Evergreen had been doing research and survey work relating to building a container terminal at Colon even before 1994. They signed an agreement with the Panamanian government in early 1995, and when the agreement met with the approval of Panama's parliament at the end of the year, work began.
個朗貨櫃碼頭的興建計畫，長榮集團早在一九九四年前就已做過相關的調查研究，九五年初與巴拿馬政府簽訂投資意向書，直到九五年底才由國會正式通過，九六年開始動工。