Nordic American Tanker Shipping Ltd. concluded an agreement to charter to Gulf Navigation Company LLC of Dubai, U.A.E. the first of its modern double-hull Suezmax tankers as of the expiration of the original BP charter in Q4 2004. The five-year bareboat charter agreement, with two optional one-year extensions, provides for a bareboat charter rate of $17,325 per day for the vessel, equivalent to a timecharter rate of approximately $25,000 per day. Rolf Amundsen, a spokesman for Nordic American, said: "The charter we are announcing today provides a strategic foundation for the future growth of the company. With the fixed income from this ship…
