Viking Supply Ships

Major Shareholding Notification • Jan 9, 2013

Press release

January 9, 2013

Changes in Rederi AB TransAtlantic share ledger

The majority owner of Rederi AB TransAtlantic (RABT), Kistefos AS, is reorganizing its structure of entities through which Kistefos AS owns the shares in RABT. After the reorganization, Viking Invest AS, organization number 979801777, will be the formal owner of the Kistefos Group's 62.9 % shares in RABT.

For further details, please contact Head of Corporate Communications at TransAtlantic, Carina Dietmann, ph +46 (0) 31-763 2334.

Rederi AB TransAtlantic is a leading Swedish shipping company with headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden and additional offices in Europe. The company is organized into two business areas: Industrial Shipping and Viking Supply Ships. The company has about 850 employees and the turnover in 2011 was MSEK 2,989. The Industrial Shipping business area consists of three divisions: Bulk, Container and RoRo. The company's B-shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm, Small Cap segment. www.rabt.se

TransAtlantic is obliged to make this information public according to the Financial Markets Act and/or the Financial Instruments Trading Act (Sw: lagen om värdepappersmarknaden and lagen om handel med finansiella instrument). The information was submitted for publication on January 9, 2013 at 10.00 a.m.

Rederi AB TransAtlantic (publ) P O Box 8809, 402 71 Göteborg, tel 031-763 23 00 Org nr 556161-0113, www.rabt.se