A method for monitoring and controlling a loading rate of a transport section in a filling line, comprising: detecting a container loading over a certain region at an incoming region of said transport section; a simulation of a container flow in real time using the detected container loading in the incoming region of the transport section and a transport speed, the simulation comprising: entering said detected value for the container loading into a shift register; and synchronizing a shift register clock with the transport speed, so that the shift register content (DW0, DW1,...) represents the container loading on the transport section, wherein the shift register comprises a plurality of differently clocked shift registers (SR1, SR2, SR3) corresponding to the number of partial sections (T1, T2, T3), and wherein the clocks of the differently clocked shift registers (SR1, SR2, SR3) are synchronized with the transport speeds of the partial sections (T1, T2, T3), characterized in that transport section comprises several individually speed-controlled consecutive partial sections (T1, T2, T3), the method further comprising: calculating a virtual representation of a container loading at a transfer point (Ü1, Ü2) between two adjacent partial sections by calculating a virtual position and an arrival time of one or several containers at the transfer point (Ü1, Ü2), and shifting the virtual representation at the transfer point (Ü1, Ü2) to a following shift register of the subsequent partial section of the transport section. detecting a container loading over a certain region at an incoming region of said transport section; a simulation of a container flow in real time using the detected container loading in the incoming region of the transport section and a transport speed, the simulation comprising: entering said detected value for the container loading into a shift register; and synchronizing a shift register clock with the transport speed, so that the shift register content (DW0, DW1,...) represents the container loading on the transport section, wherein the shift register comprises a plurality of differently clocked shift registers (SR1, SR2, SR3) corresponding to the number of partial sections (T1, T2, T3), and wherein the clocks of the differently clocked shift registers (SR1, SR2, SR3) are synchronized with the transport speeds of the partial sections (T1, T2, T3), characterized in that transport section comprises several individually speed-controlled consecutive partial sections (T1, T2, T3), entering said detected value for the container loading into a shift register; and synchronizing a shift register clock with the transport speed, so that the shift register content (DW0, DW1,...) represents the container loading on the transport section, wherein the shift register comprises a plurality of differently clocked shift registers (SR1, SR2, SR3) corresponding to the number of partial sections (T1, T2, T3), and wherein the clocks of the differently clocked shift registers (SR1, SR2, SR3) are synchronized with the transport speeds of the partial sections (T1, T2, T3), characterized in that transport section comprises several individually speed-controlled consecutive partial sections (T1, T2, T3), the method further comprising: calculating a virtual representation of a container loading at a transfer point (Ü1, Ü2) between two adjacent partial sections by calculating a virtual position and an arrival time of one or several containers at the transfer point (Ü1, Ü2), and shifting the virtual representation at the transfer point (Ü1, Ü2) to a following shift register of the subsequent partial section of the transport section. calculating a virtual representation of a container loading at a transfer point (Ü1, Ü2) between two adjacent partial sections by calculating a virtual position and an arrival time of one or several containers at the transfer point (Ü1, Ü2), and shifting the virtual representation at the transfer point (Ü1, Ü2) to a following shift register of the subsequent partial section of the transport section.