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Chennai Port , formerly known as Madras Port , is the second largest port of India, behind the Nhava Sheva Port , and the largest port in the Bay of Bengal . It is the third oldest port among the 12 major ports of India with official port operations beginning in 1881, although maritime trade started much earlier in 1639 on the undeveloped shore. It is an artificial and all-weather port with wet docks. Once a major travel port, it become a major container port in the post-Independence era. The port remains a
Chennai / ˈ tʃ ɛ n n aɪ / ( formerly known as Madras i / m ə ˈ d r ɑː s / or / - ˈ d r æ s / ) is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu . Located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal , it is a major cultural, economic and educational centre. Chennai is known as the "Detroit of India" for its automobile industry . It is the fourth-largest city and fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the country and 36th-largest urban area in the world.
The city is host to the third-largest expatriate population in India after Mumbai and Delhi , with 35,000 in 2009 and steadily climbing to 82,790, in 2011. Tourism guide publisher Lonely Planet named Chennai as one of the top ten cities in the world to visit in 2015. Chennai is ranked as a beta-level city in the Global Cities Index and was ranked the best city in India by India Today in the 2014 annual Indian city survey. Chennai has also been named in the "hottest" cities to live in for 2015 by BBC among g