Does the liability of a carrier of goods on an ocean vessel have limitations?
@According to the Civil Code, compensation for damage is assessed within the extent of damages that have a legally sufficient causal relationship with default, and includes special damages such as profit from resale, besides general damages. Therefore, in case of loss or damage to goods that results from negligence of their carrier by sea, too, the carrier should be liable to pay compensation for any such loss or damage. @However, for ocean freight forwarders that deal in a large quantity of goods at an inexpensive rate, claims for big indemnity or those for special damage from each of the claimers, including consignees, could become a great financial burden and could also protract a conflict on compensation assessment in such a case. @In the case of an ocean vessel, therefore, claimable amounts are in principle fixed in accordance with the market price of goods at a scheduled time and place of discharging as per contract, and stylized in a direction toward exclusion of special damage,
