All evidence shows that these enterprises are financially unviable. All of them suffer from poor administration, high overhead costs and stiff competition. The DCC does not have the administrative and managerial capacity to run them as economic ventures. Politically, it is also a problem when it comes to raising fares for the public transport company, but the role of this company in the public transportation sector is getting very insignificant and the level of fares is increasingly being determined by the market. Thus, on the whole, the performance of income generating enterprises in Dar es Salaam has been disappointing.
Privatisation is seen as the only viable way out of the present situation.