For private equity investors, the final test is whether a venture will generate sufficient cash flow to service the debt they plan to pile on it in order to pay themselves big dividends and recoup their initial investment--to "get their bait back, " in Wall Street parlance.
The BBC's Mame Less Camara, in Dakar, says that the ferry probably resumed service before it had undergone sufficient checks because the Senegalese Government wanted to show goodwill towards the separatist movement of Casamance, which whom it was supposed to resume talks.