The European Union's border security agency Frontex has collected enough boats and aircraft to run operations in the Mediterranean, where the influx of African migrants arriving by sea is expected to increase as the summer nears.
The Warsaw-based agency now has 19 aircraft, 24 helicopters, 107 vessels and other technical equipment collected from the 27 EU member states.
Frontex - created in 2005 to co-ordinate EU border security – wrote to EU capitals earlier this year asking for equipment to deal with the new streams of migrants expected in April, May and June, especially to the Canary Islands, Italy's Lampedusa and Malta.
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