According to Japanese media sources, Kodo-kai, a yakuza faction in the Yamaguchi-gumi group, earns large revenues by controlling the stevedoring and warehousing companies at the port.

It has special district authority over the Port of Nagoya, which includes facilities in four different cities and one village.

[6] The president of the NPA alternates every two years between the mayor of Nagoya and the governor of Aichi Prefecture.

Nearby is also an amusement park and the now-retired Antarctic survey ship Fuji which moors at the Port of Nagoya as a museum of the South Pole and its journeys there.

The Isewangan Expressway includes three bridges, collectively known as the Meikō Triton, which span the port.