Beyond the outskirts of Turku, the Finnish countryside blurs into an autumnal tableau as TW+ heads for the rural district of Piikkio.

It is an unlikely setting for a busy maritime enterprise involving multipurpose ships and the green technology for them, but this is where it all began for agribusiness/technical entrepreneur and shipowner Hans Langh.

Now 68, Hans took over the running of the family’s Alaskartano farm at 15, a year before the death of his ailing maternal grandfather, Carl Mattsson.