FORM 6-K
    
    
    SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
    WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
    
    
    REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE 13A-16 OR 15D-16
    OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
    
    
    For the month of November 2025
    Commission File Number: 001-32458
    
    
    DIANA SHIPPING INC.
    (Translation of registrant's name into English)
    Pendelis 16, 175 64 Palaio Faliro, Athens, Greece
    (Address of principal executive office)
    
    
    Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
    
    
    Form 20-F [X] Form 40-F [ ]
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS FORM 6-K REPORT
    
    
    Attached to this Report on Form 6-K as 
Exhibit 99.1
      is a press release dated November 3, 2025, of Diana Shipping Inc. (the "Company"), announcing that, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, it has entered into a time charter contract with MOL Ocean Bulk Pte. Ltd., Singapore, for one of its
      Newcastlemax dry bulk vessels, the m/v Los Angeles.
 
    
    
    The information contained in this Report on Form 6-K is hereby incorporated by reference into the Company's registration statements on Form F-3 (File Nos.
      333-266999 and 333-280693) that were filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and became effective on September 16, 2022, and September 9, 2024, respectively.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    SIGNATURES
    
    
    Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
      thereunto duly authorized.
    
    
    
    
    
        
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             DIANA SHIPPING INC. 
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             Dated: November 3, 2025 
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             By: 
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             /s/ Anastasios Margaronis 
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             Anastasios Margaronis 
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             President 
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