Suez Canal

The  was a waterway which hosted package and passenger ship transport.

In 1887, the SS Matilda Briggs passed through the Suez Canal on a journey from Tilbury to Bombay via Port Said. (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire)

In the 1950s, packages were shipped to London via the Suez Canal, including a series of packages containing a dangerous extraterrestrial fungus isolated by Project Hermod. (AUDIO: Parasite) Around the same time, Norton Folgate joked to Lizbeth Hayhoe that something would need to be done about the canal. (AUDIO: Madam, I'm) Steven Taylor later mentioned the "Suez crisis" as a great historical event of the 1950s. (AUDIO: An Ordinary Life)

In 1988, the Suez Canal was one of the stops made by the Neptune on its around-the-world journey. (PROSE: Dateline to Deadline)

Behind the scenes
In real life, the Suez crisis was over Egyptian nationalisation of the Suez Canal in 1957, which the British and French colonial powers did not want to happen. As far as we know, no extraterrestrial fungi were involved.