TransAtlantic divests MultiDocker to Skärdgårdshavet AB

Percy Österström, Senior Vice President at TransAtlantic’s business area
Industrial Shipping, has decided to leave TransAtlantic in order to be fully
engaged in operations connected to Skärgårdshavet AB, fully owned by Percy
Österström.

The TransAtlantic Annual General Meeting, taking place April 27,
2012, approved to sell all of their shares in MultiDocker to Skärgårdshavet AB,
according to agreement and in line with an option that was made in connection
with TransAtlantic’s acquisition of Österströms International AB last year.
MultiDocker is now a daughter company to, and 100% owned by Skärdgårdshavet
AB.

Percy Österström was previously CEO and owner of Österströms Rederi AB.
He has the last few months worked with developing and strengthening customer
relations within TransAtlantic’s business area Industrial Shipping. He has also
been a member of the Board for the business area.

When Percy Österström now
leaves his assignment, TransAtlantic would like to thank him for excellent
cooperation, wishing him all the best for the future.

For further
information, please contact Head of Corporate Communications, Carina Dietmann,
ph +46 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 fleet consists of 62 vessels and the company has
about 850 employees. The turnover in 2011 was MSEK 2 989. The Industrial
Shipping business area consists of five divisions: Bulk, Container, RoRo Baltic,
Short Sea Bulk and Integrated Logistics. 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 the Financial Instruments Trading Act (Sw: lagen om värdepappersmarknaden
and lagen om handel med finansiella instrument). The information was submitted
for publication on May 2, 2012 at 02.00 pm.