Shadow fleet

Shadow fleet - sanction evasion in the maritime domain. Article “Shadow fleet” in English Wikipedia has 76.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 321 references and 44 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.01 points.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2026 the article “Shadow fleet” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Shadow fleet”, its content was written by 61 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 108 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 34 times in English Wikipedia and cited 67 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #9896 in July 2025
• Global: #13398 in December 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #73556 in January 2026
• Global: #113617 in January 2026

There are 9 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Norwegian (no) Skyggeflåte		80
2	German (de) Schattenflotte		77.2667
3	English (en) Shadow fleet		76.2466
4	Polish (pl) Flota cieni		51.9904
5	Dutch (nl) Schaduwvloot		30.9996
6	Romanian (ro) Flotă fantomă		23.9244
7	Basque (eu) Itzalpeko ontzidi		21.1585
8	Swedish (sv) Skuggflotta		21.0278
9	Japanese (ja) シャドーフリート		5.6354

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Shadow fleet" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shadow fleet		100 378
2	German (de) Schattenflotte		28 133
3	Dutch (nl) Schaduwvloot		6 111
4	Swedish (sv) Skuggflotta		5 240
5	Japanese (ja) シャドーフリート		4 355
6	Polish (pl) Flota cieni		1 705
7	Norwegian (no) Skyggeflåte		1 346
8	Romanian (ro) Flotă fantomă		193
9	Basque (eu) Itzalpeko ontzidi		88

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Shadow fleet" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shadow fleet		7 264
2	German (de) Schattenflotte		1 543
3	Japanese (ja) シャドーフリート		499
4	Polish (pl) Flota cieni		499
5	Dutch (nl) Schaduwvloot		389
6	Swedish (sv) Skuggflotta		357
7	Norwegian (no) Skyggeflåte		123
8	Romanian (ro) Flotă fantomă		58
9	Basque (eu) Itzalpeko ontzidi		3

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Shadow fleet" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shadow fleet		61
2	German (de) Schattenflotte		28
3	Dutch (nl) Schaduwvloot		5
4	Swedish (sv) Skuggflotta		5
5	Basque (eu) Itzalpeko ontzidi		3
6	Japanese (ja) シャドーフリート		2
7	Polish (pl) Flota cieni		2
8	Norwegian (no) Skyggeflåte		1
9	Romanian (ro) Flotă fantomă		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Shadow fleet" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Schattenflotte		2
2	English (en) Shadow fleet		2
3	Romanian (ro) Flotă fantomă		1
4	Basque (eu) Itzalpeko ontzidi		0
5	Japanese (ja) シャドーフリート		0
6	Dutch (nl) Schaduwvloot		0
7	Norwegian (no) Skyggeflåte		0
8	Polish (pl) Flota cieni		0
9	Swedish (sv) Skuggflotta		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Shadow fleet" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Shadow fleet		34
2	German (de) Schattenflotte		14
3	Dutch (nl) Schaduwvloot		6
4	Polish (pl) Flota cieni		4
5	Romanian (ro) Flotă fantomă		3
6	Swedish (sv) Skuggflotta		3
7	Japanese (ja) シャドーフリート		2
8	Norwegian (no) Skyggeflåte		1
9	Basque (eu) Itzalpeko ontzidi		0

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#	Language	Value
de	German Schattenflotte
en	English Shadow fleet
eu	Basque Itzalpeko ontzidi
ja	Japanese シャドーフリート
nl	Dutch Schaduwvloot
no	Norwegian Skyggeflåte
pl	Polish Flota cieni
ro	Romanian Flotă fantomă
sv	Swedish Skuggflotta

Best Rank

English: #73556 01.2026

Global: #113617 01.2026

Best Rank

English: #9896 07.2025

Global: #13398 12.2024

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