Company: DSX-PB
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001562762-25-000050
Chunk: 186

Company: DIANA SHIPPING INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 7
Chunk 186
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Item 7.

Major Shareholders and Related Party Transactions

A.

Major Shareholders

The following table

sets forth information

regarding ownership

of our common

stock of which

we are aware

as of the

date of this

annual report, for (i) beneficial

owners of five

percent or more of

our common stock

and

(ii) our

officers

and

directors,

individually

and

as

a

group.

All

of

our

shareholders,

including

the

shareholders listed in this table, are entitled to one vote for each share

of common stock held.

Title of Class

Identity of Person or Group

Number of

Shares Owned

Percent of

Class

*

Common Stock,

Semiramis Paliou (1)

24,719,462

20.3%

par value $0.01

Anastasios Margaronis (2)

10,505,922

8.8%

Sea Trade Holdings Inc. (3)

14,682,781

12.7%

F.

Laeisz GmbH (4)

6.305.426

5.4%

All other officers and directors as a group (5)

12,573,796

10.8%

* Based on 115,767,861 common shares outstanding as of March 20, 2025.

(1)

Mrs. Semiramis Paliou indirectly may be deemed to beneficially own 20.3% beneficially owned

through Tuscany Shipping Corp., or Tuscany,

and through 4 Sweet Dreams S. A., as the result

of her ability to

control the vote and

disposition of such entities.

The shares include 5,802,034

shares

of

common

stock

issuable

to

Semiramis Paliou

upon

exercise

of

3,527,501

warrants

distributed on December 14, 2023. As of December 31, 2022, 2023 and 2024, Mrs. Semiramis

Paliou

owned

indirectly

16.0%,

20.3%

and

18.4%,

respectively,

of

our

outstanding

common

stock. Additionally,

Mrs. Paliou

owns, through

Tuscany,

10,675 shares

of Series

C Preferred

Stock, par value $0.01 per share, and