Two parliamentary select committees will join forces to hold a one-off evidence session on Thursday 24 March.
Transport committee chair Huw Merriman and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy committee chair Darren Jones will lead MPs in a joint session to examine options available to the government and the 800 who lost their jobs.
Among those invited to appear are P&O Ferries chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite and representatives from the company’s Dubai-based owners DP World.
Representative from the Insolvency Service, unions and employment law experts have also been invited.