Suez Canal

American  

noun

1. a canal in NE Egypt, cutting across the Isthmus of Suez and connecting the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. 107 miles (172 km) long.

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Suez Canal British  

noun

1. a sea-level canal in NE Egypt, crossing the Isthmus of Suez and linking the Mediterranean with the Red Sea: built (1854–69) by de Lesseps with French and Egyptian capital; nationalized in 1956 by the Egyptians. Length: 163 km (101 miles)

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Suez Canal Cultural  

1. A canal connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas, completed in 1869 and long controlled by Great Britain. The opera Aïda by Giuseppe Verdi was written to honor the opening of the canal. (See Suez Canal crisis.)

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Example Sentences

It impacts an even larger percentage of global container ships, which travel from the Bab el-Mandeb up through the Suez Canal at the Northern end of the Red Sea.

From Barron's

Maersk, for example, had resumed some of its regular service through the Suez Canal in mid-January, some two years after avoiding that route because of the Houthi crisis.

From MarketWatch

Choking off that waterway would mean that vessels could no longer access the Suez Canal via the Red Sea, effectively rendering one of the precious few ways of bypassing the Strait of Hormuz largely useless.

From The Wall Street Journal

France, Greece and Italy have said they are sending war ships to the eastern Mediterranean, where the Suez Canal provides passage to the Red Sea and beyond to the Gulf.

From Barron's

Huge oil tankers usually headed from the Gulf to East Asia can carry about 2 million barrels of oil, while smaller tankers headed to the Suez Canal are able to carry about 1 million barrels.

From MarketWatch