A roundup of the latest news on Tuesday

PostNord to deliver final letters in Denmark

Today marks the final day on which you can send and receive letters in Denmark with PostNord, the successor of the former national post service Post Danmark.

The company announced earlier in the year that it will switch to a parcels-only service amid protracted financial struggles.

Letter delivery in Denmark will rely on courier service Dao from 2026 onwards.

Hans Peter Nissen, chief executive of Dao, said the change is unlikely to require major adjustments as the company has already taken over the majority of letter deliveries during 2025.

“We expect our total volume of delivered items including parcels, magazines, newspapers and letters to increase from around 150 million in 2025 to about 205–210 million in 2026,” he told news wire Ritzau.

“We expect around 70 million of these to be letters,” he said.

READ ALSO: Is it possible to send letters in Denmark without PostNord?

Companies flee from billion-krone government CO2 capture tender

Only one out of ten potential bidders remains in the running for a major public tender for capturing and storing CO2.

That comes after municipally owned waste company Energnist and energy company A2X withdrew from a bid which they had been working on together, Ritzau writes.

That leaves only Aalborg Portland still in contention for the billion-krone project to capture 2.3 million tonnes of CO2.

“We have invested a significant amount of money and worked for a long time to make this succeed. Our project is complete, and everything has been tied up both technically and commercially,” Peter Harbo, partner at A2X, told finance media Børsen.

“But the conditions mean that it is simply not feasible at the moment,” he said. 

Problems cited by the companies include excessive risk related to fines for failure to meet CO2 capture deadlines and a tight timetable for the tender bidding, which has been pushed back several times and now expires on January 27th.

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Liberal party wants to extend tax-free savings rule for kids

The Liberal (Venstre) party wants to extend the tax advantages of child savings accounts to include providers outside the traditional banking sector.

Under the proposal, parents would be entitled to a tax break if they place their child’s savings in a financial institution other than a bank.

Currently, only banks have the right to offer tax-free returns on child savings accounts.

“We want to break monopolies and strengthen competition,” Liberal party business spokesperson Linea Søgaard-Lidell told Ritzau.

At present, parents can withdraw child savings tax-free when the child is aged between 14 and 21, provided the account is held with a bank.

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Who spends the most money on New Year fireworks?

New Year in Denmark means the skies will be filled with fireworks, largely from private individuals who purchase their own supply and set them off just after midnight.

You’ll encounter the popular phenomenon wherever you are in the country tomorrow night, but figures from the Danish Chamber of Commerce show the highest amounts spent buying rockets and crackers are in East Jutland.

“Danes seem ready to spend a fair amount of money this year, with people in eastern Jutland and on Zealand expecting to spend the most,” the organisation’s sector director Bo Dalsgaard told Ritzau.

Households in eastern Jutland expect to spend an average of 280 kroner on fireworks for the final night of the year, compared to 110 kroner in Copenhagen and 220 kroner on the rest of Zealand.

The island of Funen is somewhere in the middle with an expected firework outlay of 190 kroner per household.