Johan Gustafson

Erik Thun Group

A sustainable Swedish partner over generations Long term – Responsible – Committed The Erik Thun Group is a family company established in Lidköping in 1938 by Helge Källsson, now involving a third generation. Our core business is shipping and our fleet of around 50 vessels is mainly employed in short sea shipping in Northern Europe. Our shipping operations are divided into the following segments: • Dry cargo vessels • Self-unloading vessels • Coastal and intermediate size product tankers • Cement carriers The dry cargo and self-unloading vessels are commercially operated from our head office in Lidköping. Our tankers are commercially operated by Thun Tankers in Gothenburg and the cement vessels by JTC in Norway. A third of our vessels are technically managed from Lidköping, and the rest of the vessels are technically managed from the Netherlands through our partner MF Shipping Group. The Erik Thun Group also includes the shipbroker and port agency OP Ship AB and our subsidiary Avatar Logistics, developing logistics solutions on the inland waterways. Other businesses we conduct are aircraft sales and leasing and, through our subsidiary TAM, maintenance of aircrafts. We also have a meat-processing factory in Gothenburg, Direkt Chark.