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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