The Swedish Maritime Administration is a business oriented governmental agency financed mainly by dues and fees on merchant shipping. The Swedish Maritime Administration’s most significant dues are fairway dues and pilotage dues. Fairway dues amount to approximately SEK one billion and pilotage dues to appoximately SEK 370 million per year.

In addition to fairway and pilotage dues, the Swedish Maritime Administration sets fees and dues for other products and services it renders. The most financially significant to the Administration are revenues from sales of navigational charts and publications. A price list covering all navigational chart products is produced before every season.

The Swedish Maritime Administration also sets fees for leisure boats, passing the locks in the Trollhätte Canal. There is also a tariff of fees for icebreaking on order and against compensation, which does not refer to icebreaking in the fairways, which is financed entirely by fairway dues.  All tariffs and fees are specified in Swedish Maritime Administration’s regulations.