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8 | City of Victoria, Tx for the shipping of cargo along the Gulf In- tracoastal Waterway, but also enables ship- ping by rail. Someday the Port hopes to have companies such as Caterpillar shipping con- tainers directly to Victoria by barge. Trucks can only carry so much over the road, whereas barge containers can accom- modate a larger load. In this case, goods could, say, arrive in Houston and be de- livered by barge to the Port of Victoria for less than what it would cost to ship over the road. The EDC helped push for legislative allowance for the port to have heavy permit- ting, which allows for the shipping of goods without having to make changes to roads or jump time-consuming regulatory hurdles to get good from Point A to Point B. The EDC also helped secure Free Port Tax Exemption, a benefit that allows companies to have a tax break on inventory which comes in and then Caterpillar Groundbreaking Port of Victoria at Night