Bob Watters, SSA Marine senior vice president, says the recent change in the company’s ownership structure won’t affect SSA’s plan to push ahead with the Gateway Pacific Terminal coal export project at Whatcom County’s Cherry Point.

Watters was elaborating on this Jan. 7 press release, which announces that a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs has sold its sizeable stake in FRS, parent company of Carrix, parent company of SSA.

Replacing Goldman Sachs is Mexican executive Fernando Chico Pardo.

More in the Bellingham Herald