Golden Ocean Group: GOGL - 2011 Annual General Meeting

Golden Ocean Group Limited (the "Company") advises that the 2011 Annual General Meeting of the Company was held on September 23, 2011 at 11:50 a.m. at the Elbow Beach Hotel, 60 South Shore Road, Paget PG04, Bermuda.   The following resolutions were passed:

1)                 To re-elect John Fredriksen as a Director of the Company.

2)                 To re-elect Tor Olav Troeim as a Director of the Company.

3)                 To re-elect Kate Blankenship as a Director of the Company.

4)                 To re-elect Hans Christian Boerresen as a Director of the Company.

5)                 To re-elect Cecilie Fredriksen as a Director of the Company.
         
6)                 To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers AS as auditors and to authorise the Directors to determine their remuneration.

7)                 That the remuneration payable to the Company's Board of Directors of a total amount of fees not to exceed US$300,000 be approved for the year ended December 31, 2011.

In addition, the audited consolidated financial statements for the Company for the year ended December 31, 2010 were presented to the Meeting.

Hamilton, Bermuda
September 23, 2011