أوقفوا عملية شراء 81 باص (مالطي) إلى السودان

Quote: The bendy buses will be exported to Sudan after a Maltese company offered €601,200 excluding VAT for the Mercedes Citaro left behind in Malta by Arriva. The expression of interest for the sale of the bendy buses closed on February 14 and three offers were submitted. The company with the highest offer has to sign an acceptance letter and make a deposit by February 21. It will then be bound to export the bendy buses and all spare parts within four weeks. Transport Malta acquired the bendy buses free of charge. The funds from their sale will be used by Malta Public Transport Services.

Quote: The 81 bendy buses offered up for sale earlier this month have been bought, a spokesperson for the Transport Minister confirmed this morning. The buses were inherited by the government when it took over the bus service from Arriva last month. The 81 Mercedes Citaro 18m articulated buses were offered up for sale in ‘tale quale’ condition. One of the conditions of the sale is that the bendy-buses cannot be used locally. No warranty or guarantee for the buses was given to the buyer. In a statement issued this evening, the government said the bendy buses will be exported to Sudan after a Maltese company offered €601,200 (excluding VAT) for the vehicles. The call for expressions of interest closed on 14 February; three offers were received. The chosen company will be signing the acceptance letter and pay a deposit by Friday. It is obliged to export the buses within four weeks.

Quote: And the BUYER is? Please don't leave us in suspense. We would like to know who the idiot is that bought these 81 headaches. And how much did these 81 headaches sell for? As everyone can see, we bought these Bendy Buses as is and look what happened. Thank you AG.

Quote: يا عبد اللطيف يجب فتح مليون بوست هنا وفي كل المواقع المقروءة انا ملأت الفيسبوك عسى ولعل ارجو ترجمة الموضوع وبعثه للراكوبة وبقية المواقع حريات الميدان جني

Quote: للراكوبة وبقية المواقع حريات الميدان جني

Quote: صديقية عبد اللطيف بكري لو البصات دي دركسونا يمين واتنين بستم وعايزا عمره حيشتروها حيشرتوها وتشوف عينك ياخي الفساد صار مستشري ومتفشي كما الملاريا ولا حد بيخاف من المحاسبه وعينك عينك السرق بتتم ربنا يحفظ ما تبقي من السودان لحدت ما نشوف حل

Quote: نثني وقف استيراد هذه البصات فوراً وبدون أي تسويف أو مبررات لا نريدها في السودان ..... انتهى

Quote: In July 2011 Arriva commenced operating a ten-year concession to operate all scheduled bus services on Malta and Gozo.[88] Arriva held a 67% shareholding with the local Tumas Group owning the remaining 33%.[89] The main fleet of Arriva Malta was formed of 172 new King Long buses.[90][91] These are supported on high-density routes by 68 former Arriva London Mercedes-Benz O530G Citaro articulated buses. Ten hybrid Optare Solos and two Bluebird mini-buses for use in the city of Valletta were also purchased[92] Arriva has been harshly criticized both by commuters and by the government agency Transport Malta for consistently failing to keep up standards. On 14 November 2012, Arriva was harshly reprimanded by Transport Malta and given until the end of the month to bring up all its routes to 100% efficiency before TM deploys its own shuttles at Arriva's expense.[93] In August 2013, the Government of Malta instructed Arriva Malta to remove the articulated buses from service, pending investigation following three major fire outbreaks in the span of 48 hours.[94] The fires destroyed the buses and in one case caused extensive damage to some nearby vehicles belonging to MaltaPost, the country's postal operator. Nobody was injured in these incidents. Like in the UK when the same buses had caught fire, these buses became a popular joke in conversations and social media sites.[95] By the end of December 2013 Arriva had run up losses of €50 million in two and a half years.[96] On 1 January 2014 Arriva ceased operations in Malta having been nationalised by the Maltese government, with a new bus operator to take over their operations in the near future

Quote: ( Is this some way to reduce the number of refugees from Sudan? They are going to burn alive now)

Quote: export the ‘bendy buses’ as well as ‘spare parts’ to Sudan يعني البصات بالإضافة إلى الأسبيرات .

Quote: أما الهيكل يصهروا الحديد ويصدروه للخارج بيجيب قروش كتيرة ... .

Quote: أعلنت ولاية الخرطوم انه لا صلة ولا علم لها بما يتم التداول حوله بالمواقع الالكترونية عن صفقة تمت بين المواصلات المالطية وإحدى الشركات السودانية لشراء (80) بص مرسيدس مستعملة في طريقها للخرطوم وأن الولاية لم تتفاوض أو تتفق مع أي جهة أجنبية أو سودانية بخصوص تلك البصات وانها كولاية إندهشت بان البصات في طريقها للخرطوم . وأكدت الولاية ان خطتها المعلنة فيما يلي البصات كواحدة من المواعين المطروحة للمساهمة في النقل هي استيراد بصات جديدة إلتزاماً بقرار الحكومة الاتحادية الذي يمنع استيراد السيارات المستعملة .

Quote: The relocation of 81 bendy buses to Sudan is expected to go down like a ton of bricks with the Sudanese, who are none too happy with the prospect of the unwieldy 18 metre buses snaking through their streets A Sudanese journalist questioned why the rejected buses are going to be used in Sudan given their disposition to drive people round the bend. “That's all we need bendy buses to clog up the streets. These buses weren’t a success in the UK nor Malta, why would they be so in Sudan? It will become clearer once they are on the road, but roads are narrow plus the usual congestion, it won’t go down too well,” the journalist told The Malta Independent. London Mayor Boris Johnson famously boasted that the “jack-knifed diplodocus” are “now clogging up the streets of Malta,” the Arriva first started operating in Malta using some of London’s rejected bendy buses. The bendy buses were sold by the Maltese government for €601,200 for export to Sudan. The bendy buses were taken off the road last year after three of them caught fire. A report on the fires pinpointed diesel spillage and poor cooling as the cause. With temperatures sometimes hitting the 42°C mark in Sudan, it may be a case of out of frying pan and into the fire for the bendy buses. It is "an idiotic move to buy cheap vehicles just to showoff because bendy buses are a first here! No official nor press has said anything yet,” one Sudanese commented