Illustration: At an open-sided regional distribution depot, crates of vegetables arrive from a farm truck on one side while workers sort them onto wheeled carts in the middle. On the other side, a driver loads smaller mixed consignments into delivery vans.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

物ぶつ流りゅう

butsuryuu

logistics, movement of goods

Example sentences

  1. 江戸時代えどじだいを通つうじて、京都きょうとと伏見ふしみとを結むすぶ主要しゅような物流ぶつりゅう手段しゅだんとして多おおくの舟ふねが行いき交かっていた。

    During the Edo period, many boats were used as an important means of distribution that linked Kyoto and Fushimi.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. しかし、1989年ねんに舞鶴若狭自動車道まいづるわかさじどうしゃどう・舞鶴西まいづるにしインターチェンジが開通かいつうしたことにより、物流ぶつりゅうの要ようとして注目ちゅうもくされている。

    However, it is attracting attention as a key logistic center, due to the opening of the Maizuru-nishi Interchange of the Maizuru Wakasa Expressway in 1989.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. また難波津なんばつの東ひがし、上町台地うえまちだいちの先端せんたんからは16棟とうもの倉庫群そうこぐんの遺構いこうが発掘はっくつされており、難波津なんばつが当時とうじの物流ぶつりゅうの一大拠点いちだいきょてんであったことが明あきらかになっている。

    Ancient structural remnants of 16 warehouses were excavated in the head area of the Uemachi plateau in the east of Naniwatsu, revealing that Naniwatsu was a big distribution center at that time.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 物流

  • 物thing; objectOnブツ・モツKunもの・もの-
  • 流current; a sinkOnリュウ・ルKunながれる・ながれ・ながす

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