Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 20, 2007

Registration Statement No. 333-128501


UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 


POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 


QUINTANA MARITIME LIMITED

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 


 

Republic of the Marshall Islands   98-0454094

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

Quintana Maritime Limited

c/o Quintana Management LLC

Attention: Stamatis Molaris

Pandoras 13 & Kyprou Street

166 74 Glyfada, Greece

Telephone: 011-30-210-898-5056

(Address and telephone number of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

 


QUINTANA MARITIME LIMITED 2005 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN

(Full Title of Plan)

 


Seward & Kissel LLP

Attention: Gary J. Wolfe, Esq.

One Battery Park Plaza

New York, New York 10004

(212) 574-1200

(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)

 


Copies to:

Dan Fleckman

Vinson & Elkins L.L.P.

666 Fifth Avenue

26th Floor

New York, New York 10103

(212) 237-0000

(telephone number)

(212) 237-0100

(facsimile number)

 



EXPLANATORY NOTE

This post-effective amendment is being filed solely to include the consent of Deloitte, Hadjipavlou, Sofianos & Cambanis S.A. to the incorporation by reference of the consolidated financial statements of Quintana Maritime Limited (the “Company”) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 that were included in the Form 10-K filed by the Company on March 9, 2007.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this post-effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Glyfada, the country of Greece, on April 20, 2007.

 

QUINTANA MARITIME LIMITED

By:

 

/s/ Stamatis Molaris

  Stamatis Molaris
  Chief Executive Officer and President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.

 

Signature

 

Title

 

Date

/s/ Stamatis Molaris

 

Chief Executive Officer, President and Director

(Principal Executive Officer)

  April 20, 2007
Stamatis Molaris    

*

  Chief Financial Officer   April 20, 2007
Paul J. Cornell   (Principal Financial Officer; Principal Accounting Officer)  

*

  Chairman   April 20, 2007
Corbin J. Robertson, Jr.    

*

  Director   April 20, 2007
Joseph R. Edwards    

*

  Director   April 20, 2007
Corbin J. Robertson III    

*

  Director   April 20, 2007
Hans J. Mende    

*

  Director   April 20, 2007
Gurpal Singh Grewal    

*

  Director   April 20, 2007
S. James Nelson    

 

* By:

 

/s/ Stamatis Molaris

  Stamatis Molaris
  Attorney-in-Fact

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.  

Description

23.1   Consent of Deloitte, Hadjipavlou, Sofianos & Cambanis S.A., Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

2