OREANDA-NEWS. Nordic American Tankers Limited (the "Company") (NYSE: NAT) conducted its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting") on June 20, 2016 in Hamilton, Bermuda. The following resolutions were approved and adopted at the Meeting:

  1. Election of the five nominees, Herbj?rn Hansson, Andreas Ove Ugland, Jim Kelly, Richard Vietor and Jan Erik Langangen, to the Board of Directors to serve until the next Annual General Meeting of Shareholders; and
     
  2. Approval of the appointment of KPMG AS as the Company's independent auditors until the close of the next Annual General Meeting of Shareholders.

Matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements.  The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides safe harbor protections for forward-looking statements in order to encourage companies to provide prospective information about their business. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements, which are other than statements of historical facts.

Important factors that, in our view, could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements include the strength of world economies and currencies, general market conditions, including fluctuations in charter rates and vessel values, changes in demand in the tanker market, as a result of changes in OPEC's petroleum production levels and world wide oil consumption and storage, changes in our operating expenses, including bunker prices, drydocking and insurance costs, the market for our vessels, availability of financing and refinancing, changes in governmental rules and regulations or actions taken by regulatory authorities, potential liability from pending or future litigation, general domestic and international political conditions, potential disruption of shipping routes due to accidents or political events, vessels breakdowns and instances of off-hires and other important factors described from time to time in the reports filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.