AMSC ASA - Director's Dealing 2018

American Shipping Company ASA : Primary Insider Notification

Reference is made to previous stock exchange announcement of 1 December 2017

relating to Aker ASA's ("Aker") indirect total return swap ("TRS") agreements

with financial exposure to 18,687,620 underlying shares in American Shipping

Company ASA ("AMSC"), equal to 30.83 per cent of the share capital in AMSC.

Aker, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Aker Capital AS, has today terminated

said agreements. Concurrently with the termination Aker Capital AS has entered

into two new TRS agreements with Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB ("SEB") and

DNB Bank ASA ("DNB") with financial exposure to 9,182,520 and 9,505,100

underlying shares in AMSC respectively. The expiry date of the new TRS

agreements has been set to 29 November 2019. The swap prices for the contracts

with SEB and DNB are NOK 36.1592 and NOK 36.1685 per share respectively.

In addition to the financial exposure provided by the abovementioned two swap

agreements, Aker Capital AS also holds 11,557,022 shares in AMSC, equaling

19.07 per cent of the shares and votes of AMSC.

The information contained herein is subject to the disclosure requirements of

section 4-2 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.

This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section

5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.

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