Belgian police say they are almost certain they have CCTV images of the lorry and driver that dropped a container carrying 35 immigrants at a UK-bound ferry.
Crews discovered the group - thought to be victims of human trafficking - when "banging and screaming" was heard at Tilbury Docks in Essex.
One man was found dead and others were rushed to hospital suffering from severe dehydration and hypothermia.
Interpol and other international forces are now helping Essex Police trace the lorry's route across Europe and find the suspected traffickers.
Peter De Waele, a spokesman for Belgium's federal police, told Sky News that detectives were checking "every image" of CCTV from Zeebrugge port.
"We have a lot of cameras and we are very hopeful for having information about identification of the driver.
Police at Tilbury Docks "When you know that in this area there are a lot of cameras, you know also that we have plenty of information about the truck and the driver, and the firm who put the container in Zeebrugge."
Mr De Waele said the container was only at the busy port for about an hour and police believe the victims were probably already inside when it arrived.
Essex Police have launched a "homicide" investigation after the death of the male immigrant and detectives said charges could include murder or manslaughter.
Superintendent Trevor Roe said the probe would "span a number of countries".
Seven ambulances rushed the immigrants to three different hospitals when the alarm was raised early on Saturday morning.
Among them, 18 were taken to Basildon Hospital with dehydration and hypothermia, two in a serious but not life-threatening condition.
The hospital has now said the group - which included seven children - are "medically fit enough" to be released.
Basildon Hospital says 18 of the group can be discharged (File Pic) Information on the ages of the immigrants or the relationship between them has not yet been released.
The group were found at 7.35am on Saturday when the Norsteam, a commercial ship run by P&O Ferries, was being unloaded in Tilbury.
The container was loaded onto a ship in Zeebrugge Natalie Hardy, a company spokeswoman, said the ship had travelled overnight from Belgium and was carrying 64 containers, 72 trailers and five lorries and drivers.
"When they went to unload containers there was a noise heard, a banging. One unfortunately was dead and others were taken to hospital."
James Brokenshire MP, immigration and security minister, has called the incident a "reminder of the often devastating human consequences of illegal migration" and said gangs are dealing in a "brutal trade in human lives".
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