diff --git a/Classes/Hooks/Datahandler/CommandMapPostProcessingHook.php b/Classes/Hooks/Datahandler/CommandMapPostProcessingHook.php
index 28b7b57b..a63bcd15 100644
--- a/Classes/Hooks/Datahandler/CommandMapPostProcessingHook.php
+++ b/Classes/Hooks/Datahandler/CommandMapPostProcessingHook.php
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 use B13\Container\Domain\Factory\ContainerFactory;
 use B13\Container\Domain\Factory\Exception;
 use B13\Container\Domain\Service\ContainerService;
+use B13\Container\Tca\Registry;
 use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Attribute\Autoconfigure;
 use TYPO3\CMS\Backend\Utility\BackendUtility;
 use TYPO3\CMS\Core\DataHandling\DataHandler;
@@ -24,8 +25,11 @@
 #[Autoconfigure(public: true)]
 class CommandMapPostProcessingHook
 {
-    public function __construct(protected ContainerFactory $containerFactory, protected ContainerService $containerService)
-    {
+    public function __construct(
+        protected ContainerFactory $containerFactory,
+        protected ContainerService $containerService,
+        protected Registry $tcaRegistry
+    ) {
     }
 
     public function processCmdmap_postProcess(string $command, string $table, $id, $value, DataHandler $dataHandler, $pasteUpdate, $pasteDatamap): void
@@ -145,7 +149,17 @@ protected function copyOrMoveChildren(int $origUid, int $newId, int $containerId
                 && isset($allChildren[0])
                 && (int)$targetLanguage !== (int)$allChildren[0]['sys_language_uid'];
             $children = [];
+            // the target of a column is the last child of the previous column (see
+            // ContainerService::getNewContentElementAtTopTargetInColumn()), so the columns have to be
+            // processed in the configured order: the children are ordered by sorting, and a column
+            // whose child has a low sorting must not be processed before the column it targets.
+            // children with a colPos that is not configured for the container are moved last
             $colPosVals = $container->getChildrenColPos();
+            $availableColPosVals = $this->tcaRegistry->getAllAvailableColumnsColPos($container->getCType());
+            $colPosVals = array_values(array_merge(
+                array_intersect($availableColPosVals, $colPosVals),
+                array_diff($colPosVals, $availableColPosVals)
+            ));
             foreach ($colPosVals as $colPos) {
                 $childrenByColPos = $container->getChildrenByColPos($colPos);
                 if (!$chainAfterPrevious) {
diff --git a/Tests/Functional/Datahandler/DefaultLanguage/ContainerTest.php b/Tests/Functional/Datahandler/DefaultLanguage/ContainerTest.php
index 8e79b212..eccd2277 100644
--- a/Tests/Functional/Datahandler/DefaultLanguage/ContainerTest.php
+++ b/Tests/Functional/Datahandler/DefaultLanguage/ContainerTest.php
@@ -414,4 +414,35 @@ public function copyContainerWithLanguageAsStringKeepsCopiedChildrenSorting(): v
         $this->dataHandler->process_cmdmap();
         self::assertCSVDataSet(__DIR__ . '/Fixtures/Container/CopyContainerKeepsSortingOfChildrenResult.csv');
     }
+
+    /**
+     * children are moved column by column, the target of a column is the last child of the previous
+     * column. the children are fetched ordered by sorting, so if the child with the lowest sorting is
+     * not in the first column, the target of the following columns is a child that has not been moved
+     * yet and the child ends up on the source page.
+     *
+     * such a sorting is inconsistent and is reported by the container:sorting command, but it can be
+     * the result of copy and move operations or of an import, so a container has to be moved completely
+     * in that case, too.
+     *
+     * @see https://github.com/b13/container/issues/291
+     * @see https://github.com/b13/container/issues/738
+     */
+    #[Test]
+    public function moveContainerOtherPageOnTopWithChildSortingBeforePreviousColumn(): void
+    {
+        $this->importCSVDataSet(__DIR__ . '/Fixtures/Container/MoveContainerOtherPageOnTop.csv');
+        // child in the second column gets a sorting lower than the children of the first column
+        $this->getConnectionPool()->getConnectionForTable('tt_content')->update('tt_content', ['sorting' => 96], ['uid' => 4]);
+        $cmdmap = [
+            'tt_content' => [
+                1 => [
+                    'move' => 3,
+                ],
+            ],
+        ];
+        $this->dataHandler->start([], $cmdmap, $this->backendUser);
+        $this->dataHandler->process_cmdmap();
+        self::assertCSVDataSet(__DIR__ . '/Fixtures/Container/MoveContainerOtherPageOnTopWithChildSortingBeforePreviousColumnResult.csv');
+    }
 }
diff --git a/Tests/Functional/Datahandler/DefaultLanguage/Fixtures/Container/MoveContainerOtherPageOnTopWithChildSortingBeforePreviousColumnResult.csv b/Tests/Functional/Datahandler/DefaultLanguage/Fixtures/Container/MoveContainerOtherPageOnTopWithChildSortingBeforePreviousColumnResult.csv
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..75322627
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/Functional/Datahandler/DefaultLanguage/Fixtures/Container/MoveContainerOtherPageOnTopWithChildSortingBeforePreviousColumnResult.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+"pages"
+,"uid","pid","title"
+,1,0,""
+,3,0,""
+"tt_content"
+,"uid","pid","CType","header","sorting","sys_language_uid","colPos","tx_container_parent","l18n_parent"
+,1,3,"b13-2cols-with-header-container","container",256,0,0,0,0
+,2,3,"header","col1-first",320,0,200,1,0
+,3,3,"header","col1-second",384,0,200,1,0
+,4,3,"header","col2-first",448,0,201,1,0
+,10,3,"header","outside",512,0,0,0,0