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Genco Shipping & Trading
  35 West 56th Street
  New York, NY 10019

July
19, 2005

BY FACSIMILE

U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

450 Fifth Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20549

Attention:
Max A. Webb, Esq., Assistant Director

Re:Genco Shipping & Trading Limited

Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-124718)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

        The
undersigned registrant hereby requests that the effectiveness of the above captioned Registration Statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
Form S-1 be accelerated so that it will be made effective at 4 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on July 21, 2005, or as soon thereafter as practicable, pursuant to
Rule 461(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act").

        The
undersigned registrant hereby acknowledges that (i) should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not
foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; (ii) the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing
effective, does not relieve the undersigned registrant from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and (iii) the undersigned registrant may not
assert staff comments or the declaration of effectiveness by the Commission or the Staff, as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of
the United States.

        The
undersigned registrant is aware of its obligations under the Act.

Yours faithfully,

GENCO SHIPPING & TRADING LIMITED

By:

/s/  ROBERT GERALD BUCHANAN       Name: Robert Gerald Buchanan

Title: President

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