Conveying mechanism with pushing-off device that can be driven counter to the direction of travel

A conveyor apparatus with a plurality of transport units movable along a guide means, on an upper side of said transport units there being provided in each case a pusher means which can be driven contrary to a direction of travel of the transport units so that unit load items can be picked up and/or discharged so that the unit load items drop vertically down into a receiving means with substantially no relative horizontal speed, characterised in that the pusher means is drivable at a pushing speed which is at least as great as a speed of travel of the transport means concerned.