Globaltrans announces AGM to be held on May 13th, 2011

Globaltrans Investment PLC (the “Company” together with its consolidated subsidiaries “Globaltrans”, or the “Group”), (LSE ticker: GLTR) today announces that at a meeting on April 1st, 2011, the Board of Directors of Globaltrans called an Annual General Meeting of shareholders to be held at City House, 6 Karaiskakis Street, Limassol, Cyprus on Friday, May 13th, 2011 at 10 am (Cyprus time), to consider and, if thought fit, pass the following resolutions:

1. To receive and adopt the Group and Company audited financial statements together with the reports of the directors and the auditor for the financial year ended 31 December 2010.

2. To approve the distribution by the Company of final dividends in respect of the financial year ended on 31 December 2010 in the amount of 37 US cents per ordinary share.

3. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers Limited as auditors of the Company to hold office until the conclusion of the next general meeting at which the accounts are laid before the Company and to authorise the Board of Directors to determine the remuneration of the auditors.

4. To re-appoint Alexander Eliseev as a director of the Company for a period of one year to hold office until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Company.

5. To re-appoint Michael Zampelas as a director of the Company for a period of one year to hold office until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Company with an annual gross remuneration of EUR60,000 (sixty thousand).

6. To re-appoint Johann Franz Durrer as a director of the Company for a period of one year to hold office until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Company with an annual gross remuneration of EUR110,000 (one hundred ten thousand).

7. To re-appoint Sergey Maltsev as a director of the Company for a period of one year to hold office until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Company.

8. To re-appoint Mikhail Loganov as a director of the Company for a period of one year to hold office until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Company with an annual gross remuneration of EUR120,000 (one hundred twenty thousand).

9. To re-appoint Elia Nicolaou as a director of the Company for a period of one year to hold office until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Company with an annual gross remuneration of EUR1,500 (one thousand five hundred).

10. To re-appoint Konstantin Shirokov as a director of the Company for a period of one year to hold office until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Company.

Notes

[1] Every holder of the Company's ordinary shares entitled to attend and vote at the above mentioned annual general meeting is entitled to appoint a proxy to attend and vote on his/her behalf. Such proxy need not be a member of the Company. To be valid, the relevant instrument appointing a proxy must be in the form attached to this notice of the annual general meeting and if applicable the power of attorney or other authority if any under which it is signed or a notarially certified copy of that power or authority shall be delivered at the registered office of the Company, at Omirou 20, Agios Nikolaos, 3095 Limassol, Cyprus, not later than 48 hours before the time for holding the annual general meeting.
[2] Holders of global depositary receipts (“GDRs”) will receive a written request containing voting instructions by which he/she may give instructions to the Depositary to vote for or against each resolution. Such request will include details as to the steps GDR holders need to take in order to give such instructions.

[3] This notice of annual general meeting and attached form of proxy are available for viewing at the registered office of the Company, at Omirou 20, Agios Nikolaos, 3095 Limassol, Cyprus, and will shortly be available at the National Storage Mechanism of the UK Listing Authority, located at http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.

ENQUIRIES
Globaltrans Investor Relations
Priit Pedaja
Mikhail Perestyuk
+357 25 503 153
irteam@globaltrans.com

The Bank of New York Mellon Investor Services
Phone: +1 888 BNY ADRS (1 888 269 2377); +1 201 680 6825
Email: shrrelations@bnymellon.com

NOTES TO EDITORS
Globaltrans (Globaltrans Investment PLC together with its subsidiaries - "Globaltrans" or "the Group") is the largest privately owned freight rail transportation group with operations in Russia by the size of owned rolling stock fleet (based on publicly available information) and the first such group to have an international listing.

Globaltrans Investment PLC is incorporated in Cyprus and has operating subsidiaries in Russia, Ukraine and Estonia. The Group provides freight rail transportation, railcar leasing, and certain ancillary services to clients in Russia, the CIS countries and the Baltics.

Globaltrans' global depositary receipts are listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker GLTR since May 2008.

To learn more on Globaltrans, please visit www.globaltrans.com.

LEGAL DISCLAIMER
Some of the information in this announcement may contain projections or other forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future financial performance of Globaltrans. You can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as 'expect', 'believe', 'anticipate', 'estimate', 'intend', 'will', 'could', 'may' or 'might', the negative of such terms or other similar expressions. Globaltrans wishes to caution you that these statements are only predictions and that actual events or results may differ materially. Globaltrans does not intend to update these statements to reflect events and circumstances occurring after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. Many factors could cause the actual results to differ materially from those contained in projections or forward-looking statements of Globaltrans, including, among others, general economic conditions, the competitive environment, risks associated with operating in Russia, rapid technological and market change in the industries Globaltrans operates in, as well as many other risks specifically related to Globaltrans and its operations.

Proxy Form

To: Globaltrans Investment Plc (the “Company”)

I/We [...............] of [................] being a member/members of the Company hereby appoint [.............] of [...........................] or failing him [..........................] of [.........................] as my/our proxy to vote for me/us or on my/our behalf at the Annual General Meeting of the Company, to be held on [.................] and at any adjournment thereof.

 

Signed:…………………………………………

Name:…………………………………………..

 

Date: …………………………………….

 

Notes to Form of Proxy:

1. The Form of Proxy shall be in writing under the hand of the appointer or of his attorney duly authorised in writing, or if the appointer is a corporation, either under seal or under the hand of an officer or attorney duly authorised. A proxy need not be a member of the Company.

2. To be valid, this Form of Proxy and if applicable the power of attorney or other authority if any under which it is signed or a notarially certified copy of that power or authority must be delivered at the registered office of the Company, at Omirou 20, Agios Nikolaos, 3095 Limassol, Cyprus, not later than 48 hours before the time for holding the annual general meeting.

3. In the case of joint holders the vote of the senior who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy, shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders; and for this purpose seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names stand in the Register of Members.