Apparatus for the smokeless pushing and transportation of hot coke. A bucket whose interior volume is large enough to receive the entire contents of a coke oven is positioned in alignment with a coke oven whcih is to be emptied while a cover on top of the bucket, a hood extending from the cover to a coke guide, and the coke guide itself all define a space closed off from the outer atmosphere and through which the coke travels while being pushed from the coke oven into the bucket. After the bucket is filled with this coke, it is transported on a car which carries the bucket to a bunker where the bucket is raised to the top of the bunker into which the ocntents of the bucket are emptied so that dry-quenching of the coke can take place in the bunker. The space between the bucket and the bunker is also closed off from the outer atmosphere during charging of the bunker with coke from the bucket. Then the empty bucket is returned to the next oven which is ready for pushing. During pushing of coke from an oven into the bucket, gases, vapors, and particulate matter which might otherwise escape to the outer atmosphere are withdrawn from the space through which the coke travels from the oven to the buckets, and this withdrawn matter is cleaned in a suitable scrubber so that only clean gases are released to the outer atmosphere.