OREANDA-NEWS. October 30, 2012.  Globaltrans Investment PLC (“Globaltrans” or the “Company”, and together with its consolidated subsidiaries, the “Group”; LSE ticker: GLTR), a leading private freight rail transportation group with operations in Russia, the CIS and the Baltic countries, today announces that the offering of 31.5 million ordinary shares (“Ordinary Shares”) in the form of Global Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”) (the “Offering”) has closed and that the GDRs are listed on the Official List of the UK Listing Authority and admitted to trading on the regulated market of the London Stock Exchange. One GDR represents an interest in one ordinary share.

The total offering size of USD 520 million, or 31.5 million shares, consisted of a primary component of approximately USD 400 million in the form of GDRs representing shares issued and sold by the Company (including 3,637,117 treasury shares), a secondary component of around USD 70 million in the form of GDRs representing existing shares sold by Transportation Investments Holding Limited (“TIHL”), the largest shareholder of Globaltrans, and the over-allotment option for a further USD 50 million of GDRs representing shares sold by TIHL, which was exercised in full, as announced earlier today.

The Company’s issued share capital immediately following the Offering increased to 178,740,916 ordinary shares. Following exercise of the over-allotment option, the Company’s free float increased to approximately 48.7% of the issued share capital.