8-K Current Report
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON,
D.C. 20549
FORM
8-K
CURRENT
REPORT PURSUANT TO
SECTION
13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
DATE
OF
REPORT (DATE OF EARLIEST EVENT REPORTED):
October
11, 2006
GENERAL
MARITIME CORPORATION
(EXACT
NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)
REPUBLIC
OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS
(STATE
OR
OTHER JURISDICTION OF INCORPORATION)
001-16531
(COMMISSION
FILE NUMBER)
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06-159-7083
(I.R.S.
EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION NO.)
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299
Park Avenue
New
York, New York 10171
(ADDRESS
OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES)
|
(212)
763-5600
(REGISTRANT’S
TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE)
Not
Applicable
(FORMER
NAME OR FORMER ADDRESS, IF CHANGED SINCE LAST REPORT)
Check
the
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Item
7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure
The
Company has recently entered into time charters with respect to three of its
Suezmax vessels and one of its Aframax vessels. Each of these time charters
provides for delivery by the Company of the chartered vessel to the charterer
in
the fourth quarter of 2006 and is for a period of three years.
The
information set forth under “Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure” shall not be
deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Act of 1934, as
amended, nor shall such information be deemed incorporated by reference in
any
filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, except as shall be
expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
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 hereunto
duly authorized.
GENERAL
MARITIME CORPORATION
(Registrant)
By: /s/ John C. Georgiopoulos
Name:
John C.
Georgiopoulos
Title: Executive
Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer
Date: October
11, 2006