Leevac acquires Quality Shipyards
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Leevac Shipyards, LLC, through its newly created subsidiary Leevac Shipyards Houma, LLC, has completed the acquisition of substantially all assets of Quality Shipyards, Inc., Houma LA, from Tidewater Marine, LLC. The acquisition includes 35 acres located on 2,500 feet of waterfront along the intracoastal waterway, four dr y docks (the largest measuring 4,200 tons of capacity), 100,000 square feet of covered production facilities and several large track cranes. Leevac President & CEO Christian Vaccari, said, “Three years ago, Leevac entered into the repair business with the opening of our Lake Charles location. Listening to our customers’ requests for a repair facility east of Lake Charles prompted our search. When the opportunity arose for us to buy the Quality facility, it made perfect sense. The location, management team, workforce and assets combined with our successful business relationship with Tidewater made this an easy decision for us. “The Houma facility is located closer to many of the shore based operations of our customers who operate in the Gulf of Mexico and inland waterways and also provides us some geographic diversification for our repair business. Additionally, we plan to make investments in the facility that will allow us to expand our new construction business.” Billy Brown, Tidewater’s Vice President for Engineering and Technical Services, said, “Tidewater has worked with Leevac on numerous new construction projects, including the LDS 300 DE series of deepwater PSVs. We consider Chris and the rest of the Leevac team to be high quality professionals and we look forward to continuing to work with Leevac on our on-going new construction projects. We also look forward to developing a ship repair relationship with Leevac.” Larry Vauclin will assume the role as Vice President and General Manager of Leevac Shipyards Houma. In addition to his new role, Vauclin has been leading the transition of ownership since the beginning of formal discussions with Tidewater. Vauclin has an impressive 52-year shipyard career. Prior to joining Leevac, he was Vice President of the Central Division at Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. The move to President and GM of Leevac Houma represents a homecoming of sorts. Vauclin’s prior experience includes managing Quality Shipyards in Houma (the same yard he will be managing now for Leevac) for over 27 years.