td>
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<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
<td>xbrli:sharesItemType</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>na</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_CommonStockValueOutstanding">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Value of all classes of common stock held by shareholders. May be all or portion of the number of common shares authorized. These shares exclude common shares repurchased by the entity and held as treasury shares.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 210<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02(29))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6877327&amp;loc=d3e13212-122682<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_CommonStockValueOutstanding</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>credit</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>instant</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The portion of profit or loss for the period, net of income taxes, which is attributable to the parent.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Glossary Net Income<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=51831255<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 28<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3602-108585<br><br>Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 260<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 50<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6371337&amp;loc=d3e3550-109257<br><br>Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 942<br> -SubTopic 225<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.9-04(22))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6879574&amp;loc=d3e536633-122882<br><br>Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 944<br> -SubTopic 225<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 1<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.7-04(18))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6879464&amp;loc=d3e573970-122913<br><br>Reference 6: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Glossary Other Comprehensive Income<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=51831270<br><br>Reference 7: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 225<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section S99<br> -Paragraph 2<br> -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03(20))<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=63488584&amp;loc=d3e20235-122688<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
<td>us-gaap_</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Data Type:</strong></td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Balance Type:</strong></td>
<td>credit</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Period Type:</strong></td>
<td>duration</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
</div></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="authRefData" style="display: none;" id="defref_us-gaap_PaymentsOfDividends">
<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="body" style="padding: 2px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Cash outflow in the form of capital distributions and dividends to common shareholders, preferred shareholders and noncontrolling interests.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Glossary Financing Activities<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=6513228<br><br>Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher FASB<br> -Name Accounting Standards Codification<br> -Topic 230<br> -SubTopic 10<br> -Section 45<br> -Paragraph 15<br> -Subparagraph (a)<br> -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&amp;oid=66902209&amp;loc=d3e3291-108585<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks of a company.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Number of shares of capital stock issued (purchased by employees) in connection with an employee stock ownership plan.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Aggregate value of stock issued during the period as a result of employee stock ownership plan (ESOP).</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Equity impact of the value of new stock issued during the period. Includes shares issued in an initial public offering or a secondary public offering.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The increase (decrease) in stockholders' equity during the period.</p></div>
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<div>Apr. 30, 2013 </div>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">30<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">8,000,000<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
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<tr class="re">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="nump">1,300,000<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="rh">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_LegalEntityAxis=nat_NordicAmericanOffshoreLimitedMember', window );">Nordic American Offshore Limited [Member] | Subsequent Event [Member]</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="re">
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl " style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_StockIssuedDuringPeriodSharesNewIssues', window );">Common shares issued in public offering (in shares) | shares</a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">41,300,000<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="nump">$ 1.25<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
</td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Aggregate dividends declared during the period for each share of common stock outstanding.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Date the declared dividend will be paid, in CCYY-MM-DD format.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="top.Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks of a company.</p></div>
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