Illustration: At a Japanese container terminal, a dockworker guides a crane lowering a freight container onto a waiting truck. Behind him, a large cargo ship sits alongside the quay with orderly stacks of containers covering its deck; another loaded vessel heads through the harbor entrance toward open water.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

海かい運うん

kaiun

maritime shipping

Example sentences

  1. 海運かいうん会社かいしゃに勤つとめています。

    I work for a shipping company.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 紀きノ川河口付近かわかこうふきんを抑おさえることから、海運かいうんや貿易ぼうえきにも携たずさわっていたと考かんがえられる。

    It is believed that Saikashu were also involved in marine transportation and trade as they controlled the area near the estuary of the Kino-kawa River.

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

  3. 肥料ひりょう、銀行ぎんこう、紡績ぼうせき、貿易ぼうえき、海運かいうん、新聞しんぶん、桟橋さんばし、鉄道てつどうなどの経営けいえいを手てがけ、今日きょうの多おおくの名門企業めいもんきぎょうの前身ぜんしんを築きずいた。

    He conducted many businesses such as fertilizer dealing, banking, spinning, trading, shipping, dock management, and railway management, and built the foundations of today’s many prestigious companies.

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

Kanji in 海運

  • 海sea; oceanOnカイKunうみ
  • 運carry; luckOnウンKunはこぶ

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