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The Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE: DSX) SEC filings page on Stock Titan provides access to the company’s U.S. regulatory disclosures as a foreign private issuer in the deep sea freight transportation industry. Diana Shipping files reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Form 20-F annual reports and multiple Form 6-K current reports, which furnish press releases, investor presentations and corporate updates.
Recent Form 6-K filings referenced by the company attach press releases announcing time charter contracts for specific dry bulk vessels, such as Ultramax, Kamsarmax and Capesize ships, with counterparties including Bunge SA, Paralos Shipping Pte. Ltd., Glencore Freight Pte. Ltd., Stone Shipping Ltd and SwissMarine Pte. Ltd. These filings describe charter rates, charter periods and anticipated gross revenues, and are incorporated by reference into Diana Shipping’s effective Form F-3 registration statements.
Other 6-K reports provide financial results for defined periods, including time charter revenues, voyage expenses, vessel operating expenses, net income, fleet utilization data and non-GAAP measures such as time charter equivalent (TCE) rates and daily vessel operating expenses. Additional filings include investor presentations and disclosures of corporate actions, such as a proposal to acquire remaining shares of Genco Shipping & Trading Limited and changes in company officers approved by the Board of Directors.
On Stock Titan, these SEC filings are updated as they are released on EDGAR and can be paired with AI-powered summaries that explain the key points of each document. Users can quickly identify which filings relate to chartering activity, fleet changes, financial performance, registration statements or governance matters, and use this information to understand how Diana Shipping manages its dry bulk shipping business and communicates with investors.
Diana Shipping Inc. Chief Executive Officer Semiramis Paliou reports her indirect ownership of common shares, warrants and preferred stock through 4 Sweet Dreams S.A. (4SD) and Tuscany Shipping Corp. She controls the vote and disposition of both entities, so their holdings are attributed to her.
Through the December 14, 2023 warrant distribution, she indirectly holds 807,612 warrants via 4SD and 2,719,889 warrants via Tuscany, entitling her to 1,357,975 and 4,573,411 common shares upon exercise. Her indirect stake also includes 3,585,820 unvested shares awarded under the 2014 Equity Incentive Plan, Series C Preferred Stock with 1,000 votes per share, and Series D Preferred Stock with 200,000 votes per share, subject to a 36% overall voting cap.
Diana Shipping Inc. Co-CFO and Treasurer Maria Dede filed an amended Form 3 showing her current equity holdings. She directly owns 1,412 shares of common stock and 3,681 Series B Preferred Shares of the company.
The Series B Preferred Shares carry an 8.875% cumulative dividend and a liquidation preference initially equal to $25.00 per share in cash, plus any accumulated and unpaid dividends, payable upon a liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the company as described in its Statement of Designation.
DIANA SHIPPING INC. president Ioannis Zafirakis filed an amended Form 3 to detail his indirect holdings in the company through Abra Marinvest Inc. The filing reports warrants indirectly held through Abra that are currently exercisable for 1,681,470 shares of common stock.
It also shows indirect ownership of 3,253,408 common shares, including 1,823,780 unvested shares awarded under the company’s 2014 Equity Incentive Plan, and 84,458 Series B Preferred Shares. Each Series B preferred share carries a $25.00 initial liquidation preference plus accumulated and unpaid dividends.
Diana Shipping director Anastasios Margaronis filed an amended initial ownership report detailing indirect stakes in common stock, preferred shares and warrants. Through Anamar Investments Inc., he indirectly holds 6,963,453 common shares, including 808,408 unvested awards under the 2014 Equity Incentive Plan, and warrants exercisable for 2,663,223 common shares received in a December 14, 2023 warrant dividend. He also reports indirect holdings through ESX Investments Inc., including 1,044,642 common shares and warrants exercisable for 351,306 common shares. Additional common shares, Series B Preferred Shares and warrants for 205,931 common shares are held by his spouse, with beneficial ownership of those securities expressly disclaimed except for any pecuniary interest.
Diana Shipping Inc., a global dry bulk shipping company, has extended the time charter for its Kamsarmax vessel m/v Myrto with Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha of Tokyo. The vessel will earn a gross charter rate of US$16,650 per day, up from US$12,000 per day, for a period running from a new charter expected to start on April 7, 2026 until at least September 20, 2027 and up to November 20, 2027.
For the minimum scheduled charter period, the extension is anticipated to generate about US$8.71 million in gross revenue. The Myrto is an 82,131 dwt Kamsarmax vessel built in 2013. Diana Shipping currently operates 36 dry bulk vessels with a combined carrying capacity of approximately 4.1 million dwt and a weighted average fleet age of 12.33 years, and it expects delivery of two methanol dual fuel Kamsarmax newbuildings in the second half of 2027 and first half of 2028.
Diana Shipping Inc. is soliciting proxies to elect six director nominees to the board of Genco Shipping and Trading Limited and to pass proposals to repeal recent by‑law amendments and require a post‑meeting strategic review. Diana discloses beneficial ownership of 14.8% (6,413,151 shares) and says it submitted a proposal to acquire Genco for $23.50 per share supported by $1.433B of committed financing and a $470.5M agreement to sell 16 vessels to Star Bulk upon closing.
Diana asserts the Genco board declined to engage and urges shareholders to use Diana’s GOLD universal proxy card to elect its slate, vote for the Auditor, the By‑Law Repeal Proposal, and the Strategic Review Proposal, and to withhold on the incumbent nominees.
Diana Shipping Inc. submitted a Form 6-K noting that it has increased its all-cash offer to acquire all issued and outstanding shares of Genco Shipping & Trading Limited. The company also states that the information in this report, other than the CEO’s commentary, is incorporated by reference into its effective Form F-3 shelf registration statements.
DIANA SHIPPING INC. director Simon Frank Peter Morecroft has filed an initial ownership report showing direct holdings of common stock and warrants. He holds 247,699 shares of common stock, which include 181,601 unvested shares awarded under the company’s 2014 Equity Incentive Plan. He also holds warrants from a December 2023 dividend distribution that entitle him to acquire 11,697 additional common shares upon exercise, providing further potential equity exposure.
Diana Shipping Inc. director and Chief Executive Officer Semiramis Paliou filed an initial statement of beneficial ownership. The Form 3 shows she indirectly holds common stock and warrants through 4 Sweet Dreams S.A. and Tuscany Shipping Corp., over which she can control voting and disposition.
The filing notes 3,585,820 indirectly held shares awarded under the company’s 2014 Equity Incentive Plan that remain unvested. It also describes warrants received as part of a December 14, 2023 warrant distribution dividend, which entitle her entities to additional common shares upon exercise.
Diana Shipping Inc. filed an initial ownership report for Chief Technical Officer Evangelos Sfakiotakis. This Form 3 identifies him as an officer of the company but shows no reported transactions or derivative positions and does not list any current holdings in the provided data.