Company’s Liability/ Time Limits for Property Damage and Personal Injury Claims. (a) The provisions and limitations as contained in the laws of Switzerland (incorporating the Athens Convention Relating to the Carriage of Passengers and Their Luggage by Sea, 1974, the “Athens Convention”) and the protocols thereto of 1976 and 1990 and the Strasbourg Convention on the Limitation of Liability in Inland Navigation, 1988 (the “CLNI Convention”) apply.
(b) Company shall be liable in accordance with the provisions and limitations as contained in the laws of Switzerland (incorporating the Athens Convention and the CLNI Convention). Swiss law in most cases limits Company’s liability for death, personal injury to no more than SDR 175,000 (one hundred seventy-five thousand) per passenger, and for lost or damaged property to no more than SDR 1,800 (one thousand eight hundred) per passenger.
(c) Company shall have the right at all times to avail itself of and have the benefit of any and all applicable global limitation of liability or exoneration of liability rules, regulations or statutes, specifically including the provisions of the Strasbourg Convention on the Limitation of Liability of owners of Inland Navigation Vessels (CLNI), 1988, as adopted by Switzerland, as well as of the International Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, 1976, with revisions and amendments, if and as applicable, and by those other and further limitations of liability set forth in the statutory and general maritime law of Switzerland, as the law governing the contract: 60.000 (Sixty thousand) units of account (also known as Special Drawing Rights, or S.D.R.'s) multiplied by the number of Passengers the Vessel, according to its certificate, is allowed to accommodate; not to exceed in any event more than 25 (twenty-five) million units of account, to apply to the aggregate of all claims which arise on any distinct occasion against carrier, with respect to damages suffered on a seagoing vessel and, as regards damages suffered on an inland navigation vessel, not to be less than 720,000 (seven hundred twenty thousand) units of account and not to exceed (i) 3 (three) million units of account for vessels with an authorized passenger transport capacity of not more than 100; (ii) 6 (six) million units of account for vessels with an authorized passenger transport capacity of not more than 180; and (iii) 12 (twelve) million units of account for vessels with an authorized passenger transport capacity of more than 180. Company will provide a copy of the Athens co...
