In a transport apparatus for the low-pressure transforming of a stream of bottles or the like into at least two separate single rows, comprising a multiple-lane feed conveyor, a plurality of single-lane discharge conveyors and an acceleration conveyor arranged therebetween and having a speed which increases in the transport direction, a plurality of diagonally oriented guides are provided at a distance from one another across the acceleration conveyor, which guides in each case guide a sub-stream of the stream of bottles coming from the feed conveyor across the sections of the common acceleration conveyor.