title: A Category “Public Order” and Limitations on Party Autonomy in Contracts for the Carriage of Passengers by Sea
abstract: This article attempts to research the purpose, the meaning and the essence of the category “public order” in the legal regulation and practice of law enforcement in the sphere of passengers’ sea shipping. In the first part of the article, the authors consider the role of the public (imperative) element in the legal regulation of passengers’ sea shipping. It is paid attention to the significant segment of the state and the supranational administrative regulation in the modern legal basis of such 
journal: Lex Portus