A spacing support for packs for rod-shaped articles, the spacing support comprising a pair of side walls extending from a bottom wall, thereby forming a housing for supporting and accommodating a plurality of packs arranged in two adjacent rows, the housing comprising an access aperture through which the packs may be introduced into and extracted from the housing;
- wherein at least one of the side walls comprises a plurality of positioning elements projecting towards an inside of the housing, wherein the positioning elements are configured to delimit positioning sections in which the packs may be held, wherein the positioning elements are made as one predefined strip connected with the at least one of the side walls and a further wall of the housing, and wherein positioning elements of the plurality of positioning elements are formed in a Z-shape.