Transport vehicle and transport facility

A transport vehicle that travels along a front face of a container shelf provided with a plurality of levels of shelf portions arranged in a vertical direction and configured to support containers, thereby transporting the containers, the containers configured to be stackable in the vertical direction, and the transport vehicle comprising:

• a support region where a container is supported;
• a first transfer apparatus that inserts/takes the container into/out of the container shelf;
• and
• a second transfer apparatus that loads/unloads the container on/from the support region;
• wherein the transport vehicle is configured to perform in parallel both carry-in transport in which a carry-in container, which is the container to be inserted into the container shelf, is transported from an outside of the container shelf to the container shelf and carry-out transport in which a carry-out container, which is the container taken out of the container shelf, is transported from the container shelf to the outside of the container shelf,
• wherein the transport vehicle is configured to take out the carry-out container from the container shelf and support the carry-out container in the support region and to insert the carry-in container supported in the support region into the container shelf, and
• wherein the second transfer apparatus is configured such that a container can be moved to the support region so as to allow a plurality of the containers to be supported in a stacked state in the support region.