TransAtlantic appoints Mats Johansson as new Site Manager in Finland

Regulatory News:

Mats Johansson starts as TransAtlantic’s (STO:RABTB) new Site Manager in Finland on September 1st, 2013. He succeeds Kari Wuorimaa who after long and faithful service has decided to retire. Mats Johansson comes from Containerships and the position as Nordic Regional Director where he has been responsible for operations and sales in Finland, Sweden and Denmark. He has previously been Marketing Director at Oy Rail Transportation Ltd and Searail Oy, focusing on the Russian market. TransAtlantic’s business area Industrial Shipping’s operations in Finland mainly includes transport of import- and export freight to and from major steel, mining and forestry companies. The Finnish division stands for about a third of Industrial Shipping’s activities. TransAtlantic has offices in Raahe and Helsinki and has the ambition to become the largest shipping and logistics company in the northern Baltic Sea.

Rederi AB TransAtlantic (RABT) is a leading Swedish shipping company with headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden and additional offices in Europe. The company is organized into two business areas: Viking Supply Ships and Industrial Shipping. Viking Supply Ships, operating within offshore and icebreaking, is also a wholly owned subsidiary of RABT. The Industrial Shipping business area consists of three divisions: Bulk, Container and RoRo. The Group has about 800 employees and the turnover in 2012 was MSEK 3,274. 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 June 5, 2013 at 06.30 pm.

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