ABSTRACT
The Swedish law on limitation of liability for maritime claims is contained in the Swedish Maritime Code. The Swedish law on limitation of liability for maritime claims is based on the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, London 1976. A peculiarity in Sweden is that if the right to limitation for a maritime claim arises in general average, then any dispute arising from the general average must, unless the parties have agreed otherwise, be referred to the Average Adjuster in Gothenburg. The limits of liability of warships and other vessels which at the time of the event are owned or used by a State and are exclusively used for state purposes and not used commercially in any respect, may never be less than the limits applicable to a vessel having a tonnage of 5,000 tons. The carrier’s liability for personal injury is limited to 175,000 Special Drawing Rights for each passenger.
