Almost four months after a “ghost ship” ran aground in Ireland, the authorities are still trying to trace the owners. And it now looks like the Irish taxpayers are faced with a cleanup operation that could run into many millions of euros.
The 77-meter-long (approx. 250-foot) cargo ship Alta grounded on rocks off the County Cork coast in February this year after it was brought ashore by Storm Denis; the ship had been drifting across the Atlantic Ocean from Bermuda for more than a year.
