Viking Supply Ships contract with Talisman Energy (UK) Limited extended

7/3/2012 10:30 AM EST

Talisman Energy (UK) Limited has extended an existing one-year contract for six months firm. Operating vessel is the SBS Tempest, a platform supply vessel of the VS470 MkII Design, owned by Viking Supply Ships. The primary function of the vessel is to transport supplies to and from offshore oil platforms.

The new charter extension will mean that the vessel will continue to operate from Talisman’s logistics base in Peterhead, Scotland.

For further information, please contact Managing Director Viking Supply Ships Limited, Aberdeen, Nigel Taylor, ph +44(0)1224 712277.

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 900 employees and the turnover in 2011 was MSEK 2,989. 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 July 3, 2012 at 4.30 pm.