Japan ordered building of dredgers needed for Atsuta at the Dutch shipyard of Conrad at Haarlem according to the Dutch newspaper Haarlem’s Dagblad dated Monday 4 April 1899

An item reported that the yard received some weeks earlier an order of the council of Aichi Ken, Japan for dredgers necessary for the harbour of Atsuta near Nagoya with an estimated value of more as 450,000 yen. The Dutch consulate pointed the firm of Yokohama acting as an intermediary out the high quality of Dutch dredgers. The yard send in July 1898 an own representative to Japan and who was also involved in this deal.