GC Rieber Shipping: Approval of Prospectus

Stock Exchange Notice

Date: 13 February 2018

GC Rieber Shipping: Approval of Prospectus

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Reference is made to the stock exchange announcement dated 26 January 2018 in
which GC Rieber Shipping ASA ("GC Rieber Shipping" or the "Company") announced
that the extraordinary general meeting (the "EGM") had resolved to carry out a
rights issue (the "Rights Issue") of 13,333,333 new shares in the Company (the
"Offer Shares") at a subscription price of NOK 7.50 per Offer Share (the
"Subscription Price").

Approval and availability of the Prospectus:

The Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority (Nw. Finanstilsynet) has today
approved the Company's prospectus prepared in connection to the Rights Issue
(the "Prospectus").

Subject to applicable local securities laws, the Prospectus will be available
from 14 February 2018 at the following website: www.carnegie.no.

Subscription Period for the Rights Issue:
From 16 February 2018 to 16:30 hours (CET) on 2 March 2018.

Trading in Subscription Rights:
From 16 February 2018 to 16:30 hours (CET) on 2 March 2018.

Carnegie AS is acting as Receiving Agent in the Rights Issue.

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS is acting as the Company's legal adviser in
connection to the Rights Issue.

Further details of the terms of the Rights Issue will be announced prior to the
commencement of the subscription period and included in the Prospectus.

For further information, please contact:

CEO Christian W. Berg, phone: +47 974 05 553

CFO Einar Ytredal, phone: +47 975 20 184

About GC Rieber Shipping:

GC Rieber Shipping's business within offshore/shipping includes ownership in
specialized vessels, high quality marine ship management and project development
within the segments subsea, ice/support and marine seismic.

The group has a specialized competence in offshore operations in harsh
environments as well as design, development and maritime operation of offshore
vessels.

GC Rieber Shipping currently operates and has direct and indirect ownership in
11 advanced special purpose vessels for defined markets within the subsea,
ice/support and marine seismic segments.

The Company has its headquarter and a ship management office in Bergen, and an
additional ship management company in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Russia). The Company is
listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange with ticker RISH.

Further information is available on the Company's website www.gcrieber-
shipping.com.

This information is subject to disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5-12
of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

This communication may not be published, distributed or transmitted in or into
the United States, Canada, Australia, the Hong Kong Special Administrative
Region of the People's Republic of China, South Africa or Japan. These materials
do not constitute or form a part of any offer or solicitation to purchase or
subscribe for securities of the company (the "Shares") in the United States,
Norway or any other jurisdiction. The securities mentioned herein, including the
subscription rights to subscribe for Shares (the "Subscription Rights"), have
not been, and will not be, registered under the United States Securities Act of
1933 (the "Securities Act"). Neither the Shares nor the Subscription Rights may
be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from
registration under the Securities Act. Any sale in the United States of the
Shares or the Subscription Rights mentioned in this communication will be made
solely to "qualified institutional buyers" as defined in Rule 144A under the
Securities Act pursuant to transactions exempt from, or not subject to, the
registration requirements of the Securities Act.

Any offering of securities will be made by means of a prospectus to be published
that may be obtained from the Company once published, and that will contain
detailed information about the Company and its management, as well as financial
statements. These materials are an advertisement and not a prospectus for the
purposes of Directive 2003/71/EC, as amended (together with any applicable
implementing measures in any Member State, the "Prospectus Directive").

Investors should not subscribe for any Shares or acquire any subscription rights
referred to in these materials except on the basis of information contained in
the prospectus.

In any EEA Member State other than Norway (from the time the prospectus has been
approved by the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway, in its capacity as
the competent authority in Norway, and published in accordance with the
Prospectus Directive as implemented in Norway) that has implemented the
Prospectus Directive, this communication is only addressed to and is only
directed at "qualified investors" in that Member State within the meaning of
Article 2(1)(e) of the Prospectus Directive ("Qualified Investors"), i.e., only
to investors to whom an offer of securities may be made without the requirement
for the Company to publish a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus
Directive in such EEA Member State.

In the United Kingdom, these materials are only being distributed to and are
only directed at Qualified Investors who (i) are investment professionals
falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000
(Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (as amended) (the "Order") or (ii) are persons
falling within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the Order (high net worth companies,
unincorporated associations, etc) (all such persons together being referred to
as "Relevant Persons"). These materials are directed only at Relevant Persons
and must not be acted on or relied on by persons who are not Relevant Persons.

Any investment or investment activity to which this communication relates is
available only to Relevant Persons and will be engaged in only with Relevant
Persons.

Carnegie AS is acting for GC Rieber Shipping and no one else in connection with
the rights issue and will not be responsible to anyone other than GC Rieber
Shipping for providing the protections afforded to their respective clients or
for providing advice in relation to the rights issue and/or any other matter
referred to in this communication.

This communication and any materials distributed in connection with this
communication may contain certain forward-looking statements. By their nature,
forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they reflect GC
Rieber Shipping's current expectations and assumptions as to future events and
circumstances that may not prove accurate. A number of material factors could
cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed
or implied by these forward-looking statements, including the risks and
uncertainties to be set out in the prospectus.