Sweco

Report Publication Announcement • Dec 22, 2008

PRESS RELEASE 22 December 2008

Sweco to design an environmentally friendly car-passenger ferry

Sweco Industry has won an engineering assignment from STX Finland Cruise. The assignment includes hull and machinery engineering for a car-passenger ferry and its sister ship for the British shipping company P&O Ferries. The ferries will be constructed at the STX shipyard in Rauma, Finland

The ferries will be designed to be as environmentally friendly as possible. For example, there will be set limits for the consumption of fuel in place. This is made possible by the hydro-dynamically efficiently designed hull.

The ferries will operate on the British P&O Ferries' route between Dover and Calais. When finished, they will be the largest ferries in the English Channel, with a length of 210 metres and weight of 49 000 gross tonnes. The ferries can hold 2'000 passengers.

The scope of work which Sweco is responsible for will employ approximately 40 Sweco specialists at the maximum.

The ferries with the total value of 360 million euro will be delivered in 2010 and 2011.

Sweco is a provider of international consulting engineering services with combined expertise in engineering, environmental technology and architecture. The Group has annual sales of approximately SEK 4.6 billion and 5,500 employees in ten countries. The company has projects currently underway in some 80 countries worldwide. Sweco is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm AB.

For further information please contact: Erkki Peni, Business Unit Director, Marine, Sweco Industry, tel. +358 400 533 242, erkki.peni@sweco.fi

The information contained herein may be subject to the disclosure requirements in the Swedish Securities Exchange and Clearing Operations Act and/or the Financial Instruments Trading Act.

Phone +46 8 695 60 00 E-mail info@sweco.se www.swecogroup.com

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