A container handling facility, with at least two conveying devices, each circulating in different but adjacent facility areas (16, 18, 20), each having a multitude of container grippers, and in each instance pairwise defining a transfer area (40, 42) to which both adjacent conveying devices together are tangent, wherein the at least two adjacent facility areas (16, 18, 20) are each delimited by a machine protection and are accessible separately from each other, and wherein the at least two facility areas (16, 18, 20) are at least partially separable from each other by a movable partition element (12, 14), which is insertable between the at least two conveying devices into a transport path and/or transfer path of conveyed containers or which is removable from there, - wherein, upon the at least two conveying devices situated in the particular facility areas (16, 18, 20) being separated from each other or upon the transport path and/or transfer path between the conveying devices being cleared, the partition element (12, 14) follows a movement direction that is oriented substantially perpendicular to the transport plane or transport direction of the containers, - and wherein, upon the at least two conveying devices situated in the particular facility areas (16, 18, 20) being separated from each other, the partition element (12, 14) largely shields the container grippers of at least one of the two conveying devices in the transfer area (40, 42) from the facility area (16, 18, 20) in which the particular other conveying device is situated, characterised in that the partition element (12, 14) is formed by at least two separate partition wall sections (46, 48) that are shiftable independently of one another in approximately vertical direction, which partition wall sections (46, 48) are each advanceable from above and below into the transport plane in a shifting direction that is oriented substantially perpendicular to the transport plane or transport direction. wherein the at least two adjacent facility areas (16, 18, 20) are each delimited by a machine protection and are accessible separately from each other, and wherein the at least two facility areas (16, 18, 20) are at least partially separable from each other by a movable partition element (12, 14), which is insertable between the at least two conveying devices into a transport path and/or transfer path of conveyed containers or which is removable from there, - wherein, upon the at least two conveying devices situated in the particular facility areas (16, 18, 20) being separated from each other or upon the transport path and/or transfer path between the conveying devices being cleared, the partition element (12, 14) follows a movement direction that is oriented substantially perpendicular to the transport plane or transport direction of the containers, - and wherein, upon the at least two conveying devices situated in the particular facility areas (16, 18, 20) being separated from each other, the partition element (12, 14) largely shields the container grippers of at least one of the two conveying devices in the transfer area (40, 42) from the facility area (16, 18, 20) in which the particular other conveying device is situated, - wherein, upon the at least two conveying devices situated in the particular facility areas (16, 18, 20) being separated from each other or upon the transport path and/or transfer path between the conveying devices being cleared, the partition element (12, 14) follows a movement direction that is oriented substantially perpendicular to the transport plane or transport direction of the containers, - and wherein, upon the at least two conveying devices situated in the particular facility areas (16, 18, 20) being separated from each other, the partition element (12, 14) largely shields the container grippers of at least one of the two conveying devices in the transfer area (40, 42) from the facility area (16, 18, 20) in which the particular other conveying device is situated, characterised in that the partition element (12, 14) is formed by at least two separate partition wall sections (46, 48) that are shiftable independently of one another in approximately vertical direction, which partition wall sections (46, 48) are each advanceable from above and below into the transport plane in a shifting direction that is oriented substantially perpendicular to the transport plane or transport direction.