Bergen Group awarded contract for five working boats

Bergen Group has, through its subsidiary Bergen Group Risnes AS, received
contracts for delivering a total of five working catamarans for the aquaculture
industry. The contracts have a total value of NOK 24 million, and generate work
for Bergen Group Risnes through all 1 half of 2011.

Four of the working catamarans will be delivered to Mainstream Norway AS (a
subsidiary of Cermaq ASA) and one is going to Firda Sjøfarmer AS. The deliveries
will take place in the 1st and 2nd quarter of 2011. Both these fish farming
companies are among the leaders in the aquaculture industry in Norway.

The five working catamarans are all with a length of 12, 5 meters, and improved
versions of the company's standard catamarans for the aquaculture industry.
These boats have in the recent decades been a market leader in the working boat
segment within the aquaculture industry, and Bergen Group Risnes has over the
years built and delivered a total of 178 similar boats for deliveries to Norway,
Scotland and Shetland.

Bergen Group is a maritime industrial group with core expertise within
shipbuilding, maritime service, offshore and technology. The Group has a total
of 1,800 employees along the Norwegian coast from Kirkenes in the north to
Stavanger in the south.  The head quarter is located in Bergen.

For further information please contact:

Sebjørn Madsen
Executive Vice President, Bergen Group Technology AS, mobile + 47 468 59 758

This information is subject of the disclosure requirements acc. to §5-12 vphl
(Norwegian Securities Trading Act)


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