Method and apparatus for a shipment storage apparatus

A control apparatus for a shipment storage apparatus, wherein the shipment storage apparatus comprises a storage space, and wherein the storage space has a plurality of shipment retainers arranged in it, the control apparatus, comprising at least one processor and at least one memory having program instructions, wherein the at least one memory and the program instructions are configured, together with the at least one processor, to cause the control apparatus to perform:

• obtaining access authorization information, wherein the access authorization information authorises a user to access one or more of the shipment retainers,
• determining whether access by the user to one or more of the shipment retainers can be granted, at least in part on the basis of the obtained access authorization information,
• only if it has been determined that access by the user to one or more of the shipment retainers can be granted:
• granting or causing the granting of access of the user to the storage space and
• determining or causing the determining of whether the user accesses only the one or more of the shipment retainers that the access authorization information authorises the user to access.